Fears and Vulnerabilities

Often, when a client shares with me their doubts and insecurities—an intimate and difficult thing to share—I have to marvel at how similar these fears are to other clients I’ve met with.  “You’re the third person this week to say something like that,” I said once,...

HAPPINESS: Bah Humbug!

I overheard someone telling another person in line recently that there is no such thing as happiness.  “It’s not a state of being,” they went on, “it’s a passing emotion like any other – like a breeze in the wind, here one moment, gone the next.” How...

The Problem With You People

  Painting copyright Denny Dent and available at Denny Dent’s Art Brokerage Page “You know what the problem is with you people? You only see what you expect to see!” That was the line that totally gripped me. Like a bolt of lightning it hit. WOW!!!...

Vision Statement or Values Statement?

  What kind of business is your vision statement building? Image credit Frédéric BISSON via flickr under the creative commons license. Most companies have a classic vision statement. A mission. A concise definition of who they are and what they’re after. It’s a...

We're Asking the Wrong Question!

Photo courtesy Chris Piascik via Flickr, unchanged, under CC License What do you want to do when you grow up?  It’s the quintessential question that adults feel compelled to ask kids and it happened again last week at an event I attended with my wife and two...

Growth = Success

Recently, a client shared with me a story about his work. He’d been hired as the music director of a fledgling program at a university. Under his tutelage and amazing direction, the new program grew by leaps and bounds up to a recent show which had completely sold...