Motivation

Is it okay if I brag a little bit? I just won an award. I won the 2019 Nova Writes Joyce Barkhouse Award, which recognizes excellence in the category of writing for children. It’s for one of my [...]

Reflect on the areas that are most important to you, create a plan and take purposeful action.   These last few weeks have been a bit different for me. I got back from a family vacation to [...]

Here’s what I love about Halloween. There’s an expectation that everyone gets something they want. It’s like a parade of positive feedback. And all you have to do is put a bit of thought into a [...]

Big projects take a lot of energy. To succeed, you need a clear vision. You need to be flexible. And you need to ensure those around you are aligned with where you are going. One of my big [...]

  My Aunt Barb, who has had a successful career as a teacher, minister and author, gave me some good advice when I started my leadership coaching practice almost 15 years ago.She said for [...]

NAIL IT!® Success Stories In my first career I worked in public relations. In my PR role I wrote a lot of news releases. There’s a formula for writing a news release that gets read and it starts [...]

Has your mother ever told you to mind your Ps and Qs? Honestly, I never knew what she was talking about. Be good? I did a little research on the origin of the phrase and my favorite explanation [...]

Lately, the graphic images of families being completely uprooted, young lives being taken too soon and the desperation to create some sort of ‘new normal’ is hard to watch. Like many, we wonder [...]

I remember as a child waiting patiently for my cousin, Matthew, to clean the bugs out of the pool so we could all go swimming. He had a net attached to a pole and was making short, quick sweeps [...]

When you think about getting caught in an undercurrent, what comes to mind? For me, I’m reminded of a beach vacation in the Caribbean when I got caught in a nasty churn of ocean and sand that [...]