Diversion

Fabulously productive day, coaching, interviewing and writing. Sometimes when a Game Plan column feels like it channels right through me, I come away feeling exhilarated but mentally exhausted. So, at 10 p.m., with the final sentence in place, I had one wish. Please,...

Shuttling

Two days before I turned 50, while vacationing in Rancho Mirage, Calif., I was looking to get from one end of the sprawling spa and golf resort to the other on a little golf cart shuttle. As I approached, the driver was loading in two couples plus their golf clubs and...

Think versatile and kind

I love to achieve. Love it. But only the past few years have I really started to understand the importance of relaxing in that sometimes and not being rigid about it. Simultaneously, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about our interactions and relationships with...

Quotable

Love this from today’s Writer’s Almanac: Once, asked about his writing routine, E.L. Doctorow said: “Here’s how it goes: I’m up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it’s lunchtime. Then maybe...

Fear be gone

I spent last week in Rancho Mirage, Calif. at a golf and spa resort. What a blessing and rejuvenating getaway. Part of the reason I went was because I thought it would be fun to turn 50 there, in a complete change of environment. As I shored up my plans for the week,...