Everyone wants long term success. But it is elusive for most. Long term success is dependent on knowing where you are now and where you are headed. Then closing the gap. Frequently. Continuously. Whether it’s your business, your career or your life at home., it’s easy to get off track, lose touch or get buried […]
Always Add Value
Always Add Value is one of my 52 Quintessential Principles of Greatness codified to keep us moving from great to greatness. I forget to apply this principle myself every once in a while. In fact, just last week I was asked to by a really sharp associate leader, “what value will you bring to my […]
Getting Comfortable in Our Own Skin
For some women, there’s a particular moment when we recognize that our bodies are no longer young, and for others, this is an ongoing process, simply a continuation of the lifelong body judgment we are taught from a young age. We know that we have internalized the expectations of a youth-obsessed society and the unrealistic […]
Memory Gardens – Wonderful for Body and Soul/Guest Post
Sacramento, Ca. – I love to remember the tiger lilies that grew in my granny’s Oklahoma red dirt. They seemed magical with their bright orange color and their black speckled petals. Every time I see one I’m reminded of the Oklahoma summers I spent playing with cousins and eating my granny’s wonderful cooking. The ones […]
The Greatness Challenge: Excerpt
In this manifesto, I beseech you to belly up to the realization that we can no longer afford to rest on our laurels. The world is shifting to a different playing field, one New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman says is “flattened by instant connectivity.” If we don’t wake up in time to retool for […]
Don’t Be Fooled
This phrase caught my eye: “Meaningful Beauty.” It’s appealing, isn’t it? Who isn’t drawn by both beauty and meaning? The combination of the two was tantalizing, promising substance, a look at beauty that was beyond skin deep—which only made the actual content of the email all the more ironic. It was an ad for Cindy Crawford’s […]
Ageless Beauty Does Exist
Sharon Stone has been in the media lately, from Shape magazine to an interview on Oprah Prime to Huffington Post coverage of both, saying she doesn’t want to be an ageless beauty, that ageless beauty doesn’t exist. She then goes on to explain: “We have to have internal health and internal wellness, . . . […]
Ageless Beauty
“Men . . . can still be sexy while they grow older, while women grow old and ugly!” —Violet, played by Meryl Streep in August: Osage County Recently, on the Golden Globes, Diane Keaton appeared onstage looking the epitome of agelessly beautiful, but almost immediately after, a L’Oreal commercial appeared showing Diane with all her […]