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Can you change the past?
Personal note Last Saturday I gathered, along with 150 other alumnae, at an event staged by my alma mater, Stanford University. Stanford Connects, brought as a road show to Minneapolis, featured micro lectures and seminars by noted professors; President Hennessy...
The Power of “Yet”
Personal note I first wrote this article in July 15, 2011. The concept is just as true now as it was then. If we all followed this advice, our happiness would increase. As a writer, I believe in the power of words. Words can heal and bring hope. They can also destroy...
What if your life was like a bar of chocolate?
Personal note This week I am working from my California office, which has allowed me to spend a special birthday celebration with my sister. Our birthdays are one week apart, and the whole family gathered for one of those noisy, exhausting, but joyous celebrations. ...
Who’s writing your life script?
Personal note A delightful Easter brunch with a dear friend made up for the fact that it was cold as heck, even on the last day of March, when last year at this time the daffodils were up. But Spring will surely come, as it always does; there will be daffodils, and...
What the heck is virtual learning?
Personal note As my life and business continue to expand, I meet more and more people who don’t seem to be taking advantage of all the good things available to them. Why? Because they don’t know quite what to expect, and are wary of trying something new and...
Are you suffering from “Brain Buzz”?
Personal note I spent last Saturday at a seminar, “Stress: The Silent Killer,” at which I delivered “The Angina Monologue” as well as listening to other skilled experts. Each of us had different information to add to the growing body of knowledge about our bodies, our...
Are you afraid of success … or is it something else?
Personal note I am most delighted in my home office on a day like today, when the entire landscape seems to be covered with whipped cream. Yes, we had snow starting last night and continuing today, leaving me in splendid solitude with a computer and a head buzzing...
How can I soar with eagles when I work with turkeys?
Personal note The birds outside my bedroom are getting noisier every morning, and the increasing number of rabbit tracks across my yard tell me they are venturing out more and more. Meteorological Spring is here, and with it comes more hope for transformation in our...
Are you bothered by public speaking?
Personal note Last Saturday was my first ever “Confident Introvert” seminar, and I’m still pleased, proud, and a little exhausted from that event. Like many opening nights, it was successful, but with small glitches: people having difficulty registering, a Power Point...
What does confidence have to do with your heart?
Personal note In keeping with the fact that February is National Heart Month, I am presenting another article that deals with cardiac disease. But it does more than that; it deals with daily life and how well we live it. To be slightly (but chronically) anxious is not...
The Confident Introvert Networker
Personal Note Some years ago I had a close friend whose personality can only be described as extravagant. When she entered a room, she did it with great style, capturing everyone’s attention and keeping that attention for most of the event. She favored large, showy...
Be Careful, It’s Your Heart: Warning Signs of a Heart Attack
Personal note This week’s article is a repeat of an article I do every year in February, National Heart Month. Over the past few years, I have done countless presentations of my talk, now called “The Angina Monologue,” during which I have not only delivered...
Do you know where your Will Power has gone?
Personal note January is moving ahead at an incredibly exciting pace for me; I kicked off the year by doing a half-day seminar, “Be Your Own Best Caretaker in 2013” for the City of St. Louis Park, which included their employees plus many representatives from...
Make good habits easy!
Personal note 2013 has started with a bang for me: a CBS radio interview about my The Confident Introvert book with Roshini Rajkumar (hear the podcast at www.wcco.com/roshini); then speaking engagements this month that will include: “Stress, the Silent Killer”...
Little Habits Can Make Big Changes
Personal note New Year’s Eve 2012 was a peak experience for me. I flew to San Francisco to attend the New Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball, where my dear friend, the legendary pianist Peter Mintun, was conducting his orchestra for the dancing. The ball was held in beautiful...
Deep Peace to You
Personal note We’re heading into what I consider to be the most exciting time of year. It’s as if the year builds to a climax; as if we have been climbing a high hill for months and are just about to reach the top. Soon we will be able to coast downhill into the...
The “Happiest Time of Year”?
Personal note This has been the week I finally got to launch my new book, The Confident Introvert. As I (and a lot of writers) have found out, it’s not the writing that is so hard; it’s all the details, such as getting the sources exactly right, that bog you down....
Healthful Holiday Hints
Personal note Yesterday I presented “The Angina Monologue” at the Midwest Worksite Wellness Conference in St. Paul. Notice the word “wellness” in the title; this conference was about finding ways to help people live their healthiest lives rather than dealing with...
Do introverts have more stress?
Well, yes and no.In our extrovert-oriented culture, being an introvert is not easy. While extroverts thrive on outer stimulation, deriving their energy from it, introverts need quiet time to let the energy tanks fill up – alone. Introverts think deeply before...
Are you determined not to age?
We live in a youth-oriented society, where the fastest growing group, the Baby Boomers, learned, “Never trust anyone over thirty.” They’ve probably extended that limit by now; I haven’t checked recently to see what it is. 60? 70? We see ads everywhere for products and...
Build Your Happiness
Personal note Autumn is indeed the time for quickening pulses and the sensation that something new and exciting is about to happen. Well, it is. In fact, many things are going to be happening in the next few weeks. Next week I go to Toronto to meet with my coach, Pat...