by Margie | May 23, 2013 | Live Passionately, Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
I’ve come across lots of fabulous research about the psychology of risk-taking over the last two years as I was writing Stop Playing Safe. As I shared in the interview above, we human beings are wired to be risk averse. In other words, we find it much...
by Margie | May 20, 2013 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Speak Bravely
While the media has been abuzz about Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a preemptive double mastectomy, I believe there is a bigger lesson to be drawn from what is a very brave decision by a courageous woman. And it has nothing to do with breast cancer. Whether you...
by Margie | May 14, 2013 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Work Courageously
As my friend Michelle drove me to the airport in Washington, D.C. this morning (headed for home Down Under… have made it to LAX so far!), she asked me if I thought my trip was successful. I told her yes. I’ve met hundreds of wonderful people at speaking events...
by Margie | May 10, 2013 | Live Passionately
Greetings from Washington D.C. on Day #10 of my whirlwind US book tour. What an exciting trip it’s been, topped off by meeting Katie Couric this morning while taping an interview for Washington Business Report. I’ve wanted to meet her for a long time so...
by Margie | May 3, 2013 | Live Passionately
A big hello from NYC! Stop #1 on my U.S. book tour! This morning, I had the ‘special treat’ of starting my day with a run through Central Park. I love Central Park any time of year but right now the Cherry Blossom trees are in full bloom so it was...
by Margie | Apr 22, 2013 | Live Passionately, Speak Bravely
Having been stretched very thin last week, I decided over the weekend that I needed to go back and read chapter 9 of my first book Find Your Courage. It’s title: The Courage to Say No! If you haven’t read Find Your Courage (slap your wrists!), let me give you a...
by Margie | Apr 21, 2013 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
I arrived in Sydney this afternoon to do a segment on the national talk-show Sunrise. I’m usually put up at the same hotel but this time, I elected to stay at a place I’d never been to before. Not knowing Sydney particularly well, I was a bit disoriented...
by Margie | Apr 16, 2013 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
Two of my friends ran in this years Boston marathon. Only one got to finish. I can only imagine the myriad of emotions they and the thousands of other runners and spectators who were affected directly by the blasts must have felt Shock. Horror. Fear. Relief. Anger. ...
by Margie | Apr 11, 2013 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Work Courageously
A friend recently shared with me how her husband fell into yearlong depression after he was laid off from his finance job during the global economic meltdown in late 2008. He’d worked hard all his life, thrived on the pressures and challenges of his work, and enjoyed...
by Margie | Apr 8, 2013 | Live Passionately
Today the world lost one of the most iconic, formidable and courageous leaders of the 20th Century. There are many things the world came to admire about Margaret Thatcher, the daughter of a shopkeeper whose sense of purpose to make a difference paved her way...
