What Happens When You Expect the Wrong Thing
I just completed the second leg of a six-city speaking/workshop tour for a law firm. The associate attorneys and partners in front of whom I stood are smart and self-sufficient, with a healthy dose of logic, reasoning and risk aversion streaming through their...
Sometimes, You Need to Shift Your Relationship With Money
Until, Damon Young’s New York Times Op-Ed went viral last month, it’s likely you never heard of the term he coined: post-brokeness stress disorder. However, you might very well be able to relate to his story: that of going from not earning enough,...
Now Is the Perfect Time to Ask Yourself: How Am I Doing?
If you are a New Yorker and lived here during the years of Mayor Ed Koch, you know he’d frequently ask, “How am I doing?” It was his way of taking a pulse check of the “people” during his three terms and between election cycles. What a...
Do You Know What is the Underrated Trait of Bravery?
According to Merriam Webster, trust is defined as an, “assured reliance on the character, ability, strength or truth of someone or something.” Of all the people you trust; of all the things into which you put your trust, how much of that trust is directed...
Stand Up; Stand Out; This is What Bravery Needs From You
One of the things I’m enjoying about exploring this theme of everyday bravery is realizing a connection that now seems so obvious. Since last week, I’ve endeavored to do as I suggested you do, which was to pay more attention and notice the ways in which I...
In Life and Business, What is Bravery…Really?
What comes to mind when you think of bravery? We have a cultural tendency to think of bravery on a grand scale; to look at it through the lens of magnanimous acts of raw strength and fearlessness where you don’t think before you act. You just do. You react....
What Happens When Your Message Encounters a Backlash?
However you consume your news (television, radio, online), it’s hard to tune in and not a get a vivid, often visual, example of a “message” gone wrong. Just ask: United; Tesla; Kanye; Starbucks; H&M; Nordstrom; Facebook; Danielle LaPorte; Uber;...
Do You Know How to Sell Your Message?
Are you one of those people who enjoys and embraces the sales process? Or, do you despise it and find it uncomfortable because it conjures up images of the sleazy used-car salesman? Today, I am in the former camp. But, that wasn’t always the case, which, at the...
What Do You Want to Be Known For?
No, I don’t mean this as a legacy, after death type of question. Rather, I mean it as a current, present day one. What do you want to be known for? If you’ve ever given yourself permission to take the time to answer this question, then you know that these...
