by Margie | May 20, 2013 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Speak Bravely
While the media has been abuzz about Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a preemptive double mastectomy, I believe there is a bigger lesson to be drawn from what is a very brave decision by a courageous woman. And it has nothing to do with breast cancer. Whether you...
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 | Jan 16, 2012 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
Yesterday morning Al Jazeera TV network called me to do a live studio interview in their D.C. studio, via satellite from their Qatar headquarters. I jumped at it. Living in Washington D.C., and indeed America, has been packed with cool opportunities and new...
by Margie | Apr 19, 2011 | Live Passionately
I’ve always liked to think of myself as a “do it now” sort of person. But over the last week I’ve realized that actually, I’m sometimes use “busy-ness” as an excuse not to do the things I know I really should. Not the little...
by Margie | Feb 24, 2011 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Speak Bravely
Two weeks ago I said yes to a morning at trapeze school. Naively as it turned out. It was absolutely terrifying! But I jumped anyway. Five times in all. And while I wouldn’t race back to do it again, I’m glad I did it. Because hanging upside down 23 feet...