It’s been a good few weeks with projects that make a difference. But often my work is filled with hills and valleys. Tons of work and then a lull and then slammed again. Last week I was swamped. Plus I’m supposed to be working on the book and supporting a couple of...
This week I have struggled with this email. What can I say about getting what you want that honors the moment and is helpful to a community of readers from across the country, across the political spectrum and at all levels of their careers? I come to this as a writer...
I really believe that 2020 or not, we can get what we want. But I don’t believe we get it alone. Not really ever but especially in 2020. It takes support to do the big thing. People who believe in you. People who question everything. People who can connect you....
Sometimes getting what you want means changing how you think. We all tend to suffer from “baby elephant syndrome.” Baby elephants, it seems, were traditionally trained by tying one of their front legs to a stake in the ground. No matter how hard they try they can’t...
2020 has been a strange year. Filled with lots of bad news from the pandemic to the economy to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and more. But it’s also been a year where people got married and had children and beat cancer. I don’t know about you but there...
It feels like this week has been a year long. It’s so tempting to hunker down and retreat. To contract. But I wonder if it is really a time to open up and expand. When we hunker down, we protect ourselves but we also lose connection, lose support, and lose the...
