Family Business is a unique business model that presents real challenges and opportunities to growth and success. One of the obvious reasons? It includes family members. Families are dynamic and complex, filled with history, fraught with emotion, where misunderstandings happen...
Game show host, Alex Trebek knew how to use his secret sauce to live life to the fullest. He understood who he was, how to operate in the world, and maximized that understanding on a daily basis [...]
Beyond - Finding Freedom & Meaning in the Everyday In the grand scheme of things, all there is, is change. Change is the only constant, so I have been told. I look out the window as winter recedes, the special sunlight of spring shining through the pane of glass, compelling me to go outside. As [...]
What if you could never procrastinate? What if, in fact, something else was going on? Something you were barely aware of because you focused on the idea of your - procrastinating and not on the real issue. “Beyond the label you have placed on your inaction is the truth.” I love this one because, in [...]
You’ve heard it all before: “You have to feel motivated — you have to be determined in order to achieve what you want.” I don’t know about you, but those words are feeling pretty empty and shallow to me these days. That’s because when you go beyond your reliance on those meaningless words, you [...]
It’s time for us to take a leap. To leave behind conventional thinking about how we interact with each other and begin to expand what is possible. Think about when you last powerfully related with someone you first met. You may have heard yourself say “we just clicked” or “there was a chemistry about [...]
The Oak Tree and the Squirrel: a story of how the world works in Grace The oak tree stood very tall as it does; probably having existed for several hundred years. The squirrel, with its rodent like body and large bushy tail, looked up absentmindedly from the forest floor just before it leaped on [...]
BEYOND LOVE... Love is believing in someone more than they believe in themselves Love is believing in possibility Love is believing in a beautiful world that others can’t see Love is seeing with fresh eyes and hearing with fresh ears Love is total attention Love is losing track of time Love is in the details [...]
I sit watching the waiter skip, almost dance across the floor as he moves between the tables to serve the next customer. The fluid motion, the quiet way he says “scusi” (excuse me in Italian) as he goes by. This is poetry in action. I am hypnotized. I don’t know if he is intelligent; I [...]
There is never a moment when you do not have a purpose. There is only the moment you feel you do not. Your life itself is your purpose. Every waking moment, every step you take, every phone call you make expresses your purpose. Just for a second, imagine in your mind’s eye a grand ballroom [...]
