The Leadership We Need Today

When do you do your best work? When you’re stressed, over stimulated and overwhelmed by the environment around you? Or when you are feeling good about being you, when you know your work is important, appreciated and valued and when you leave work knowing you made some kind of difference in the world?   I…

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Feasting On Feedback

I was teaching the Science of Happiness to a group of CEO’s and their spouses last week in Richmond Virginia at the beautiful Jefferson Hotel. Even though the purpose of the meeting was to teach couples how to use the tools of the science (and some that I’ve developed over the years) at home, the…

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What Is Your Giving?

I was sautéing zucchini and yellow squash the other night and realized that while I was doing it that I was giving myself a gift. I know, it sounds crazy, but I rather liked the idea. I give myself a gift when I buy clean fresh food and prepare it with love. It’s part of my…

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R U Delivering 5 Star Feedback?

These days I’ve been working on a writing project having to do with loneliness. It’s been most interesting to me. I find when I do research for a project, one reference piece always sends me to another and from there my intuition leads me to the answers I seek.   Article after article, conversation after…

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