I was inspired by a post my daughter Kami Crume recently shared on LinkedIn from Sandip Nayak about “One of the Best Things He’s Ever Read.” It made me think of the rare Corpse Flower, a story I share in my coaching course. Consider this. The Corpse Flower, native to…

STOP cowering in the face of adversity! Allow the boldness that’s in your gut to come out your mouth. Take a stand. Speak your mind, and then shut up! — When you make up your mind to take a stand or speak your mind, do what you gotta do and then shut up. Refuse to run the scenarios in your head. Refuse to negotiate with yourself over what you think you should have said or could have said. …

Change requires you to be an entirely different you. But to be who you’ve never been before you must do what you’ve never done before. And before you can do what you’ve never done before you must become someone you’ve never been before. The Challenge To Change Is Letting Go The challenge with change is letting go. Holding onto who you’ve become and what you’ve experienced along the way that has led you to this point in your life, is what makes change so difficult. You’re not asking yourself to just do something different. You’re asking yourself to be someone…

Sink or Swim. They say it’s up to you. But is it really? Do we control our own fate or has it already been determined for us? I try. But every time I try it leads me back to here. Where is here? Has anyone seen it before? The closer…

Thank you to everyone who has followed my blog and engaged with my posts this year. You are the reason I write. I must admit, it feels like no one is listening at times, but those are the moments when I picture just one. One soul searching for a word of encouragement to lift their spirit. To help pull them out of a downward spiral, to help them find their way back…

Change requires a rewire; patterns, thoughts, ideals, all woven together to create what we call reality. It’s not real, it’s simply what we’ve come to believe is real. Change is hard so hard because change requires us to rewire everything. …

It’s Not Failure, It’s Fulfillment. Another way to look at what didn’t work out in our lives is to look at it as fulfillment not failure. It’s served its intended purpose, come to its end. Everything about it was right not wrong. …

What didn’t turn out to be the opportunity of a life time was simply preparation for the opportunity of a life time. Keep trying! Nothing is wasted. Not one decision, one moment, one action; all contributes to our growth. All opportunity positions us for the next one. Didn’t quite turn…