History doesn’t determine our future, but it certainly informs it. Our own history is no exception. When it comes to how we spend our professional time, our CV presents the data in chronological order. But the space in-between the facts tells our fuller story – and is full of insights into our sources of joy in how we spend our time.

Coming up fast my birthday will be celebrated in the Covid-Period for the Second Time! Yup, the calendar has come around full-circle on this experience. It feels like last week (or also like 20 years ago) that we swapped birthday dinner reservations for a trip to...

January is billed as a fresh, new page. And for many of us that feels exciting and inviting. For me, January can feel a little bossy – a little demanding – like an email that arrives with all CAPS – What will I DO/BE/ACCOMPLISH this year!? This used to create a sense...

January of 2016 I started this business. I was so excited and so scared. If you told me then that I’d create a retreat in France that same year, I would have told you that you must not know me very well. I believed that I was way too cautious for such a big beginning!...

Recently, I was reminded of how much wisdom – about ourselves – is available to us – when we find a little quiet to hear ourselves better. I’m talking treasure troves of information covered up by fast-spinning life that creates a lot of static. New information – lying quietly dormant below the noisy surface. So how do we access that wisdom?

Clients right now are really focused on ways to make the most of what’s right in front of them. How to maximize a current project, get along better with a boss or co-worker (or family member!), motivate others, get more done, be more effective. Maybe it is a response to so much that is outside of our control that there’s a collective craving to tune-up some of the actions that we can wholly implement and control.  So, here are some actions I invite you to try. I bet you’ll see the return in every exchange.