Values

What do you value?  What’s important to you?  How do you treat yourself?  Do you have those same standards when you deal with others? 10 Things I Value Time- They say talk is cheap until you talk to a lawyer.  Yet despite being an attorney by profession, I try...

Good Luck, Good Fortune and Opportunity

There’s a lot of traditions and superstitions that surround the holidays.  We’ve adopted several, including: -english crackers (mostly because they are just plain fun) -bayberry candles on Christmas eve and New year’s eve  This was a tradition we...

Lessons from Seurat- Do What You’re Good At

First example of Seurat Painting Photo Originally uploaded by OldOnliner Some of the most important pre-work I have ever done has been taking the StrengthFinder profile. Don Clifton, one of the founders of the Strength-based approach in psychology, came up with this...

When Personalization Backfires

A year ago November, my Grandma died. I have sent her flowers around the holidays for years, using a couple of different internet websites.  As a result, I get email prompts to buy her flowers around her birthday and now around Christmas.  My options are to...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

I wanted to take a moment here and say thank you for everyone who has come by my blog this year, who has taken the time to engage with me, and who has given me the gift of attention, which is one of the more rare commodities these days. It’s been a crazy year of...