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Those who know me know I’m not a big fan of the warm and fuzzy. However, my blog post today is all about the importance of connection and relationships. With my background in HR I talk a lot of Human Capital, essentially the ability to measure return on employees. After attending a fantastic Rainmakers event this morning I started to think about the importance of Emotional Capital, which by my made up definition is the amount of the warm and fuzzy w… Continue

Am I really happy? Actually yes. Although it is only 6:45am so not too much has happened to ruin my day yet. Not to be pessimistic but man, life has been interesting to say the least. I saw a quote by Mother Teresa awhile back that said, "God only gives me what I can handle. I wish he didn't trust me so much." Isn't that the truth.

So this week my "stuff" to handle is getting caught up and staying caught up.

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As I was reading through this book I came across an excerpt by Catherine Newton, Create a Magical Life: Tap into Your Soul’s Intention of Abundance. It is about trusting yourself when your proverbial castle is crumbling. When it seems that everything in life is falling apart you must trust in yourself and your actions that things happen for a reason and the right path and destiny will show itself.
This really spoke to me, as it is what I am currently going through in my own life. Each day when I… Continue

So, this week I had this great idea, well I thought it was great at the time, to cut back on my caffeine intake. You see I typically drink a pot of coffee in the morning just to get me going and then several ice tea’s during the day. Then at night wine to relax me (but that’s a post all in itself). I began to realize that I was having trouble sleeping and figured it was due to one of three things. My high stress level, sleeping with my Blackberry and feeling compelled to see what emails came acr… Continue

Book progress or lack thereof…

Deadlines, what can be said about deadlines?? Right now I would like to say I hate them. A procrastinator by nature, making the final revisions to my book are not something I can put off because if I do not have them to my editor in time then they can’t do their work and everything gets thrown off. Don’t you hate that? I mean really, sometimes I just look at the screen of my laptop and want to stare off into space. It’s much more fun. I don’t feel like using neith… Continue