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On The Rise: 10 Healthy Habits To Boost Your Happiness
In daily life, we each have our ‘happiness reference point’. Think of the contentment spectrum as a city skyscraper: The closer your elevator is to the penthouse office, the happier you are…
Energy Management: What's In YOUR Toolbox?
Who wouldn’t want to learn to live their life more seamlessly? It’s clear that gracefully bridging the gap between personal life and career can allow us to be present for clients and staff while…
Think Of Laura, Part 2: A Positive Look At Personal Time & Energy Management
Last week I discussed the dynamics of time and energy management through the lens of career, exploring the topics of prioritizing, making the best of appointment cancellations, and…
Think Of Laura, Part 1: A Positive Look At Time & Energy Management In Your Career
Late last month, I reported to you on a special takeaway from our collaborative dinner event featuring an interview with author Laura Vanderkam. The Meaning Of Busy is the article I wrote…
The Meaning Of Busy: How Many Hours Do You Truly Work?
Last month, half-a-dozen lucky DRIVEN Professional women joined me in attending an intimate dinner event with one of my favorite authors, Laura Vanderkam. Laura is a productivity expert and…
Discipline = Self Love: 3 Good Habits Away From A Happier You
Did you realize that one prominent dictionary defines the verb “discipline” as “to train (someone) to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience”? My…
Career Roadblocks: Professional Women Can Break Down Their Barriers
Take a moment to think about this: “Be Kind, for, Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Great Personal Battle”. This wise outlook was communicated to me ten years ago, and I’ve been attempting to…
Two Years Out: A Brief Reflection Upon Life As An Entrepreneur
This past March, I began to put the wheels into motion for WAC’s Spring Community Event. I assumed it would be a fully joyful process, likened to practicing a hobby rather than painfully…
Working Women’s Woes: Gain Career Perspective to Tame Your Busy Week
We’re women professionals, which by definition immerses us into a particularly challenging workplace setting. After answering to our bosses, managing the people who report to us, navigating…
Response, Not Reaction: Overseeing The Conversion of Fear to Trust
The Old Outlook: You can prepare, and prepare, and prepare, and then hopefully mitigate problems as they occur. The New Outlook: You can prepare, but you have the wisdom and the life experience…
Are You A “Morning Person”, or Just An Early Riser?
There’s one thing that each of us knows for sure: whether or not we are a morning person. It’s also probably safe to say that it’s tricky to become a morning person if we’re not one already. If this…
My 2015 Word of the Year is….Focus!
Self-Compassion. It was my 2014 Word of the Year, and it was timely. It had been the necessary prescription to get me through the infancy of my new business and the community that formed…
Them Ol’ Sunday Blues: Overcoming Your Dread of the Week Ahead
website picToday’s guest blogger Dr Stacey Lessans has some optimistic insight on that one night of the week that seems a bit darker than the others for many of us: Sunday. Read on to learn her…
Satellite Strategies: Tips on Working from Home Productively
Is the modern workplace outdated? Well, consider that in the 21st century more business is done in a global economy, shattering the old 9 to 5 workday model. Factor in the increasing time and expense…
Lightening the Load: 6 Tips for Shrinking That Boulder to a Backpack
The original book Boundaries by Cloud and Townsend offers an analogy that is dense with insight on something we all deal with. On page 33, the authors explore the difference between Burden…
Discover Your Inner Superwoman: Start Your “Week In Review”
“I’m NOT a lazy bum! I DO make great strides each week! I’m NOT taking one step forward and two steps back in all areas of endeavor!” That’s the sound of the New Me echoing through my brain. I, like…
Productivity Repossessed: The Benefits of A “Hard Stop” Mentality
It’s likely that the most valuable lesson I learned during my four years at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration relates to workplace productivity. Ask anyone who has worked for or with me, and…
Small Blessings: A Meditation on One’s Own Good Fortune
Yesterday morning was different than most. I needed to drag myself out of bed, despite the gorgeous sky poking at my eyelids through my lakefront bedroom window. I wasn’t filled with my typical motivation…
Keynote Cornerstones: 13 Life Lessons for Young Professional Women to Live By
In preparing for my upcoming keynote address, I soberly contemplated what insights to share with a group of impressive young women about the road ahead, their place in the world, and…
Retooling My Brain, Part Two: Turning Fear into Confidence
My second area of focus for mind reset is my fear factor. I have been living in a constant state of low frequency fear for as long as I can remember. When I analyzed this underlying deep-seeded depletion of energy and distraction, I realized I was fearful for…