November 7, 2024 PIVOT In each of our lives, there will come a time (perhaps more than one) when you must pivot – make a huge change from the life you’ve been living. Getting married, divorced, having children, changing jobs, retiring – those are the biggies. Smaller pivots can include starting a new diet, joining a new gym, taking up a new hobby, following a new band, adopting a pet. All pivots, large and small, are opportunities to reinvent who you are, even if it’s just a minor adjustment. Each adjustment is a chance for you to get closer to becoming the person you…
May 14, 2024 Moves Like Swagger First question – is “swagger” good or bad? The answer, of course, is both, like many things in life. Swagger is a behavior that is confident, strong, even defiant. However, swagger can easily slip over the ever-moving line (depending upon who is doing the judging) to arrogant, insolent, or aggressive. Do you have swagger? What is the source of your swagger? Are you particularly competent in your field? Are you incredibly athletic and competitive? Do you have great beauty or charm? Have you earned or inherited prodigious assets? Whatever the cause, can we agree that we should keep our swagger…
December 15, 2023 A MAN I’LL NEVER BE Being happy and content in one’s own skin, at work, at home and with family, should be a goal for everyone. It may be harder than it sounds, though. Do you always feel like people think they know who you really are? Do you have different “personas” for different areas of your life? Do people at work view you one way, and your family another? I don’t think there is any right or wrong answer necessarily, unless you feel conflicted or dishonest, like the writer of this Boston song “A Man I’ll Never Be.” A Man I’ll Never Be Lyrics…