Lessons in Focus
Focus Distractions come and go throughout our day – they try to steal our focus and change our plans. Some distractions are minor – thus we easily succumb, like a quick tour through Facebook....
View ArticleMy Lesson: Stay on Your Toes – You Can't Prepare for Everything
“Do you want us to perform life-saving measures on the baby?” I think I barely blinked as the question was asked. “You mean my daughter?” I responded. “Yes, ma’am,” she hesitated, “your daughter,”...
View ArticleRise Above the Fear By Learning from the Past
Just the Way You Are I sat in the stylist’s chair at some fancy salon at a now non-existent Mall. I had decided to get a perm. It was the horrible hair era of 1977. A quick wash and trim and then I...
View ArticleThe Flowers of Failure: My Lesson from HR Tech
Loving My Work I work for the HR Tech company Technomedia – we have an HR software – that’s what makes us an HR Tech company. We update our software consistently and add new functionalities on a...
View ArticleCurse or Challenge: I Faced Death and Won
I Choked, Coughed, and Sputtered The smell of smoke… It woke me. It’s just the candle I had left burning I thought, and it was but the waxy smoke had filled my poorly ventilated room. I started...
View ArticleAn Everyday Reminder of Simple Gratitude
The Water Bill The middle of the month is when I pay my bills. Only one monthly bill remains where I am required to write a check… the water bill. It still surprises me that a necessary and powerful...
View ArticleA Moment Cracked: A Life Lesson I Didn't Want
Stripped of Innocence When I was only eighteen, the same age as my sweet daughter Audrey, a man forty years my senior made serious advances toward me. I don’t think I knew quite what was happening at...
View ArticleLessons during Breaches of Greatness
A Disaster Waiting to Happen I was recently a co-presenter in a webinar for my company. I was well-prepared, had updated and edited the presentation, had worked closely with my co-presenter, had done...
View ArticlePolish Your Kindness: Learning to Say Thank You
Be kind to Others There is a pretty simple concept which speaks to being kind. Ellen DeGeneres has made “Be kind to others” her mantra over the last several years. And you know what? she’s right....
View ArticleOn Growing Whole – Create Your Legacy Now
Defining Your Legacy I just finished an incredible five months participating in a program called The Telios Experience led by my brother, Dr. Andrew Thorn, PhD. This was a personal legacy-building...
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