You Can’t Build on Ground You Haven’t Surveyed We’ve all heard the saying: “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.” In the real world, that translates to something more honest: know yourself, know what you impact, and know why you’re doing it—or you’ll be miserable. I’ve faced retaliation.Continue reading “Foundations of Success: The Importance of Awareness”
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Foundations of Success: Unglamorous Work That Changes Everything
You See the Outcome. You Don’t See the Work. When people come to me with frustrations about their career or life, it often sounds like a complaint about someone else. “Why did she get promoted and not me?” “How does he afford that house?” “They just got lucky.” But underneath that complaint is usually aContinue reading “Foundations of Success: Unglamorous Work That Changes Everything”
Alignment as a Path to Achievement: The Power of Knowing Your Why
🌿 Finding Your Why At some point, we all hit moments when life or work feels heavier than we can handle. The goals blur, the motivation fades, and we start to question why we’re even doing it all. That’s when understanding your why becomes your anchor. In both career and life coaching, I often talkContinue reading “Alignment as a Path to Achievement: The Power of Knowing Your Why”
SMART Goals, Smarter Reviews: Showing Up for Yourself at Year-End
🎯 The Season of Reviews It’s that time of year again: performance reviews, ratings, and raise decisions. For many organizations, this process drives not only salary increases but also reputation and career momentum. Whether your company formally uses SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound) or not, keeping this framework in mind when writingContinue reading “SMART Goals, Smarter Reviews: Showing Up for Yourself at Year-End”
The Filing Cabinet of Life: Experience Fuels our Foundation
There’s a simple truth I keep coming back to: every moment is a choice. We don’t get to decide which moments will be perfect and which will be tragic. Life has a way of handing us both; sometimes in the same week, sometimes in the same breath. What we do get to decide though, isContinue reading “The Filing Cabinet of Life: Experience Fuels our Foundation”
Building Bridges, Not Walls: Relationships That Shape Success
🌉 Why Relationships Matter More Than We Think In my early career, I kept my head down, did the work, and believed that results alone would earn me success. And while hard work is absolutely important, I’ve learned something even more powerful: the right relationships can accelerate your growth in ways that hard work aloneContinue reading “Building Bridges, Not Walls: Relationships That Shape Success”
Reset Without Losing Direction
🧭 Pivoting Without Losing Your True North One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned, both in my career and personal life, is that sometimes the path we thought we’d take isn’t the one we end up walking. The ability to pivot isn’t a sign of failure or weakness. It’s a sign of awareness, courage, andContinue reading “Reset Without Losing Direction”
I Shanked It: Resilience Lessons from the Volleyball Court
🏐 I’m Sure I’ve Mentioned I Play Volleyball… Once or Twice Okay, probably more like a hundred times. (If we’ve ever had coffee, I’ve probably brought it up before your latte even cooled.) But hear me out—sports and careers really do share a lot of the same lessons. It’s part of why people say organizedContinue reading “I Shanked It: Resilience Lessons from the Volleyball Court”
Trusting the Compass: Letting Your Values Lead
🧭 Following Your Own North Star There’s a certain comfort in playing it safe.The steady paycheck.The predictable move.The path that everyone expects you to take. But here’s the thing:Playing it safe isn’t always what’s best. 💬 The Choice That Tested My Compass Years ago, my company announced it was moving its headquarters to New Jersey.Continue reading “Trusting the Compass: Letting Your Values Lead”
One Foot in Front of the Other: A Moment for Grace and Realignment
🌿 Progress Over Perfection—In Work, in Grief, in Healing At the end of the last post, we talked about the idea of progress over perfection. And as I sit here now, writing this, I realize it’s time to share something more personal—because this lesson has been living inside of me for the past several months.Continue reading “One Foot in Front of the Other: A Moment for Grace and Realignment”
Authentic Evolution Journey 