New Year, Old Self

The first working Monday of a new year and a new decade. Forgive me for not asking you about your new year resolutions–personally, I think I woke up on January 1st being my jolly old self of the year before and it’s been a long time since I have made New Year’s resolutions. Change happens [...]

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How will you be mindful this week?

This weekend I went to a class on mindfulness– defined on Wikipedia as calm awareness of one’s body functions, feelings, content of consciousness, or consciousness itself.  I will add that mindfulness brings about a noticing of our own thoughts and emotions,  which is essential if we want to bring change of any kind into our lives. [...]

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Life in chapters

Thanks to a friend who is also a coach, I realized yesterday that the sadness about preparing the house for sale was not about detaching from the walls (after all, I have done that before!). What the sadness was telling me is that I was in transition–and declaring the end of an era. My friend [...]

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Twitter and Your Business Image at Midlife

So the March numbers for Facebook and Twitter are in–they are experiencing record growth! What is this phenomenon about? Will you join the bandwagon? What will you do with it? If you are participating in the fray, what is it doing for you? I don’t think ignoring technology is a wise move–it only makes you [...]

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Control and choice–in business and life.

Whether in your business or in your daily life (think in relation to others!), what is the difference between being in control and choosing? Aside from the obvious negative connotation usually associated with control, dig deeper. What distinguishes the two? Take the example of the housework that needs to get done around most homes. The [...]

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Social media for business…the old and the young

Thanks to Jill (see her cool blog at mysolis.com )or pointing out in a comment to my previous thoughts that the stuff of web 2.0 can be great for business. I completely agree with her! There are new opportunities for people to use Facebook, Twitter and the like to provide useful information–and, no, what you [...]

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More thoughts from a Facebook Newbie

So I have been doing more reading and thinking about the new “social media”…especially relevant after my recent arrival on Facebook!. According to a NYT story on the Austin Festival South By SouthWest, folks attending the most successful part of the festival are not musicians…they are people dealing in the new media!!! Says the NYT, [...]

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Using virtual reality to reconnect to the past

At the urging of my young Italian cousin, Luisa, I have recently joined FaceBook.   I have been on LinkedIn for a while, thinking of it as a professional network.   The function of LinkedIn has been to reassure me that as I face a huge transition in my life, there are people to whom [...]

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What is the value of experience?

Sometimes I wonder what is the value of experience. On a personal level, I think we find our own experiences mean something. What we have lived through in the past may guide in the present and prevent us from taking a similar path to the one we have taken before. After all, the definition of [...]

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What is holding us back?

Ok, so the drop dead dealine for filing the 2007 taxes is coming up in a month.  I have never before taken such a long time to file–especially since I have had all but a little piece of data since back in May! What has kept me from filing? And I fear I am not [...]

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