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

Jan22
dreamstime_17411581 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. Just ask anyone in our country or abroad, who doesn’t have the luxury of choosing his or her own existence becaus...
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“What’s Right With You? What’s Right With the World?” How to instantly transform your impact.

Jan08
What's right? “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 tendency and, might I add, a habit that would serve us to break. The question, “What’s right with you?” helps people open...
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DIY. Seriously? Really?

Dec27
Happiness & Success copy 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 the way of her own success. We also developed a 3-step action plan for her to turn things around and get to the next level. The connection betw...
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Confessions of a Cyber-Challenged Woman…or (as my mother told me) God Helps Those Who Help Themselves

Dec06
Confessions of a cyber challenged 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 the blog police. I know, I know, those of us who are serious about growing our businesses must c...
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Courage is a decision we make every day.

Nov13
the-cowardly-lion-the-wizard-of-oz-4109278-550-456 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 frame of mind; it’s a way of being in the world where the intention behind our actions points in a ...
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