I met a professor named Scott Walters last year who told me about a young man in a very bad way that was able, through Professor Walter’s help, to see with clearer eyes his own journey thus far, and craft a new and different ending for it.  What I love about this story is that [...]

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The secret to being a good magician is knowing that you’re creating an illusion. When we get too caught up in the illusion that we ourselves are creating, we begin to believe that the illusion is actually real. We need to come back to our magician selves and remember that we’re just making this up. [...]

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At the end of today’s Sales Moves newspaper column by Jeffrey Gitomer, the author of The Sales Bible, The Little Red Book of Selling, and many other notable books, he recommends that you “review your accomplishments at the end of each day—to praise and challenge yourself.  Write them down.” In my parlance, that’s an Inverse [...]

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As you may know, I am a huge fan of sleep and its restorative and creativity-enhancing powers. It’s one of my primary medicines, as you’ll see by this infographic. Because when we sleep, our brain recharges and re-organizes information, and our bodies release stress hormones that may block us from seeing our availability possibilities. Take [...]

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Here’s Simon Sinek on how great leaders inspire action. Do you know your “why?”  What is it?  Please share!

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This is a horribly backlit photo, but it is President Obama addressing the AP Annual Luncheon in DC, and I am in the front row.  If you Google “Obama April 3, 2012,” you’ll find video of his presentation that day and coverage of it, with plenty of juicy adjectives and verbs, such as “bitter,” “slammed,” [...]

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In 2011, Japan suffered an earthquake and tsunami which killed tens of thousands and cause a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.  The British newspaper The Guardian reported the following: “The report criticised the use of the term soteigai, meaning unforeseeable, which it said implied authorities were shirking responsibility for what had happened. It said by labeling [...]

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Teeny tiny progress.  Maybe invisible progress.  Maybe even backward progress, by certain measures.  Are you experiencing that? Welcome to the world of decoherence. Decoherence, if you have not heard me define it before, is the universe’s method for turning quantum possibility into reality. It’s also the method you use to turn your desired possibilities into [...]

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 I have been extraordinarily touched by the stories of my friends and strangers that are suddenly finding themselves unemployed, or who fear for their jobs in the next round of layoffs.  I have been on both sides of this fence–being laid off and having to lay people off–and neither one is a pleasant place to [...]

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The Secret to Great Writing and Editing – From a Southerner, No Less | michael romaner. If you were able to make it to my interview with radio host and social media storytelling expert Sandra Lee Schubert yesterday, then you’ll appreciate these tips collected by my digital media expert husband, Michael Romaner, picked up in Oxford, [...]

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