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Leadership Transformation

DO YOU COUNT YOUR RAINBOWS OR THUNDERSTORMS?

I have a lot to be grateful for. The Northeast got hit hard by Tropical Storm Ida. She took us by surprise, especially since she had passed through several states before hitting New York. I had been at an all-day training event with clients and was racing to get home before the storm hit – and I did. I am grateful for that because the roads suddenly turned into rivers and flash floods overtook cars and their passengers. When I was driving to the gym two days later the roads were still littered with abandoned cars on the sides of …

Musings from An Evolving Mind

HOLIDAY STRESS – ONE UNUSUAL PRACTICE TO REDUCE IT

The holidays are upon us and along with decorating, shopping and baking cookies comes a tremendous amount of unwanted STRESS! It’s the most beautiful time of the year and we are filled with STRESS!!! Some of it is about getting everything done in the time we have to do it; but there is a much bigger, silent cause of stress going on that we may not even be aware of. We are all playing the “comparison game” in our minds. The game is going on all the time and it is absolutely exhausting. We are silently comparing ourselves to others …

Musings from An Evolving Mind

LISTENING TO YOUR “MIND CHATTER” IS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO

I have desperately needed new bedroom furniture for years, literally YEARS. I still had my childhood chest of drawers that followed me from Brooklyn to New York City to Los Angeles to Westchester. It was falling apart (although furniture was much better quality back then – it was my mother’s before it was mine!) and I had a few other pieces that had followed me around to both coasts. My bedroom didn’t feel like a place of soft luxury; it felt like it was just holding place for my stuff. It didn’t feel relaxing to go to bed; it just …

Musings from An Evolving Mind

I Would Like to THANK Roseanne Barr for her Horrid Tweet

I would like to thank Roseanne Barr for her horrid tweet.  Yes, I said THANK.  Because she provided a wonderful learning moment.  Hey kids, it’s all fun and games, until someone sabotages herself and hundreds of other people (who lost their jobs due to the cancellation of her hit show). Now Roseanne blamed Ambien, and Memorial Day (that was my favorite culprit of the “crime” at hand – yes, it was Memorial Day’s fault!).  And we, as bystanders blame her for the awful thing she did.  But what are we all doing?  PRACTICING JUDGEMENT & BIAS.  Eww. So, why did …

Musings from An Evolving Mind

65K (Texts) and a Bathtub Equal True Love.  Makes Perfect Sense to Me.

You may have been horrified reading about the Arizona woman who sent 65,000 texts to a man she had one date with and ended up being arrested after sitting around in his bathtub.  Sounds like she’s crazy, right?  Well….maybe we’ve all been there at some point.  And if we didn’t send 65,000 texts, maybe…just maybe we did think about someone we “loved” around 64,000 times or so?  I will confess to you that I have.  I admit it. #Boom, I said it.  I could have easily have been that woman….in my mind. I feel you judging me.  Well, let me …

Leadership Transformation

Today I Showed Up As a Leader…..When I Took My Car to the Dealership

I had been having an ongoing issue with my car and I took it into the dealership multiple times for the same issue.  I paid for a diagnostic test, where they found nothing wrong.  So I brought it in again, and they told me I needed a new battery – ok – bye-bye $500 bucks for battery and labor.  Guess what?  I still had the same issue. Agrrrrrh!!!!!!!  Women & Cars – can be so frustrating!!!!!  This is not my “thing” at all, so I am dependent on trusting someone else.  The “Wonder Woman” in me despises asking for help …

Musings from An Evolving Mind

You Can’t Celebrate Mother’s Day, if You Aren’t a Mother

Welp, another Mother’s Day is upon us, and another year, that I’m not a Mother.  Sometimes, it feels like Mother’s Day is here to taunt me, and remind me that my dreams are still at large. My grandmother passed away when my mother was only 5 years old.  One Mother’s Day when she was still a young child, she went to Sunday Mass where they were giving out white carnations to the children to give to their mothers. They gave my mother a carnation, and then an adult from the Church came and snatched it away from her saying, “You …