5 Questions That Will Change Your Life
“The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.” – David Whyte Here’s your homework for December. Instead of getting lost in either the resistance of, or the reveling in, […]
How to Get Back on Track As the Summer Comes to an End
Here’s what a client said last week. (See if it sounds familiar.) “Man, I was really on a roll with this project before the summer. But then the kids were home all summer, and we had vacation, and then I had to get Brian off […]
Is Being a “People Pleaser” Sabotaging Your Confidence?
Years ago, I was hosting a retreat. Â I was teaching the attendees about decisions and commitment. Now, we had spent many hours over our three days together getting clarity, setting intention and identifying next steps and big dreams. I said that in my experience, intention […]
On Having the Courage to Suck at Things
I have a friend who can’t type. She gets by, yes. And she’s turned “hunting and pecking” into an art form. Personally, I think typing is the coolest skill ever. Sometimes when I’m typing away, this little character appears in my head and marvels at […]
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Business
The great news is that your clients probably never lay eyes on your work-space. So why would tidying up even matter? I mean, some days you don’t even shower. (Oh come on, admit it.) Well, in the words of Marie Kondo, best-selling author of The […]
My Favorite Productivity Tricks for Procrastinators
People who say procrastination is about laziness are like people who think that anorexia is about not eating enough. Case in point:Â As I started to write this article, I thought, “I’ll just go check my Facebook messages first.” Then I caught myself in the […]
How to Unhook Yourself from all that Drama, Darkness and Rage
Years ago, I was at my gate at the Atlanta airport surrounded by TV screens and CNN. I caught a sound bite that put me on high alert. “”¦the Washington DC area was plunged into darkness this evening as storms raged”¦” Plunged? Darkness? Rage?  Well, […]
A Tale of Two Calculus Students (And All The Stuff You Should Stop Doing)
I have a friend who doesn’t know how to type. She can get by, yes. And she’s turned “hunting and pecking” into an art form. But she never learned how to think in terms of “a-s-d-f.” Or “j,k,l, semicolon.” Personally, I think typing is the […]
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Business
Your clients probably never lay eyes on your work-space. (Oh, thank God, right?) So why would tidying up even matter? Â I mean, some days you don’t even shower. (Oh come on. Admit it.) Well, in the words of Marie Kondo, best-selling author of The Life-Changing […]
My Top 10 Articles from 2016
2016 was a huge year for me and Team Uplevel. We hosted nine (count “˜em!) events.  And this was the very first year we did them all in Uplevel stomping grounds…Asheville, NC.  This kept my team free from so much travel – and kept the […]