by Margie | Jan 4, 2010 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
Of course it doesn’t take the beginning of a new year to make a decision to start something new, make changes in how we are living our life or turn over a new leaf. We can do that any day of the year. But there is something about January 1st that makes it feel like a...
by Margie | Dec 23, 2009 | Live Passionately
On the eve of Christmas I just wanted to remind you to take a moment to reflect on what the Christmas holiday represents. It is a time to deepen the connection you share with family (near and far); to experience gratitude for your many blessings; to remember the...
by Margie | Dec 17, 2009 | Live Passionately
As I try to move down my big, long to-do list this week in preparation for all the merrymaking I will be doing in the weeks ahead, I’ve found myself feeling a bit overwhelmed. Okay, more than a bit. So I have stopped. Stopped to take a big deep breath, to look...
by Margie | Dec 4, 2009 | Build Resilience, Work Courageously
No doubt you haven’t escaped the Tiger Woods headlines this past week. As far as I’m concerned this isn’t a story about money. It isn’t a story about whether he broke the law. It isn’t even a story about badly managed PR. It’s a story about integrity. Or, sadly, the...
by Margie | Nov 15, 2009 | Build Resilience
The shootings at the military base in Fort Hood last week were tragic. There is no upside. Twelve good men and women now lie dead. Thirty others are still recovering from injuries. Countless more are still weighted down with incredible grief and shock and anger as...
by Margie | Nov 5, 2009 | Live Passionately
I’m heading to Florida tomorrow for a few days of sunshine. Friends who have a home in Key Largo have invited us down and we figured it would be a fun place to spend Halloween! The last time I was in the Florida Keys was nearly twenty years ago. I was backpacking...
by Margie | Oct 4, 2009 | Live Passionately, Speak Bravely
Every day we find ourselves having to work through issues that come up in our relationships. Whether it be a difficult boss who seems to be devoid of management skills or a colleague on a school committee who dominates conversation (getting everyone off track in the...
by Margie | Sep 23, 2009 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
Yesterday a friend emailed me to say that after years of trying to make it as a freelance writer she’s admitted defeat and is now trying to find a paying job. I replied to her that she needed to drop the ‘defeated’ talk and instead re-frame her...
by Margie | Sep 11, 2009 | Live Passionately
Ahhh…. my kids are all back in school (sigh) and I’m sitting here at my desk (in a blissfully quiet house) wondering how it got to be September already. As I looked at today’s date, September 11th, it struck me how much has changed over the last...
by Margie | Aug 26, 2009 | Live Passionately, Work Courageously
Today is Women’s Equality Day and in a few hours I’m off to speak to a Federal Department here in DC to celebrate the occasion. The topic: “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” I think leadership ties in beautifully with women’s equality, indeed...
