As we approach the transition into 2012 and recognize that the New Year is not far away, what projects come to mind? What would you like to accomplish? What is the metaphorical marathon you would like to run? This month and particularly on Dec 31, many people will be making a list of plans and of …
The Finish Line – Looking to the New Year & Your Life Read More »
This afternoon, I went to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NYC to experience an exhibit honoring Jim Henson: “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World.” It just about blew my head off it was so incredibly creative —the exhibit AND the materials: the drawings, doodles, notes, storyboards, Muppets bits, and film clips. After touring the …
Expose Yourself to Greatness, to Genius, to the Art You Love Read More »
As you think forward into the fall and on into 2012 and contemplate your work life on a day-to-day basis, what images come to mind? If the future looks a bit grey, a bit like a “conveyor belt day” of nonstop meetings, emails, deadlines, committees, more meetings, budgets, projections, plans, conference calls, errands, files, too …
The Prism Effect & Teamwork – Communicate, Connect, Come Alive Read More »
In my keynote presentation The Prism Effect, I speak about the importance of being acutely aware of what is present — of those elements that we might readily dismiss or those we might simply overlook. This applies to how we see our business…and it applies to how we see people. In The Prism Effect …
I woke up on 9-11-01 to the sound of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. My studio space is in lower Manhattan, and when I got out of bed, I had to squint a few times to see if what I was seeing was real. A gaping hole in the tower. Flames …
This was a week that went like a fire hose of intensely focused creative energy. Working on a book proposal, coaching clients in 1-on-1 settings and attending performances at night. On Friday, I read Hugh MacLeod’s superb book, Ignore Everybody. Couldn’t put it down. Holy moly that’s an incredible piece. The honesty of his voice …
Having the Courage to Trust Your Own Uncertain Convictions Read More »
I’m here in Warsaw, Poland and went tonight to see my long time friend, Gregg Goldston, in his exceptional one-man mime show, Louder Than Words. (You can see a video clip on that link.) Tonight’s event is part of an unbelievable international mime festival that happens each year, one that brings in some of the …
On Aug 2, 2011, I was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame. I am humbled and grateful for this tremendous honor. Below is the majority of my acceptance speech before 1,500 of my peers at the National Speakers Association National Convention in Anaheim. I am posting the speech here in the hopes that it …
Finding Home – Searching for the Right Profession Read More »
I’m here at the National Speakers Association National Convention Influence ’11 in Anaheim, California and there’s a theme that keeps coming up. Larry Winget spoke about it brilliantly today; Glenna Salsbury and Lou Heckler spoke about it in their superb keynotes; the one-of-a-kind Randy Gage Convention Chair raised it today; Terri Sjodin addressed it in …
Last week, on our honeymoon (!) on Vancouver Island, my husband and I visited an old rainforest where gigantic cedar trees—some a few hundred years old—stretched into the sky. It felt a bit like a Harry Potter movie, or something out of a J.R.R. Tolkein novel. The forest was magical…mystical…other-worldly. Along the paths, biologists and …
