by Margie | May 8, 2009 | Live Passionately
Last Friday I flew in on a red eye flight from L.A. to D.C. I had a meeting that morning and when I mentioned I’d just come in from California (which was on a Swine Flu Emergency Health Alert at the time) the person I was speaking to said, sort of jokingly but not...
by Margie | May 6, 2009 | Build Resilience, Speak Bravely
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not anti-guns. . . I grew up with them! Going rabbit shooting on my parents’ farm in rural Australia was a regular (and favorite) pastime (sorry rabbit lovers — that was just the way it was growing up in the Aussie bush). But last week I...
by Margie | May 1, 2009 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Speak Bravely
Earlier this week I was speaking to a woman who had just gone through an acrimonious divorce. She shared how she felt completely bruised and battered by the process of ending her 8 year marriage and that while she knew that the future was her own making, she felt...
by Margie | Apr 6, 2009 | Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
Do you ever deal with difficult people who seem to be unnecessarily hostile, petty or offensive? Ever find yourself wanting to dish out your own snide remark or act in a way that you know is childish? Go on, admit it, of course you do! We all find ourselves, on...
by Margie | Mar 20, 2009 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
A year ago today I awoke to a phone call telling me that my brother Frank had been in a serious motor bike accident; that, among other injuries, his spine had been very badly damaged and that it was extremely unlikely he would ever walk again. Needless to say the last...
by Margie | Feb 24, 2009 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
What an exciting week I’ve had! If you missed the interview on the Today Show Tuesday morning (what, you had something more important to do?! 😉 ) then you can watch it here now: It runs about 7 minutes which is a VERY long interview for prime-time TV. Given...
by Margie | Feb 23, 2009 | Live Passionately
Just this morning a poll on CNN reported that 3 out of every 4 Americans currently feel afraid about the state of the economy and what it means for them. There’s no doubt about it, we live in turbulent times which are causing many people to feed afraid. Which...
by Margie | Feb 10, 2009 | Build Resilience
Living on the other side of the globe in the U.S., my deepest condolences and heart-felt prayers go out to all the many families who have lost their homes, and worse, their loved ones in the devastating bush fires that have swept my home state of Victoria the last few...
by Margie | Feb 1, 2009 | Live Passionately
A few years back a woman called Sarah Armstrong, who has since become a friend, made the bold decision to try to make a difference for the people living in the poorest nation on earth, Sierra Leone. Sarah got on a plane and traveled around the country and as she went,...
by Margie | Jan 29, 2009 | Live Passionately, Work Courageously
Last week whilst talking with someone about the economy, the possibility of them being laid off and how they thought it was a good time to take a change in career direction came up. As we talked about what they needed to do to make it a successful transition in a...
