Are You Choosing or Deciding? It’s Your Choice.
February 22, 2011 by Nancy
Filed under Human Potential, Impact, Success, Values, WomenThink
Prefer to listen? An MP3 download and Transcription are available at the end of this post. Someone recently asked me why I spend so much time talking about choice. Why it’s such a big deal to me. My answer? There’s no bigger deal than having the privilege of choosing the direction of one’s own life. [...]
“What’s Right With You? What’s Right With the World?” How to instantly transform your impact.
January 26, 2011 by Nancy
Filed under Human Potential, Impact, Success, Values
“What’s right with you?” is one of my favorite Solomonisms. It’s a different kind of question, isn’t it? And, once asked, it never fails to stop a person in their tracks. Why? Because as optimistic and upbeat as we’d like to think we are, we’re used to people finding fault before favor. It’s a cultural [...]
DIY. Seriously? Really?
November 29, 2010 by Nancy
Filed under Human Potential, Success, Values
Recently I spoke with a woman who was looking for a coach to help her get promoted. She’d worked in this company for fourteen years and hadn’t been promoted in the last twelve. Ugh! We had a very productive strategy session during which I helped her discover the ways in which she was standing in [...]
Confessions of a Cyber-Challenged Woman…or (as my mother told me) God Helps Those Who Help Themselves
January 11, 2010 by Nancy
Filed under Current Affairs, Human Potential, Success, Work / Career
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 [...]
Courage is a decision we make every day.
November 5, 2009 by Nancy
Filed under Human Potential, Impact, Leadership, Making a Difference, Success, Values
To be more precise, it’s a decision we make every moment. There are actually two kinds of courage: instinctive and deliberate. Instinctive actions are, well, instinctive….. like rescuing a child from a burning building or helping a disabled person who’s confronted by a mugger. Deliberate courage, on the other hand, is an attitude or a [...]

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