I taught school for 20 years – grade 6 to post graduate, and here’s how we created solutions just by the way we thought about seeming obstacles… “I believed in the students’ ability to learn and be successful, and we practiced ways of building that belief in them. I encouraged my junior-high students to let […] Continue reading →

My Dad was a veterinarian, and when I was a little kid, I remember my Dad “fixing” peoples’ pets. I was told it meant that the pet couldn’t be a mommy or a daddy and have puppies or kittens. As a result, when I hear someone looking to “get fixed” I have a private chuckle. […] Continue reading →

“Assume: to take as being true, for the purpose of argument or action” This is the Concise Oxford Dictionary definition…I’ve been observing the assumptions people make, and find it fascinating how often they are from the “worst case scenario” side of the line.   I forgive myself for believing I have to buy into assuming […] Continue reading →

You wouldn’t consider having a close friend who called you names and was verbally abusive. You wouldn’t partner with a person who continuously berated you for being “not good enough”, who put you down at every opportunity and spoke nastily about you to others. Yet millions of people do…and you may be one of them. […] Continue reading →

How often have you taken yourself out of the game? Fear, perfectionism, feelings of unworthiness will stop us dead in our tracks and steal our dreams, our hopes and our possibilities. How have you taken yourself out in the past… By playing small? By pretending all was well when it wasn’t? By imagining the worst? […] Continue reading →