A PSA for my Fellow Helpers

One of the things I love about my work is that I get to be a part of big, life-changing work without being involved with life-threatening situations. Crisis counselors, E.R. docs, EMTs: Brava. Really. There are times – many times, I would imagine – where your...

The well-intentioned folly of the perfect victim

Theresa read me a quote from Anne Frank this morning: “No one has ever become poor by giving.” Frank sure recorded some profound wisdom in her journal, made all the more amazing by the fact that she was only 15 when she died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945. For...

My mug-shaped reminder of our impact

During a recent video-based coaching session, my client prompted me to show off the hand-made mug I was drinking tea from. I love this mug: Its bulbous body tapers toward the top, offering both a big space for lots of tea and a shape that keeps it hotter longer. Its...

A Little New Year Foolishness

I’m a long-time year-end planner and I’ve gone about it a pile of ways. I’ll save you the gory details except to say that I’ve found that having a lot of those such details didn’t make me more productive or more capable of achieving anything. Instead, it mostly just...

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