Lessons in Personal Mastery

Oh What a Year!

  What a year! I got married to my BigLifeLove, in France. I traveled to 7 countries and 10 US cities, for work and personal exploration. I welcomed a new job, with new friends and colleagues included. I managed the… Read more >

Stop Making the Same Mistakes, Make New Ones

We all make mistakes. Some are small, minor mistakes. Some have a larger impact on our lives….BUT we all make them. It’s what we do with them that’s important. Mistakes are how we grow, how change happens, how we learn…. Read more >

Zen and Personal Mastery

As you can tell by my absence (if anyone noticed), I haven’t written much. Last year, the posts that made it were coaxed out of me by shear will.  This year, my interest in writing just collapsed, until lately. I… Read more >

Megan

“Just because something has happened every day for the last 10 years, doesn’t mean it has to be that way today”…. This summer, very unexpectedly, arrived a wedding invitation from a long lost, very dear friend. At some point because… Read more >

Paris! It’s a Big Race. Go Run

I’ve been asked 100+ times since that day “how did the Paris Marathon go?” If you haven’t been following along, last May decided to run the Paris Marathon on April 12, 2015. I do stupid things like this every year… Read more >

France

When my dad passed in 1996, he and I were both reading A Year in Provence. I could imagine along with the words on the pages the smell of the lavender, the earthy taste of the cheese, the layers of… Read more >

Merry-Go-Round

I recently started a new job, with a new company. For some this is not a big deal. For me it was leaving a home of 18+ years. It was time. I was ready. It’s still change. I love my… Read more >

Inferior

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” – Eleanor Roosevelt Let’s assume for a moment that everyone we work with, come into contact with, engage with regularly come with the best intent. In my world, I work… Read more >

Happy New Year??

New Year Day  – January 1st – Why do we place so much value on this day? It’s not a magic day,  it’s just a day. But we give it all this power and put a lot of pressure on… Read more >

Finding my mojo…

Recently, my mojo has been missing.  It’s been a rough last quarter of the year, and the last month of the year was harder than I was prepared to handle. While I don’t want to belabor it, I think there… Read more >