Nothing says “I love you” like Chocolate! Champagne! Roses! But let’s face it, unless you’re The Bachelor(ette), there are only so many days a year that you can spend handing out roses and murmuring sweet nothings to the one you (hope to) love. Life, in other words, is not all Valentine’s Day. Usually it’s work, Read More
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Don’t Break the Streak (Because Little Steps Have a Big Impact)
Long ago, in another life, I took a writing class with author Heather Lewis. Heather was a brilliant novelist and teacher, but the most important thing she taught me wasn’t about literary technique. It was how to build a streak of successes. A Streak Can Be Positive or Negative Often—whether you’re writing a novel (as Read More
Feedback? Talk to Someone, Not Everyone
Punishing Everybody Growing up, were you ever punished for something that someone else did? The chances are pretty good that you were; and if so, you may still feel a little twinge of resentment when you think about how unfair it was to get blamed for something you didn’t do. There are at least two Read More
“Don’t Look Up”: How to Talk about the End of the World
NOTE: If you plan to see Don’t Look Up on Netflix, but haven’t done it yet…stop reading now, before the spoilers begin, and come back after you’ve watched the final credits! A Film about How We Communicate Since you’ve seen the movie, you know that (a) Kate Dibiasky has discovered a new comet that (b) Read More
Is Confidence Really That Important for Great Public Speaking?
Most of my clients want to be more confident. Why not? I’d like to be more confident. (Does anyone ever feel they have enough self-confidence?) But too often, the expectation is that if I was just more confident, I wouldn’t have to work so hard or go through so much emotional struggle to ace this Read More