Happiness at work & in life

Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: “What You Are About To See Is Intense…”

I met Sean Stephenson at a National Speaker’s Association workshop that I attended a few months ago. The workshop was focused on how to increase your sales so I was really focused on this aspect of my business during those few days. Sean was a participant in the workshop (not a leader or speaker) but I started  paying close attention to his statements whenever  he shared because his examples and learning from his business were so impactful. One of […]

Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: Play 2

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato In the Team Advantage coaching process that I use with teams and have seen transform teams in just the short 2-day kick off meeting (that is only the start), we set it up for play from the moment they walk in the room. There are brightly colored toys on the tables, fun music is playing, and there are only […]

Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: Uncovering Your internalGPS

“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.” – Jean Huston A couple years ago, when I was facilitating a leadership program for young women at a University in China, it quickly became apparent that I had a lot of work to do to convince the students that they had many of their answers inside of them. They so desperately wanted me to tell them exactly what they were supposed to do. One of the most impactful […]

Thursday Thoughts On Thriving: Cultivating Wonder & Summer Fun

One of the best ways to thrive in your work and life is to cultivate your sense of childlike wonder. One of the best ways to cultivate your childlike wonder is to take a fun vacation or at least plan some time for fun, laughing and play in your schedule.  Riding every “high thrill” roller coaster in a Six Flags amusement park may not be your idea of fun, but for me it ranks at the top. Last week, […]

Thursday Thoughts On Thriving: Connections

Thriving is all about connections; the more you cultivate connecting with the people around you the more you will thrive. I am writing this in Buffalo, NY, where I am reconnecting with people that I have not seen in years. Last night my sister and I had dinner with two women who we used to call step-sisters. We all had a great time living together each summer in a small town, Perry, here in western NY. We share fun […]

Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: Daring Greatly For Innovation, Creativity & Change

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change….Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.” – Brene Brown Think about a time when you made a significant shift. You created something new or did something courageous that took you down a different path or failed horribly at it.  You never felt the same again. Take a minute and see that time clearly before you read any further. It was probably one of the most difficult times […]

Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: How Do You Thrive Online?

How do you increase your level of thriving with on-line tools to serve you, rather than suck your time away? How much time do you spend on line? If you are anything like me, I suspect it is a lot. There is a philosophical debate about whether all this time with the internet is good or bad for us. I really like Howard Rheingold’s answer: “It depends on how much we know about how to use these media effectively, intelligently, mindfully, […]

Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: Choosing Your Path to Success

“I am inspired by what you are doing!” and “I don’t understand what you are doing!” are both reactions to my choice of path to leave (or more recently turn down) a large corporate job and run my own business. The path of the corporate job and the path of entrepreneur both have their positives and negatives and there is no one right path. It is so important to listen to your internalGPS and take the path that is […]

Thursday Thoughts On Thriving: Broken Link

In this post just published: Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: Choice and Motivation, I had a broken link to the Harvard Business Review article, “Increase Your Team’s Motivation Five Fold” by Scott Keller. It is such a well written article and  so important for thriving that I took the risk of bothering you with another e-mail and re-publishing with the correct link. Take a moment to click on the link here (or I also linked it on the article name). […]

Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: How Many Thoughts Per Day Go into My internalGPS? 1

My first thought in seeing this outside my front door, “Oh what a mess…” A split second later I thought, “But the purple color is so nice…” and then my mind rambled on with back and forth thoughts on whether it was a mess or beautiful. Why am I sharing this? Because your mind produces thousands of thoughts per day and those thoughts of yours can serve you or play havoc with your internalGPS.  I went looking for some […]