Have you ever been in a situation where you just know there has to be a change, but you’re not sure how to either make the change yourself, or even contribute to the change? Maybe you’re at work and you can see that the processes that worked a few months or a few years ago aren’t as effective any more. There are lots of stories like that. Companies go through this on a regular basis, and if they don’t improve their...

Do you think you’re the same person you were a year ago? Do you know what your current comfort zone is? Do you ever step outside of it? (Psst, there’s a test at the end of this article. Hope you’ll take it.) As I look back on the past year, many fond memories come to mind. It was just over a year ago when my younger brother and I shared a thought that we should go visit our mother. We hadn’t seen her in many, many years and we...

Do you know what tomorrow will bring? I’ve been writing a blog on a weekly basis for about nine months. My intention is to write something every Thursday or Friday. In most weeks, I hit late Thursday or early Friday morning and I don’t have a clue what I’m going to write about. This week was a bit different as the ideas have been flowing for the past couple days, now the challenge is which one to share. There’s a story about the value of...

Earlier this year while writing my first book proposal, I found myself getting stuck multiple times. I felt stressed, overwhelmed, inadequate- you name it and I probably experienced it. One day, while speaking with my mom, she saw the toll it had been taking on me and mentioned how she wished the process would happen more smoothly for me. I smiled and said it would work out however it was supposed to. In my mind however, I remember half...