Are You Choosing or Deciding? It’s Your Choice.

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.

“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?

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

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.

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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