Listen with curiosity….Speak with honesty…Act with integrity…

I want to say something about honesty. We have to be honest with ourselves first in order to speak it. I used to think that I was honest when I wasn’t because I didn’t even know what I really thought…

Comparison is the thief of joy…and the root of “not enough” feelings. As I recommit to coaching, writing, illustrating, posting Verbal Remedies, and ask the world (me?) to take me seriously in this work, I find myself comparing. I was on a call last night with amazing women who are all speaking and offering their gifts at the same event that I am. I looked at all their faces on the zoom call and found myself in awe to be in such company. Quiet thoughts of insecurity passed through my head as I listened to them owning who they are.

As I left the hotel venue after my very first job on a design thinking session, I asked the facilitator “what happens next?” The participants were so very excited and had come up with some very insightful and productive tools for the problem they had gone into the session to solve and the changes they wished to make. I knew from my own experience that it would be easy to slip right back into the old groove once back at their desks, back into the plethora of demands of their job.