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In this blog series, I pose questions to challenge old ways of thinking and provide stories to give you a broader view of your life and career. I share what informs and inspires me as a way to help elevate your perspective as you move toward the life you’ve imagined. 
Want Your Business to Thrive? Answer These 3 Questions.
“Find out what you do best; Then find out how you can pay most of your attention to doing it; Get someone to pay you for having paid most of your attention to mastering that one thing.” - Genius Turner Are you solving the right problems? Do you know what questions to...
Obstacle or Opportunity? Why Perspective is Everything in Leadership.
What happens when you face an obstacle? And how do you lead when your team hits a roadblock? You might think the role of a great leader is to create and execute a perfect plan. And while there’s some truth to that, life rarely plays along. Having a vision is a good...
Freedom, Courage and The Wall
"Those who won our independence . . . valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." - Lois D. Brandeis What do you think of the 4th of July? I’m a history nerd and wars fascinate...
What Harry Potter’s Grindlylows Can Teach You About Leadership and Moving Past Uncertainty
"Don't believe everything you think." - Unknown If you are a fan of the Harry Potter series, you may remember the Grindlylows. They are mythical water creatures that like to trap their prey in the seaweed at the bottom of the ocean (Harry encounters them in Book 4,...
How Leaders and Business Owners Know When To Say Yes
“Even when a need exists and we are well qualified to meet it, we are not necessarily called to respond to it . . . To be doing what is good can be the biggest obstacle to doing something even better.”
-Suzanne Farnham
The Problem With Rushing Growth
I love that I live in a part of the world where the changing of the seasons is so striking. I love watching new plants come up in spring and seeing them progress – tiny buds blooming into daffodils, crocus, and tulips. The flowering redbuds and crab apple trees make...
Change is Like a Hurricane
I’m a bit of a storm junky. I loved watching the storms roll in on the farm where I grew up. When rainstorms approached, there would be this eerie calm where not a breath seemed to exist. The air felt heavy and dense, almost electric. There’d be a cold rush of wind...
Finding Clarity From Change
Do these pictures look like the same mountain to you? On a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest, I visited Mount St. Helens. It's an active volcano and the last eruption was in May of 1980. I was a child when it happened and can remember the images on TV of the smoke...
What the NFL Can Teach You About Leadership and How to Achieve Your Business Goals
As a business owner, you want to win. You set goals to provide direction and alignment for what a “win” looks like for your team. Those goals give everyone something to aim towards. That's what being a good leader looks like, right? But how can you achieve these...