Plan Ahead

Plan Ahead

This Wednesday, April 16th is National Healthcare Decisions Day. Here’s something unique about me – I’m a big fan of advance directives. Sounds like a funny thing to get excited about but I sure am. Anything I can do to minimize confusion and chaos in the...
Walking Alongside Others

Walking Alongside Others

In all of our connected lives, we show our care in lots of ways. It’s built into our daily routines – a quick text to check-in, a small favor to help out a friend, an extra hug, jumping in to help out a colleague.  And then there are times when needs flare up...
Dialing our Strengths

Dialing our Strengths

We’ve all got natural talents. And we can’t help but use them. They are a part of our core. A reflex. Perhaps along the road of life, you have flagged some of yours and have honed them over time into outstanding superpowers or strengths. These Strengths are always...
Summer Garden

Summer Garden

Summer is when the gardens start to really go bananas – high production! Any visit to a local Farmers Market can confirm. So it’s fun when work life flourishes in the same way.  In my case, I spent the winter with new seeds of ideas buried safely deep down in...
Retirement Needs a Rebrand

Retirement Needs a Rebrand

With increasing frequency, I am hearing clients muse on what life will be like after they step out from the role or career that they’ve had for years. For ease of discussion, I guess we can say that they are each imagining ‘retirement’. That word, however, seems...
Eliminate Make-Work

Eliminate Make-Work

Are you familiar with the expression “Make-Work”? This is the stuff that really isn’t needed to be done – certainly not in the moment – yet we think it has to be done – and likely promptly. So, we do it – only to learn that it was not...