Are you open to feedback?
The Coach’s Corner Newsletter #78 Have you noticed that when you’re growing, creating or moving up the ladder you’re actually eager to get feedback? How is this message coming across? What did you think of the presentation I delivered? How does this color look on the wall? But after you’ve painted the room or published […]
Here’s what happens when you’re kind
The Coach’s Corner Newsletter #41 When I shared with my oldest granddaughter, here for the end of spring break, that I would be taking some time to write this newsletter she asked me what I was going to write about. As I threw out a few topics from my notes, she nodded her head without […]
Wait…what?
The Coach’s Corner Newsletter #30 These paphiopedilums, also known as slipper orchids for their defined pouches, just bloomed over the holidays and we’ve been enjoying their amazing beauty every single day. Once the blooms of this variety of orchids is finished, it will take another year for a spike to emerge where the blooming cycle will […]
How to disagree better
When Utah Governor Spencer Cox launched the “Disagree Better” initiative with the National Governors Association, he acknowledged the bitterness between Republicans and Democrats. The driving force of this concept is that to preserve our humanity and solve the problems ahead of us, we must learn to disagree better. You never convince anyone by attacking them. […]
We’ve seen it and it is evil
Each hour that passes, we are hearing more details of the atrocities committed by Hamas fighters who surprised Israelis in their homes, at a festival, at a bus stop and in the street Saturday morning and slaughtered more than 12-hundred men, women, children and babies savagely and indiscriminately. In an address from the White House, […]
When people pleasing leads to burnout
I’ve often described myself as a recovering people pleaser – that person who wants to make sure others are getting what they need right away, saying yes to anything immediately and offering unsolicited items/ideas/ways for you to change that really do work much better, if you’d only just do what I suggest! Since I’m now in recovery, seriously, I have […]