Regardless of when you travelled through childhood, it’s likely you were told several times to “Mind your own business.” I often wondered WHY I needed to do that?! After all, I’m naturally curious about people. The details of their lives matter to me. I love it when I can help
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What do terms like “mindfulness,” “synergy,” “storytelling,” “intrapreneur,” and “return on relationship” all have in common? I mean besides sharing a spot in the top 5 workplace buzzwords sometime over the last 3 years. With some friendly modification, they could just as easily be used in your home or around the dinner
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Is yours a masterpiece marriage — one that your children and others should imitate? Although there are many definitions and originations for what warrants the title “masterpiece,” there’s something all masterful works seem to have in common: they are often imitated. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but how
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What’s the story with your marriage? Even the most connected couples get stuck in unhealthy routines in relating to each other and have to reevaluate their daily choices. At what point can it begin to feel more like a bad dream from which you both want to wake? If you prefer a
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It seems fairy tales rarely have anything to do with real-life relationships. Even though these stories typically include tragic beginnings, major misfortune, and shady characters, our expectations of these tales are that everything comes right in the end. Just as long as the heroes (obviously built to overcome adversity) “show up,”
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When it comes to your marriage…what kind of story are you hoping to tell? We all have a narrative unfolding in our most significant relationships. Are your storylines aimed at Greek tragedy, fairytale endings, or masterpiece classics? If your goal is a healthy relationship, let the story with your marriage be an ongoing
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When it comes to parenting, are you relationship-building or mess-making? If you’re like most of us, the answer is “both,” depending on the time of day. But you and your child are writing a story together. It’s a story about your relationship, full of challenging circumstances, unlikely heroes and surprise endings. As
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Let’s face it. There’s no way to avoid making a mess out of your parenting some of the time. But what about most of the time? Do you have a daily strategy? Mistakes are expected, but the most damaging ones can be avoided if you have a goal in mind
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At work, are you masterfully developing the most valuable people skill all great employers need? Or are you creating a messy wake of damage from a very common workplace mistake? Making mistakes on the job comes with the territory of innovative thinking and discovery of better ways to accomplish company
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Today, you are either working on a mess or a masterpiece. Both of these outcomes start with mistakes. So what’s the real difference? I submit that messes are mistakes you never bother to clean up. But masterpieces can be built from both successes and the mistakes you’ve put right. After all, isn’t
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Imagine a set of blueprints in your hands. If you knew that following these blueprints would lead you to a sense of fulfillment and discovery of purpose, would you wait long to unroll them? We all know intuitively that today can be a big problem for tomorrow. Or it can
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How can someone possibly leave the world better off than they found it? If you’ve ever contemplated that idea, it’s likely that one of your next thoughts is about whether that’s even possible. It’s such a high mark. And if it is actually possible, does it take an entire lifetime
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