While enjoying dinner at my favorite Italian neighborhood restaurant, I saw a local business owner I have known for years. I ask “How’s business?” His response was “Terrible”. “Well it certainly is challenging,” I replied. We chatted a bit about it. My attempt with each response was to end on a positive optimistic note.…
Wow. It’s still the beginning of Feb and I have a whole business plan done. My dear colleague Carolyn Watt helped facilitate that and it happened quite by chance. Or maybe not. Carolyn’s Site In January I was sitting on the floor in the living room (where I do the really serious work) surrounded…
Happy New Year! Is it? Happy? What makes it happy? Good health, a better job, lots of money in the bank, a new car, a new wife, a new nose? A new place to live, a new religion, a new piece of jewelry, a new pair of shoes? A lot of these things…
Today I wrote to someone I haven’t heard back from in a long time. I was frightened by his response to my request for just a nod (a return email, 5 minutes on the phone…). “I’m slammed” he said. “Picked up some new responsibilities that are just killing me.” Ouch. That frightened me.…
Starting next week, for 5 weeks, 20 world-renowned thought leaders are sharing their insights and wisdom on how to live better, experience more joy, have more fun and create prosperity even in tough times. We’ll be talking about business and we’ll be talking about life. This online event is called the Heart Based Service…
I’m in NY today and it seems as if the whole city is weeping. The rain just pours down. It breaks my heart open again. As hearts break open, opportunity arises. I always feel the hope that the compassion we feel, the kindness we feel, the empathy we feel on the anniversary of this…
People keep asking me why I’m so darn happy. After all, they say, things are pretty bad out there. All the more reason to stay centered and happy I say. In fact, I’ve never felt stronger, smarter or more confident than I do now. Years ago when I got trained as a happiness coach…
A day dedicated to love. How nice. Everyone every where seems to be smiling today. At the farmer’s market this morning, the several stops I made today, even the dry cleaners where I complained about the stains they added to my cute little red jacket. The supermarket seemed brimming with couples picking out…
I was schlepping myself and my luggage through the airport this week feeling tired and old when I heard my friend and teacher Scotty’s voice in my head. “Walk like a dancer JoAnna, walk like a dancer.”
I have to tell you that at that very moment I felt myself grow taller, I felt my gaze rise from the moving sidewalk to what passes for a horizon in an airport, I took a deeper breath, I lifted my head and heart and then exhaled. I thought of how a dancer might move her body through an airport pulling luggage. I figured it had to be different than the way I’d been doing it. So I made up, in my mind, a vision of how I thought a trained and graceful dancer would be moving herself through the tunnel between terminals A and B – a mighty distance.
What are your strengths? Over the last year I’ve done some things that have some of my friends wondering about me. Maybe it’s that I’m getting better with age. Maybe it’s being afraid to age. Maybe it’s all these happiness coaches I hang out with and study with. One of the things we learn…
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