What Do You Want?

Imagine, for a moment, that you’re hungry. Your tummy is growling, a headache is galloping toward you, your mood is having more ups and downs than a carnival roller coaster, and the idea of eating is eclipsing all other thoughts.
Imagine, for a moment, that you race into the kitchen, throw open the fridge and devour [...]

The Most Humiliating Thing I’ve Ever Done!

Actually, I’ve done so many humiliating things that it’s hard to keep track of them all. But this doozy tops the humiliate-her chart!
My main motive for sharing the single most humiliating experience of my entire professional
career is this…
Having already completely and publicly mortified myself, I might as well make certain it wasn’t a wasted experience.  [...]

Today Is The Best Day Ever

Me: “Hey, how’re you doing today?”
Him: “Great. Just great. I woke up today and, boy, does that beat the hell out of the alternative.” LOL.
This was a recurrent conversation I had over many years with a mentor of mine, Ross Anderson. Hearing his words never failed to get my attention. Every single time I’d [...]

SHRINK TO FIT: Playing Small Isn’t Playing at All

Here comes some tough love:
You are never, ever, ever, going to fit in! And that is “a cause for celebration, not an apology”. You will never make anyone completely happy: that is not your job, it is theirs. Therefore, the only person who can absolutely, positively, be happy with who you are, with what you [...]

FEAR: The number one reason you don’t have what you want

There are a multitude of reasons we fail to turn our brilliant ideas, our intellectual capital into actionable items and bottom line results.
The two biggies are, predictably, fear (90%) and timing (10%). Everyone experiences fear. “Getting It Done” people have the identical fears as the “Talking it to Death” folks. And the quantity of fear [...]

Confessions of a Cyber-Challenged Woman…or (as my mother told me) God Helps Those Who Help Themselves

If the question is:
Where have you been, Nancy?
Then the answer is:
“Cibernating” (as in hibernating in cyberspace).

For all of you who’ve wondered where I disappeared to the past three weeks (yikes!) I want to first thank you for missing me. I missed you too. Next, I want to respectfully request that you reframe from contacting [...]

You Were Born to Have Impact!

The rumor is true…. I did disappear for the past three weeks. I’ve been cybernating (as in hibernating in cyberland). In no time at all I went from cyber klutz to cyber savvy. For those of you who know me: It’s been transformational.
I have a few more finishing touches to put on my website in [...]

It Takes The Pedal To Get You To The Medal

(continued from yesterday)
Barb was already in coaching when she came to the realization that her career trajectory needed to change course. She’d been wandering through her organization like a five year old in a puddle, yet didn’t understand why she wasn’t getting anywhere.
I told her, “If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you [...]

Neutral Is A Color, Not A Way Of Life.

“I’m stuck.”
“I can’t seem to get things moving.”
‘I’m in the exact same place I was last year at this time.”
“My business isn’t growing as fast I’d like it to.”
Sound familiar? Was I channeling you? Or someone you know?
I usually get a frantic phone call or an urgent email when an individual has reached the outer [...]

High-Five Yourself™: What You Need to Know to Get From Here to There

They’re smart, they’re passionate, they’re savvy; they’re the women of Microsoft. And for 75 minutes this month, they were my audience.
I’d like to take you on a short journey with me and share what made this event so special to me, and why it’s the subject of all of my blogs this week.
If we roll [...]

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