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Have you ever considered that the paths to our goals are like obstacle courses? Around each turn on the path is another obstacle that we must figure out how to overcome in order to make it to the goal at the end. While it may not feel this way, it’s actually normal to encounter obstacles […]

Today is International Day of the Girl. Today we champion the empowerment of women and girls around the world because empowered girls grow up to be empowered women. While we have a long way to go when it comes to gender equality, we can also celebrate the fact that a new generation of women are

Lately, I’ve been coaching women who are overwhelmed with life. They can’t seem to transition between work and personal life and, when they do, they still find their minds filled with work. As a result, they are carrying work concerns into every part of their lives. An accumulation of carrying these burdens will almost always

As a child, I swam on a competitive swim team. We trained at a facility with a diving pool. This wasn’t your usual diving pool with a six or eight-foot-tall diving board. This was a deep pool with concrete diving platforms that were between 16 and 32 feet up in the air, like in the

“But mama, what if no one sits with me at lunch and I’m all alone,” my daughter tearfully asked the night before her first day of 8th grade at a new school. Suddenly, all the memories of my own feelings of loneliness from new starts came flooding back. And then, as I worked to look

One of the reasons we do not face our goals is because we shut down when we are faced with an unexpected barrier that we’re unsure how to handle. We become discouraged; we start making excuses; and we allow ourselves to back off of our original plan. While this is a human and natural tendency,

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty “ –Winston Churchill An optimist, when faced with a problem, tends to find the upside to the situation and starts figuring out ways to solve that problem, or ways to turn it around. A pessimist, however, immediately throws up his

You have to give some to get some. The old adage is usually applied to money but it is also true of time. We are always pressed for time or seem to owe time to others — from our bosses to our families. Time is such a valuable commodity and we need to make sure

I was leading a group coaching session a couple months ago with eight powerful, diverse women executives. The topic of discussion was how overwhelmed, beat, tired, and burned-out many of them are feeling due to the “too much to do / can’t stop now” syndrome. Are you one of those people who can’t seem to

Mary was at the pinnacle of her career. She had worked her way up in the cosmetic industry, building strong teams and learning all there was about marketing along the way. As a result of her dedication to growing as a leader, she became a marketing director in a prominent cosmetic company. The pressure of