Ah, utopia

GAME PLAN: I’ve got it all figured out. Don’t you? My bank account is overflowing. My body is never creaky. Not a speck of dust in my home. I floss daily. And oh, the sex. My happiness arches like a rainbow over my perfect, polished life. Take your problems walking....

What to do with a love of ___ ?

After orchestrating a family gathering at my mother’s a few days before Christmas and then inviting people over for my birthday last weekend, I realized the planning and execution of those things pumped up my adrenaline a bit. I took it as a sign I should be...

Alternative to passion?

A big part of being in the life coaching profession is dealing with comments about what a joke it is. I suppose we’re still educating folks on that and certainly there are some in our profession — as in all lines of work — who give all of us a bad...

Passion plays out in our politics

What a delight it was to wait until after the 2008 presidential election results were in to file this Game Plan column. It is about the passion that was inspired by Barack Obama from coast to coast and how that resonates on so many levels with this life coach.

Choosing passion over pay

In today’s Game Plan column, it’s all about What Meaningful Work Looks Like. I enjoyed talking to Laura Radensky, a social worker who has worked with the elderly at Jewish Home Lifecare in Manhattan for nearly 20 years.