Is September YOUR new January?
From sending kids back to school, to strategic fiscal planning at work, this is a time of year normally marked by transitions and the anticipation of fresh starts. However, this year is completely different. But with change comes the opportunity to make a new start, to do things differently. With September now upon us, it […]
Don’t wait!
Worry takes a lot of effort and accomplishes nothing of value. And at the same time, due to the time-horizon of the pandemic, it’s also tempting for us to simply wait. To wait for things to get back to normal. But all the time we’re spending waiting (for a normal that is unlikely to be […]
Avoiding ‘toxic positivity’
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don’t worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do. By Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture No one could have anticipated COVID-19 […]
There’s still humor in this…
Not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine myself entering a bank, wearing a mask, and asking for money. We want to publicly apologize to the year 2019 for all the bad things we said about it. In just two weeks we will hear if there are still two more weeks to let us […]
Herding cats, are you?
In a favorite SuperBowl commercial, a group of cowboys gallop across the screen, dust flying everywhere, whips snapping, yelling as they try to guide the herd. And then we notice why the cowboys are having a particularly difficult time. They are not herding cows; they are herding, or attempting to herd, cats. “Herding cats” refers […]