So, you have a big job staring you in the face.  You know from your most recent goal setting session that this task will really jump start your efforts toward achieving something that is important to you.  But days, weeks and maybe even months drift by and you make little or no progress.   You […] Read more

    I’ve been hearing this question a lot recently – from my clients, my friends, my kids, even in my own head! What is Behind this Question?     “Shouldn’t I be further by now” is judgment masquerading as a question. It comes from setting the expectations for our results based on the results […] Read more

    Early in our marriage, Dave and I would often spend our evenings sitting next to each other on our blue plaid couch. The couch was our meeting place for our nightly “complaint-fests.”   The Pattern After a hastily prepared meal consisting mainly of uninspiring processed foods, we would flop down in exhaustion anxious […] Read more

About 20 miles north of our hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania lies the tiny town of Roseto, Pennsylvania.  Built on the side of a hill by Italian immigrants from Roseto, Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this town is the setting for the first vignette within Malcom Gladwell’s widely read book Outliers: The […] Read more

So, you’ve gotten to the end of another day and you’re feeling disappointed and a little guilty. There were things that you wanted to get done, but between the blizzard of emails, an unexpected “crisis” at work, and one of your kids being up all night sick, you got very little done on your list […] Read more