“Love what you do and you will never work a day in your life.” That quote has always seemed a little “baloney-ish” to me, the purview of the privileged. Even a google search for the source of the quote suggests that it’s not really a thing. It’s attributed to both Confucius and singer Marc Anthony—how…
DetailsSome days when it’s time to write I feel like Andy McDowell in “Sex, Lies and Videotape” when she’s talking to her therapist about how sad and paralyzed she gets by reading the paper and seeing the children getting hurt on the news. That’s what it feels like waking up to the horrors of what’s happening…
DetailsForget trying to lose weight over the holidays. It’s not going to happen. But a very good goal is to not gain weight over the holidays. Well, to not gain weight but also to not miss out on fun and…OMG…holiday cookies…the most amazing treats in the world. Oh, and to be social is so much…
DetailsIt actually should seem as no surprise that Oxford Dictionary just announced that “post-truth” is its 2016 word of the year, a word it said “questions the concept of facts themselves.” Your take on the word depends on your take on the world (speaking of post-truth). Some may point to a singular source of Trump’s campaign…
DetailsI’m off to speak at a school today as part of the Black Star Project Youth Motivation Program, which has me thinking about how triply impressed I am by Tammera Homes, and how sticking to a dream and mission over the long haul yields results. I’m talking about something Tammera said 10 years ago when…
DetailsIt was a Friday evening in April, 1999. Sarah* and her husband Paulo were out for their regular Friday night “date” night. Sarah had started her cycle that morning. It was two weeks after undergoing what was now an obviously unsuccessful intrauterine insemination, four months after Sarah and Paulo had begun working with a fertility…
DetailsAgree, disagree, new ideas, new perspectives…that’s what happens when you get four really smart people with clearly articulated positions on a stage together with a brave moderator—a basic model of Chicago Ideas Week. I found myself saying “oh, yeah…he has a point” and “oh, right, I can see what he is saying too…” In politics…
DetailsAs a marketer, I like things to be simple. Easily communicated. Three points. Or, even better, one succinct point that explains everything and gives you a clear call to action. Perhaps that is what I was yearning for in my decision to take three hours out of the middle of the day to go to…
DetailsOne of my clients wrote a book on grandparenting. He’s a grandparenting activist, volunteering to set up grandparent programs at secular and religious schools across Chicagoland. At 88 he has several thousand followers on Facebook and Twitter and is an active blogger. For grandparents day in September, he ran a first person story from a…
Details“Behavior makes sense from the actor’s perspective or they wouldn’t do it. -Dr. Ellen Langer This quote rings a bell for me about how people can look at the same thing and see it totally differently… And how that is absolutely, positively wonderful, particularly in terms of teams and problem-solving for the world: The more…
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