Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve had a couple of close acquaintances that have gone through some tough things publicly. One was convicted of a crime that he owned up to, while another has been accused of a crime that will go through the legal process and we’ll see how it all plays out. […]
Leadership
There’s an interesting misconception that I see occurring all the time. I try to warn people against it, but no one ever really listens, and then on the back end I see people with hurt feelings and confusion. by Melissa via Flickr I’m talking about people you work with and determine that they’re your friends. […]
Whenever I do any kind of coaching, I usually try to ask questions to get people to give me answers that I figure they know already. It doesn’t always work that way, but for the most part it works pretty well. I start with that statement because there’s a sharp divide among coaches as to […]
A few weeks ago I decided to take someone up on an offer of helping me in figuring out how to market myself. During the second visit, we began a conversation that made me do some serious thinking on the back end. We were talking about things I could and couldn’t do, and I mentioned […]
Within my last post I talked briefly about planning one’s activities so that you can free your mind of things you have to do and just get them done. I realized today that telling people to plan in that fashion hits a lot of deaf ears, because it seems planning is a lost art. Laura […]

