by Margie | Aug 22, 2016 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
Do not waste time focusing on the gifts or good luck of others. Focus only on making the most of your own. One of my favorite images from the Olympics was of South African Chad Le Clos in the 200m butterfly final glancing across to his arch rival Michael Phelps in the...
by Margie | Jul 14, 2016 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Work Courageously
ONCE UPON A TIME, about one hundred years ago, a partially deaf four year old kid came home from school with a note in his pocket from his teacher. It read: “Your Tommy is too stupid to learn. We cannot have him at our school.” His mother decided to teach...
by Margie | Jul 1, 2016 | Brave Parenting, Build Resilience, Live Passionately
When our guide came by our tent shortly after 3 AM to wake us up to begin the climb up Mt Kilimanjaro I’d already been awake for some time. The sleeping bags we’d rented for our week hiking to the rooftop of Africa weren’t quite up to the sub-zero temperatures so...
by Margie | May 30, 2016 | Live Passionately, Women Rising
Let’s face it, life will never be exactly as you’d like it to be. Or not for long anyway. There will always be things you’d like to be different. To have less on your plate or more certainty about your future. To have fewer bills to pay or more support from your...
by Margie | May 17, 2016 | Latest Thoughts, Live Passionately, Women Rising
“Most people live in a restricted circle of their potential.” William James I’ll never forget where I was the day that a mental image change the direction of my life. It was March 2002 and I was laying on a beach south of Cancun, Mexico, doing a...
