There is a look in my daughter’s eyes as she walks through the door. That look has been there since she was a baby. It says, ‘Feed me.’ Every mother knows that look. And yet, so many of us do not feed ourselves what we need. Eat! is what we…

If money is the almighty goal for you, have the guts to say the exact number that would satisfy your business hunger. If you can’t come up with a number, be willing to ask yourself what it is you truly want. Choosing a strategic goal can be like opening the…

Everyone has blind spots. So how can we be accountable for what we don’t see? Here’s what I’d like you to get. Though we cannot see our emotional processes with the naked eye, we can observe them in the patterns that show up in our results. A pattern is a…

Consider this. Can a fish climb a tree? If you said no, is it because the fish can’t breathe out of water? Or do you believe the tree can’t be underwater with the fish? There’s a good chance you chose one of those options. …

Consider this. If you want to be a painter and hold a paintbrush in your hand, are you willing to be made accountable to learn how to paint? …

As the captain of your ship, you must be at the helm. But you can’t simultaneously be at the helm and in the ship’s bowels redirecting the rudder. You can choose your direction but know it’s the ship’s rudder that keeps it on course. Enron was an oil and gas…

As parents, we want to build a better life for our children. We love them, and we believe our behaviours justify our love. Even if we never speak the words, most of us want our children to be us. But at what cost? Even if they never say the words…

Time was never the predictor of your success because time doesn’t care how long you wait. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. (Spoiler alert!) In the movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a baby boy named Benjamin is born looking very old, and a nurse sends him to a nursing home to die. As he…

A tribe is an emotional blanket weaved by our values. A weave of rich values makes up for a warm and inviting blanket. However, a tapestry of thin values — the lack of self-examination — can leave us shivering in the middle of the night. Being willing to discover the…