by Margie | Oct 23, 2011 | Live Passionately, Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
I ran into a friend last weekend. Let’s call her Suzie. Suzie shared with me she was very recently passed over for a promotion that she felt she had clearly been the most well placed to get. When she found out that it had gone to a guy with far less experience...
by Margie | Oct 17, 2011 | Live Passionately, Work Courageously
One evening last week a girlfriend dropped in for an impromptu visit and said she needed a glass of wine. Being the good friend I am I dutifully shared a bottle with her. Which was all fine until the next morning when I realized that I’d forgotten to set my...
by Margie | Oct 7, 2011 | Live Passionately
Ten years ago today I moved to America. I arrived with my husband Andrew, my young broad of children (aged 3, 2 and 8 weeks) and my mum, who had generously offered to help me that first month on the ground. It took 33 hours to fly from Melbourne (via Sydney,...
by Margie | Sep 27, 2011 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
This last Sunday I attended the funeral of the father of my dear friend Ellie. It was a beautiful funeral. Very sad, but incredibly beautiful. During the funeral service numerous people got up to speak about the life of Seyed Ahmad Kalantar, a man I had only met once...
by Margie | Sep 11, 2011 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
Ten years ago today we witnessed extraordinary bravery and heroism by people who would have told you they were neither brave nor heroic. What better way to honor their lives than to live our own with greater courage. I remember watching a young woman, ashen faced, on...
by Margie | Sep 9, 2011 | Live Passionately, Work Courageously
“Assumptions are the death of possibilities.” James Mapes Humans can’t fly to the moon. The human body can’t run a mile in under 4 minutes. Women are too emotional to be leaders. The sun revolves around the earth (which is flat.) Telephones are...
by Margie | Aug 24, 2011 | Live Passionately
Yesterday afternoon just after I’d sat down to begin writing this newsletter, I heard a rumble. My initial thought was that there must besomeone (a really BIG someone) walking on the floor above me. But then, as the rumble continued and the entire house began to...
by Margie | Aug 10, 2011 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
From oppression in Syria to famine in Somalia, from the UK riots to the US Credit Rating, from high unemployment to low housing prices to drawn out wars claiming the lives of the finest of young men and women – there’s no doubt about it, we are...
by Margie | Jul 22, 2011 | Live Passionately, Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
So often we make assumptions about other people that are simply untrue. We think they are “above” us; that they don’t like us; or that they look down on us. All of these thoughts are based on assumptions that we don’t validate, and all of these...
by Margie | Jun 24, 2011 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Work Courageously
Every day I doubt myself. And every day I have to remind myself that my doubts are not who I am, but just my fear trying to keep me thinking small and playing safe. While there are many days I don’t have to wrestle for very long with doubt or fear or misgivings...
