Archive for the Life Purpose

On the way to the Houston airport, the taxi driver told me that he didn’t know until a few years ago that Washington, DC was not in Washington State.
I would not have judged this man to be uneducated or even inarticulate. He was a well-dressed, white, 57-year-old American man born and raised in Houston. If [...]

I heard Tori Murden McClure interviewed on NPR about her experiences as the first woman to successfully row across the Atlantic.  Amazing.  She didn’t talk about the technical fete; her stories reflect the internal battles we all fight as humans.
In particular, I loved when she talked about the time she capsized and spent what seemed [...]

I just signed a contract with a major publisher to publish a book for high-achieving women based on my research and the Burden of Greatness.
I’ll share pieces of the pages with you as I go along. I know I’ll use some of these posts. Please comment whenever you feel the urge when share thoughts with [...]

Sometimes life on the outside can seem great but you know there is something missing. You have a stimulating job, a beautiful home, a loving family but…
I found a great tool that I use with my coaching clients to articulate their core values. If their life does not honor their top four values, they don’t [...]

I live in Phoenix, Arizona, home of the Arizona Cardinals football team. Karl, my life partner, is from Philadelphia. We went to the playoff game this weekend. He wore his Philadelphia Eagles hat. At the end of the game, there was a pile of cups, not all completely empty, that Cardinals fans threw at him. [...]

While teaching in Chile this week, one of the women asked me how to deal with her boss who treats her like a child. I asked her what she does now. She said she ends up arguing with him even when the issue is not worth her time.
I remembered a time when I was complaining [...]

I love the feeling of knowing I just delivered a great class or a powerful coaching session. Yet how I define “great” and “powerful” has shifted for me over time.
For years, I said that learning was my highest value. When I received a good evaluation for a class, it meant that I had created a [...]

While volunteering for the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah, my girlfriend and I were assigned to man who oversaw a room of cats. We thought he was a little odd. However, once he saw that we were serious about caring for the cats, he opened up to us.
He had been a drifter before he [...]

Recently, a coach told me that my parents abused me.
She didn’t mean I was physically abused. She didn’t mean I was psychologically abused through demeaning words or behavior.
She said I was abused because the my parents gave me their love on a conditional basis. The condition was that I would excel at everything I do.
Now [...]