Finding your rhythm
While working out recently and noticing that my pace picks up significantly depending on the music I’m blasting into my ears, I started thinking about the bigger message of how to apply that principle in other areas of life. It’s really about setting yourself up for success. Hence, today’s Game Plan column called What Gets You Motivated? was born.
Cornball alert
Keep going.
–Harriet Tubman
Michelle Obama’s speech was wonderful. Hillary Clinton’s speech was phenomenal.
I am proud to be a woman.
Brilliant ideas
Earlier in the week, the same day I had a root canal, I found out there’s a book out there that has the same premise as the one I’m working on. So today’s Game Plan begins like this: “I thought a root canal was the most painful thing that would occur in my life last Monday, but then I got a swift kick in the teeth.”
Read the rest here: Setback or Springboard? You Decide.
Cool things my friends are doing
My dear friend Erin Weed is one of those people you continue to marvel at as she builds her Girls Fight Back business with care and a persistent message. She has a brand new DVD out and in her blog post about it reveals a very personal experience.
So inspiring …
The dream business
What a pleasure it was to interview the Hon. Michael A. Corriero and Rich Franchella, both of whom play roles in Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York. Corriero, a former New York Supreme Court judge, is the new executive director, while Franchella’s company is a corporate sponsor of the annual Race For The Kids. Both of these men have Italian-American roots and I related to their stories of hard work ethic and being the first in the family to go to college.
Today’s Game Plan column is all about how they are in The Business of Making Dreams Come True.
Summer sizzle
Business is brisk and it’s August! I am filled with enthusiasm and gratitude for all that’s happening and for the wonderfully creative people I keep attracting into my life.
Possibilities abound.
Daily dose
Loved this last paragraph in Michiko Kakutani’s piece on Jon Stewart in today’s New York Times. While Stewart is describing what their process on The Daily Show feels like, to me he is also describing what it feels like to watch the show on any given day. Pure release.
In fact, Mr. Stewart regards comedy as a kind of catharsis machine, a therapeutic filter for grappling with upsetting issues. “What’s nice to us about the relentlessness of the show,” he said, “is you know you’re going to get that release no matter what, every night, Monday through Thursday. Like pizza, it may not be the best pizza you’ve ever had, but it’s still pizza, man, and you get to have it every night. It’s a wonderful feeling to have this toxin in your body in the morning, that little cup of sadness, and feel by 7 or 7:30 that night, you’ve released it in sweat equity and can move on to the next day.”
The art of preservation
When I went to the Louise Bourgeois exhibit at the Guggenheim last week, I knew I’d wind up writing a Game Plan column about the experience. Her art is so provocative and she’s still creating at age 96.
The idea really came together after I read New York magazine later that same day on the subway and found this: Viagra helps women on antidepressants reach orgasm. When I later put the brochure about Bourgeois on my desk and then the factoid I’d ripped out of the magazine on top of it, I realized they were related for me.
And so I came up with this: Self-Expression vs. Self-Medicating.
Holiday
Booked a much-deserved California getaway today. Yeeha.
I can already feel myself relaxing.
The relaxation biz
It is rare to find someone who combines the gifts required to do bodywork and the business savvy to make it profitable. Michele Merhib, the founder of Elements Therapeutic Massage, is one of those people. Today’s Game Plan column is about her formula for Turning Relaxation into a Business.
Michele owns three franchises in Colorado, but there are now 104 franchises sold. For more info, check out the company here.
