Creative core

I just had new business cards made and they bear the new tagline for my life coaching business:Connecting you to your creative coreEvery day I like it more, as I see how perfectly it reflects the people I coach and the goals they strive to meet. At their creative core...

Oliver’s twist

Saw life coach Martha Beck speak a few weeks ago. She quoted from a favorite poem of hers by Mary Oliver:Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?Ahhhhhhhhh …

High place

I’ve been thinking about how over the course of our lives we sometimes put people on pedestals. It’s such a bad idea.The person on the pedestal has no way to go but down. The person who holds someone in that high place is setting himself up for...

Walton’s mountain

Talk about TV I never thought I’d find fascinating. A show on CNBC about … drumroll, please … Wal-Mart. It’s called The Age of Wal-Mart and it covers the innovation, the success and the negative headlines of this massive corporation.First I...

Tuned in

Seeing Barbra Streisand Monday night is still washing over me. It is pretty surreal to sit in Madison Square Garden and hear that voice reverberating from the sound system.I’ve been thinking about (and listening to) my favorite Streisand song, Don’t Rain...