Connect with Both

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Naming It

Eleven years ago, in a conversation with my coach, we debriefed the eventful year that was about to conclude. It had been one of the changes beginning with leaving my corporate career to start my coaching business, and then planning a wedding and getting married. As we looked back at the year and reflected on all that had occurred, Tracey commented, “You did it all in a powerfully graceful way.” Without knowing it at the time, Tracey was naming the most important elements of what I would eventually call “living in the current.” Read more

The Movie Camera Technique

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First, Go Wide

Today I’d like to share one of my techniques for managing overwhelm. You can use this on any given day as well as for long-range planning. Applying the metaphor of a movie camera, it goes like this: When multiple or conflicting priorities make it hard to know where to start, first, go for the wide shot. In movie lingo it’s also known as the long shot: “a camera shot taken at a relatively great distance from the subject and permitting a broad view of the scene.”¹ Read more

Don’t Get Used to This

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Barely Getting By

Remember your first job, first apartment, and living paycheck to paycheck? In the beginning, just being able to make rent and survive in the real world feels like enough — and it is, until you learn that there is something more beyond merely surviving. Read more

When You See It, Celebrate It

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What Started as Panic

Photo of shopping cartHere’s how my Monday morning started last week. I walked upstairs to my office and when there was no computer in sight, the feeling in the pit of my stomach told me what must have happened. That Sunday while on my way into the grocery store, I brought my laptop with me so it wouldn’t be exposed to the high heat inside the car on a June day in Scottsdale — it was 107 degrees outside. After shopping for about an hour, I quickly loaded the groceries into the car. In my haste to get home with the refrigerated items, I left my laptop in the shopping cart, lined up in the parking lot stall. Since I decided to have a computer-free Sunday afternoon, I didn’t notice it was missing until bright and early Monday morning. Read more

Kind of or Absolutely?

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Watch Your Language

The other day I was helping my client Debbie¹ update her resume. The financial services company she works for is going through layoffs, and Debbie is in job search mode. Her long-term goal is to get into healthcare technology, and she is enrolled in a certification program. As we considered her audience and how to gear her resume, we discussed that one logical route to an immediate job is to look for something similar to what she’s doing now: customer service with a financial company. Then Debbie slipped in the comment, “Well, I wouldn’t mind finding a healthcare position now.” Read more

What Are You Willing To Do?

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Willing to Follow Through

I’m writing today’s article in-flight, on the way home from attending my stepson Jordan’s college graduation in Hartford. During this trip and through the example of three people close to me and in their 20s, the theme of willingness presented itself as the message to share with you this week. Read more

Know Your Why

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Powerful Reminders

Those of you who’ve been reading In the Current for a while now are familiar with my referencing Chris Gardner, the entrepreneur, and philanthropist whose story was portrayed by Will Smith in the movie The Pursuit of Happyness. Last week at a conference in Palos Verdes, California, Chris was the keynote speaker, and I had the opportunity to hear him share his story and meet him personally. Read more

Persistence Pays

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Against the Odds

Most of us marvel at stories about people who became successful despite experiencing rejection or failure on the road to achievement. One of my favorite examples is Chester Carlson, the inventor of electrophotography (photocopying), who was dismissed by more than 20 companies as well as the National Inventors Council, before he had the ultimate satisfaction of seeing Xerox introduce its first office copier. Read more

It’s In Your Focus

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Two Strategies to Use Now

New studies continue to come out with findings that show the specific effects stress has on our physical health: increasing the risk of heart attack, diabetes, and other chronic conditions. There’s some encouraging news, too, however, which suggests that health outcomes can be significantly improved by altering the way we deal with stress.¹ Read more

You Are Changing

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Can I Really Do It?

Lose 25 pounds and keep it off. Do work you enjoy and earn a good living. Be in a great relationship. No sooner do you name the thing you want to call into your life, and there is the thought: Will I really do what I say I’m going to do? What if I can’t? Read more