The room is dark, but I know there are 400 HR Professionals out there waiting to be inspired. As I step on stage, I realize they have gathered here to find out ways they can improve retention in their corporations. And after the turnover recently experienced, they want something they can use NOW. … Read more »
Posts Tagged: Growth
Do Now for Change Later
Weather changes on a dime, but often we are fortunate enough to have a forecast of what is coming. Life is not so predictable. Often, change comes out of nowhere. I posted a blog on Motivational Speakers Review that may help you think about what you can be doing NOW that will help later…… Read more »
Don’t Sprint the Marathon: Positive Changes take Pacing
26.2 You’ve probably seen the sticker, and chances are you know someone who actually earned the sticker. 26.2 This number represents the amount of miles run to complete a marathon. It takes the average marathon runner 4 ½ hours to do it. As a runner… well, a slogger (slow + jogger)… my sticker would only… Read more »
A Public Apology
To the young man in front of me on the escalator down to Track 14… I’m so sorry I nearly knocked you down… click here to read the rest of the story *RELATE TO DEFLATE*
You Are Safe
The Park Ranger pointed North, “Two miles up the path you will see the trail branch off up to The Waterfall. The final mile up you will notice a slight increase in difficulty.” (Slight increase was more than a slight understatement.) After a grueling hour scrambling over rocks and roots we reach the top of… Read more »
What’s for Lunch?
Walking home the first day of school, Becket stopped and slumped on the edge of the curb. “I don’t like it here.” *Oh, that sound you just heard like thunder ripping through the mountains during a summer storm? Yeah, that was my heart breaking.* As is my wont, I probed for more info. “Lunchtime is… Read more »
Deeply Moved
After several months of intense denial, several weeks of sorting, culling and packing, and several days of actually “doing the thing” – I can say, officially, that Becket and I have relocated to Millburn, New Jersey. We have spent the past two weeks settling-in and sight-seeing. We are tourists in our new town, and thoroughly… Read more »
Crazy for You
We stood on the corner of 53rd and Columbus, after a super swell summer night of inner-city rambling. “Ok, well… Night!” Ross tossed me his Leading Man grin and turned to head back to his Hell’s Kitchen apartment. “Night then.” I said through a tight “everything-is-just-fine” grin. I turned north toward my studio shoebox on… Read more »
Flow with the Go
Biology Teacher. That is actually what I wrote on my college applications. Biology? Teacher? What? While I can’t even remember why I wrote that (ode to my cute high school physics teacher perhaps) it makes me smile, because I know the person who wrote that wanted to be a BIOLOGY TEACHER dammit! And she is… Read more »
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