by Lynette | Sep 17, 2021
The Covid 19 pandemic has spawned another offshoot: loneliness. It wasn’t that we were not, as a nation, lonely before the virus struck. In 2017, former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called loneliness a public health “epidemic.” According to a 2018 report by the...
by Lynette | Sep 10, 2021
Anger seems to be everywhere these days, leaking out of normally friendly and placid people. It can be seen in their impatience: with a driver who slows down, in looking for directions, or with another person whose misunderstood request is judged to be stupid and not...
by Lynette | Sep 28, 2019
Confidence leads to courage. I used to believe that. Master a skill, figure out exactly what to say, and you will act. Trouble is, those skills take a long time to find and master. In the meantime, you are frozen in time. An incident at a conference a few years...
by Lynette | Jan 22, 2013
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”...
by Lynette | Jul 30, 2012
Personal note For many of us, the busy part of the year runs from September through May, and we spend the late summer gearing up for the flurry of activity that we are sure to encounter. In fact, it has already started, with requests coming in for me to speak at such...
by Lynette | Jul 23, 2012
Personal note In Minneapolis, as in much of the country, we are sweltering under an unprecedented heat wave. This Northern city, which was once a choice vacation spot for Southerners hoping to escape the heat in the South, has posted numerous temperatures in the high...