What if…

Perspective flip: think of people you avoid; now imagine they are fundamental to you in some way. What would you do differently with them?
What if the boss you gossip about at lunch and make fun of had some secret knowledge that could help you get the thing you desire the most?
What if the young, shy [...]

Ageism – The Last Acceptable form of Discrimination

Because I’ve been focusing on coaching for Millennial managers, I have been wading into the seamy side of intergenerational issues.
There was an iconic saying of the 60’s, “never trust anyone over 30″. Today, the very generation that coined that phrase is long past the age they once distrusted. They are in the position of [...]

Quitting to succeed

Seth Godin, author of Tribes and Small is the New Big, has another book out – The Dip.
An important and audacious premise of The Dip is that quitting is sometimes the very best action to take to get what we want. Godin says, “we fail when we get distracted by tasks we don’t have the [...]

10 Strategies Science Tells Us Make Us Happy

I’ve been reading some of the books in the canon of Positive Psychology lately to find out what science has to say about what we can do to get happy:
 The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
 What You Can Change . . . and What You Can’t*: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement  by Martin Seligman
and Finding Flow  by [...]