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Is what’s going on with the economy keeping you up at night? Are you worried and stressed? Given all that’s happening, you are not alone.
People who don’t have good self-care habits to begin with, find it almost impossible to take care of themselves at times of extreme stress. Health matters. Living with stress, not sleeping […]

Interruptions are part of life and work never ends. Those who accept these two facts have an easier time coping and don’t add to their stress.
The average person in an office is interrupted almost six times an hour, all day long. Six times an hour!
Most people I talk to feel helpless when it comes to […]

It is during difficult times, when life seems to be turning on its head, that we have to maintain our center. Everywhere we look there is something to worry about. The more we listen, read, and watch, the more anxious we become. Pollsters are telling us that eight out of ten people are seriously scared […]

At the Möbius Leadership forum session titled “Walking the Tight Wire: Family and Career, Finding the Balance,” moderator Robin Ely, a professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School, suggested that “people focus in their lives on what it is that they want to create, and not necessarily on what it is that they want […]

Life doesn’t present us with a clear, unobstructed road. On our way, we get potholes, roadblocks, and mudslides. Our lives spin out of control. We lose our jobs. Our businesses falter. Our children seem to have grown up overnight and we are not the center of their world anymore. We fall out of love. Stress […]

As I read through the newspaper today, I came to the realization, once again, of how fear and anxiety are gripping our world. Why not after all?
Our economy is flanking; the education system is letting our children down; there is war going on; the health care system is inadequate. . . do I need to […]

These last two months have been very exciting for me. For a while now I have been sensing a shift in my work. There is an air of renewal and the desire for more clarity and direction. I have been down this path before and I can read the signs well. Bruce Burton said: “When […]

When I work with people on time management, I always ask them to answer the following question before they make a time commitment: “How will this action further my vision for my day or my business?”
It pays to have a vision for how your day will be, how a project needs to progress, or how […]

Vision Value
Being in business is not for the weak at heart. Especially in times of great uncertainty and constant change. Certain factors, like the economy, are beyond our control. These are the things we must accept. As in every aspect of life, we can only act upon the areas we have some control over.
We may […]

When The Shoe Fits
In my work with entrepreneurs, I sometimes come across the person who is in business for all the wrong reasons. It happened just the other day. I was visiting an art gallery with a friend who knew the gallery owner. We started talking and during the conversation, the owner explained that […]

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