Energy Helps Make Women Effective Leaders
Ah, summer. If you are like most working women, you spent part of this season not working. Often the highlight of summer, vacation gives us a break from impending deadlines, urgent e-mails, and sluggish meetings. We flip off the work switch, go away, come back, and flip it back on. But there’s a better way: Read more
Facing Fear (And Living to Tell About It)
“Do one thing every day that scares you,” recommended Eleanor Roosevelt. While this quote has encouraged at least one woman to dive with sharks and swing from a trapeze, it also presents us with the opportunity to do the more mundane things in life without worrying about failure. It is in facing fear that we Read more
Six Ways to Celebrate Your Personal Independence
LET GO. Decide to let go of something negative. The more you hate something, the more you are bound to it; the more you love it, the freer you are. SHARE THE LOVE. Give someone positive feedback–a family member, a customer service representative, an acquaintance. It will feel empowering to both of you. BREAK YOUR Read more
Writing Potential
For most of my childhood and adolescence I wanted to be a writer. While my top choices were (1) eccentric novelist living in Paris, (2) prolific Rolling Stone reporter, or (3) jet-set Condé Nast travel writer, I would have settled for being a newspaper journalist. My parents were willing to pay for college tuition, but Read more
The Journey
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, Read more
