All I Know

Is that I love my babies. My family. My dog. My wife. My close friends. For all my faults as a parent and spouse and sister my love for the people and creatures in my life is unwavering. It can’t be diminished or hidden. And sometimes it overwhelms me. When I lose someone I...

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Moments

When you know you’ve done right. When everything comes together. It seems like destiny. Such a beautiful sweet thing to experience firsthand. Believing in someone. Fostering that belief in them. Seeing them grow and face new challenges. Taking a step forward. Few things feel quite so good as helping someone live their best life....

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Ready

There are moments in life when a change is needed. There’s a lack of growth. You stagnate. You’ve pushed the limits and come up against a ceiling. It’s time to move on. Move up. Step up. This is what ready is. You won’t nail all the interview questions. Or have the perfect intro for...

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Where Is The Love?

I do believe that love is the key ingredient to managing the ups and downs of life, work, relationships, competition. Without this winning, losing, enduring are unbearable. For me. This is the case for me. Passion and love are my barometer. What keeps me keeled when everything is offset. What drives me forward when...

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Without A Harness

Sometimes you’ll fall. Make mistakes. Get hurt. The harness keeps you safe for a while. But you’ve got to take it off at some point. Test the waters. See what’s you and what’s not. And you’ll either keep falling or stop and succeed. Get stronger. Some things require a harness. Bad hips. Flying too...

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Short And Painful

That’s what this week was. Four day week! Blah blah. Five days of work in four days more like it. Chaos. Insanity. Emotional highs and lows. Spent the weekend relaxing with the fam. Only to come back to Tuesday slapping me in the face like a wet towel I dried my dog with. But...

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People First

I have had the privilege of leading many teams in my career. And I’m managing a few people in my current role. And I hope one thing that comes through is that I truly care about the people I work with. I’m not interested in power or prestige. I want to help them. And...

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If You Can’t Say Anything Nice

Grow up. You’re being a baby and indulging yourself in selfish thoughts. What frustrated you has passed. What will frustrate you will pass. Like it always does. And instead of spreading your angsty whiny crap do everyone a favor and eat some cookies and be grateful. Easier said than done. Note to self: listen...

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A Funny Thing Happened

An interesting thing happened tonight. I opened up my gmail and had somehow emailed myself a post from April 22. A post about my dad. I thought I had somehow reposted it. But I hadn’t. It was an odd and wonderful thing that happened. Odd because how did it happen? I don’t remember even...

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