Secrets, Rumr, Whisper – oh Silicon Valley how I love the life lessons you provide in the quest for the next multi-billion dollar payout on a tool that does little to nothing to help us be better humans. Today the popular app to launch is “anonymish” social networking. The tools we have today that require…
Who doesn’t love getting something for free – especially on a Monday! Send me a note (either here through the blog or on Facebook) and I will send you a code for a free copy of ’til now from iBooks. I have 10 codes for the first ten notes – I can’t wait to hear from…
I live in the Bay Area so the big news in the paper (yes I read the paper) and on the radio (I would assume also TV but not a media source I turn to) is another politician accused of corruption. This involves taking bribes and arms trading. It sounds bad, it looks bad, odds…
Note before reading: this is not about baseball, that is a different issue for a different day (probably never). This is about children and what happens when they hurt. I have on more than one occasion in my parenting life been described as acting like a mother bear when someone has come between my young…
Years ago I was sitting with my husband in a crowded restaurant. We were across the table from each other, chatting and enjoying our meal when from beside us a late thirty-something, early forty-something man with a copious amount of hair escaping the unbuttoned front of his shirt leaned forward and said loudly to his…
This is a metaphor for life, also it is a practical tip. Perhaps you would have figured out the metaphor but I am going to make it really, really obvious, I am also hoping that the superficial story here is absorbed; it is what we could call a win-win of advice. Use your signals in…
What can I say? Yes, I get snobby and superior. I don’t mean to and I don’t mean to judge but I end up doing it anyway, I guess just like everyone (though that is not intended to be an excuse, just an acceptance). So the other night at book group dinner we were busy…
When I used to think of humility I thought of shame, embarrassment, and fear. For me being humble meant admitting that I was wrong, and being wrong was a terrible thing growing up; it meant you could never be right since you had made a mistake. Being humbled meant that someone put you in your…
“Practice” is an interesting word; in one sense it refers to something that we are actually doing (e.g. my consulting practice) and in another sense it refers to repeated exercise to improve a skill. As I have said before I think that there are things we can practice and get better at, and things that…
There are a lot of things in life that if you practice you get better at (remember that whole 10,000 hours thing); playing a musical instrument, shooting hoops, drilling for a spelling test. The more you practice the better you get. In some ways that is true of any habit or attitude: if you practice…
Faith Works 