One of my favorite Julia Roberts movies is Runaway Bride. Maggie embarks on a journey of self discovery after realizing she's been reinventing herself over and over, to please others. Her first step is discovering how she like her eggs done. I've recently been asked what...
If life gives you lemons, drink tequila (or make lemonade if tequila is not your thing). Right? But there is only so much tequila or lemonade you can drink before you have to face the facts, acknowledge the situation and move on. The great Nelson...
It's something that has been in my head-space for as long as I can remember but it's finally, finally become a totally heart-space acceptance for me. Some things are just not in my control. Some things I will never understand in this life. They never...
Last week the department I work in had a social team building event at a nearby indoor go-karting track. I'm not really the go-karting type. I've tried it before and I felt so terribly out of control that I hated every minute of it. It...
Some days I think to myself, How did I get to a point where there are so many more things on my to do list than lines on the page? It's because I say 'yes', often substituted with 'okay', too often and don't say 'no' enough. ...
Once upon a time, we had dinner parties until after midnight and slept in until after eight the next morning to find many more empty bottles of wine than we thought we'd consumed. Once upon a time, we went on long runs five times a...
If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. This is something that has been said over and over again in my workplace since I joined the corporate world over 10 years ago and probably for many decades before that. Our environment and the...
It has been a particularly bad week at work. A number of tight deadlines all happening at once, causing very early mornings after very late nights, with too much coffee and chocolate to get me through. The nature of my line of work is that...
We live in a time when people are judged, ranked and assessed on what they have, what they do or what they’ve done. Our high performance corporate environments encourage us to always be better than the person next to us, exceed expectations and over deliver...
There are few things more liberating than turning up the volume on a happy sing-along song and dancing around crazily. After all, as the well-known saying goes - dance like no one is watching. Meredith and Christina did it in Grey’s Anatomy and I’ve recently...