by Margie | Dec 18, 2012 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
The tragedy of so many innocent lives lost so brutally last Friday in Newtown Connecticut has dimmed the festive spirit for many people this week. Trying to comprehend the mind of someone who could commit such a barbaric act is impossible. Trying to imagine the raw...
by Margie | Dec 14, 2012 | Live Passionately, Speak Bravely
As I write this now my heart goes out to the parents and families of those killed so mercilessly in Connecticut yesterday. Such a tragic and brutal waste of beautiful lives; such sorrow to consume so many hearts and homes this Christmas and for years to come. It also...
by Margie | Nov 27, 2012 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Work Courageously
It’s easy to find excuses not to put in effort and show up. But to create the rewarding life you want, you have to commit to showing up and pressing on, even when you don’t feel like it, even when it’s cold outside, even when you aren’t making the progress...
by Margie | Nov 25, 2012 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
It’s official: Your future is uncertain! Just pick up today’s paper: New York to sink beneath sea (or so declares the headline in todays New York Times). Continued economic instability. Companies restructuring and sending jobs off shore. Arghhh…...
by Margie | Oct 29, 2012 | Live Passionately
(Reprinted from my CourageWorks column in Forbes magazine) While many of our fears are valid, many of them actually stifle our happiness and success. In an increasingly fearful world, knowing what to fear (and what not to fear) is increasingly important. Moving down...
by Margie | Oct 12, 2012 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
If you’re problems aren’t going away, chances are it’s because you aren’t diagnosing them correctly. Getting to the root cause of what’s wrong in your life (and in the world at large) takes more than smart answers. It takes wise...
by Margie | Sep 21, 2012 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
I’ve been pretty stretched the last few months between finishing my new book, speaking a conferences across the globe, and juggling (and dropping) the many balls of every busy mother. So earlier this week, when I was asked to do a segment on The Morning Show...
by Margie | Sep 17, 2012 | Live Passionately, Work Courageously
Last week I did a flying three day trip from Australia to the US to do a keynote at a conference. Tomorrow I head to Sydney to do a segment on a daily talk show. Next week I take my kids to Nepal for two weeks. But not before about one hundred and one other things....
by Margie | Sep 16, 2012 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Work Courageously
Staying on path toward your goals takes motivation… by the truckload. Getting it can be easy. Keeping it, well… not so much. The word itself comes from the Latin word movere – “to move.” But “moving forward” when you would rather plant...
by Margie | Aug 5, 2012 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Work Courageously
Sometimes disappointment can hit with an intensity that can knock us down hard. When it does, we have to take the time to look for the gift our disappointment holds, and to be sure we unwrap it. Doing so sets us up to succeed in the game of life that much more. As I...
