How Do You Maintain Your Emotional Balance?
I’m in Paris at a conference this week. I was a keynote speaker, which is lovely for my ego. One of the participants asked me how long I’d been a…
Read moreWhat Are You Sentimental About?
My town is busy planning and discussing and planning and discussing (yes, continue for several more recursions) the plans for the new high school. We need a new high school…
Read moreWhere Do You Have Redundancy?
I was thinking about resilience and redundancy a lot this week. We had a big weekend last week (we gained a son-in-law) so this week was a week of what…
Read moreWho Is in Your Corner?
It’s Olympics time. And yes, it’s time again for “the thrill of victory and agony of defeat.” I watched that agony as an ice dancing couple fell during their performance. One…
Read moreWhen Do You Suffer from FEAR?
I was talking with father recently about my writing workshops. I’m finishing the last touches on the first one and hope to finally make it available for registration any day…
Read moreWhat’s Your (Beer) Emergency?
I was in Prague last week (Agile Prague and a client). One of the nice folks at the client explained that beer in Prague Is inexpensive. For years, in The…
Read moreWhat Is Your Obligation?
At the Agile 2017 conference last week, I volunteered for “Agile Therapy,” a chance to discuss a topic of your choice for 20 minutes with an experienced coach. I was…
Read moreWhat’s on Your Life Map?
I was coaching a client recently, and he said something fascinating. “That wasn’t on my life map. I hadn’t even thought of it.” I asked him more questions, and he…
Read moreWhat Do You Need to Unlearn?
I read Jerry Weinberg’s Advice to New Graduates and thought I would ask this question about unlearning. I had to unlearn many things when I started to work. Here are some…
Read moreWhen Do You Take a Break?
I started a new regimen of PT (physical therapy) to manage my vertigo a little better. Yesterday, I did a ton of leg/balance work. I did too much—I was exhausted.…
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