I know everyone is doing a lot of reflecting on 2018 and I’ve been doing a lot of planning for the next year. I thought I’d share a little bit of what I’ve learned in this last year. Best Year Ever for my business So that’s awesome. But it actually came more out of necessity […]
14 years ago I was laid off from my job. I was an engineer and I will never forget that meeting where they told us that our whole department was being eliminated. It was a total surprised and I felt like I had been punched in the gut. It was definitely scary but I […]
So I got a message from the universe the other day. Actually it was a message I had heard before but in a much different context. It was a message I got from the nurse during the birth of my 2nd son. “Your baby needs you to push now.” I tell the story in this […]
Why did you start your business? What do you believe in? What do you stand for? These were some of the questions I was recently wrestling with at a recent meeting of the National Speakers Association Colorado Chapter. The topic was how to stand out from the crowd and it was facilitated by Ava Diamond […]
I remember the first time I found out that I wasn’t the only crazy one. I thought that other entrepreneurs had everything all together and that once I “made it”, I would also have it together and know exactly what to do next. But I was talking to Johnny B Truant at SXSW about 7 […]
So I did my 2nd triathlon. Which is kind of shocking since my first triathlon was so horrible that I had to blog about it. But I couldn’t let the story end there. I signed up for my 2nd one after my friend Sandra sent me an e-mail. Peer pressure in Boulder is weird. Come […]
So I signed up for a triathlon. Before you go jumping to conclusions, signing up was not the dumbest thing. Lots of people do triathlons. I love running, I love biking, and I’m a decent swimmer. So why not? The problem was I signed up for the wrong triathlon. A horribly terrible yet very scenic […]
You might think that promises to other people are more important but you need to respect your own promises, too. Here are my thoughts on how you can be more successful at keeping those promises. I also have a different take on “SMART” goals – watch the video to find out. Here are my […]