It’s as Clear as Mud

It’s as Clear as Mud

You have a great new plan to expand your business, so you share your plan with your Leadership Team and off they go to implement it.  Six months later your organization is in disarray and you can’t figure out what happened! You shared your plan, asked if anyone had...
Flag Football, 3 year olds and business

Flag Football, 3 year olds and business

Saturday morning we watched 3 & 4 year olds play flag football.  I’m not even sure you can call it playing football. It was amazing to watch their attitudes and attention spans.  They would get caught up in running and trying to get the player with the ball.  For...
Overwhelm Tactics

Overwhelm Tactics

I know when I find myself in overwhelm it’s because there is so much information swirling around in my head.  One of the ways I’ve found to deal with this overload is to grab a stack of “Dump Cards” (2X2 square stickies) a pen or permanent marker and a poster board. ...
A Week at the Beach

A Week at the Beach

I just got back from a week at the beach.  What a great time, reading, lying on the beach, playing in water, walking on the board walk, ice cream and crabs. It was great to do nothing work related, I made a conscious decision to not think about work, to unplug and let...
What stories are you telling yourself?

What stories are you telling yourself?

For the last month I’ve been looking at what was going on in my life, really it was more like what wasn’t going on in my life. I finally realized there were all these old stories running through my mind that I knew were not true.  The problem was they had been running...
Looking Where You’re Going

Looking Where You’re Going

Remember when you were a kid and learned to ride a bike and you were told look where you’re going? How hard and scary it was to pick your head up and look at where you wanted to go and not watch your front wheel to make sure it was going straight.  Every sports coach...