Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 The Pivot Year is my new morning companion. I read two or three pages from the book each day to launch early morning writing practice. This passage sparked recognition. With how much detail you describe the antenna of a flower or the sunset or the best night of your life—with how much understanding can you explain the ways in which you overcame your greatest challenges? How deeply do you know yourself, your life, and its riches? As you expand your...
4 days ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 Last week, I wrote about the traps we create for ourselves—the ones we fight harder and harder against, only to stay stuck. Sometimes, the answer isn’t to pull harder. It’s to find a new pathway. This week let’s go deeper. The Power—and Trap—of Routine Research shows that nearly 40–45% of our daily actions are habitual. That’s 5–8 hours a day spent doing things on autopilot: brushing your teeth the same way at the same time, diving into your inbox...
11 days ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 When I was a kid, the carnival rolled into town once a year. I still remember the ring toss and carefully aiming for those impossible glass bottles. That’s where I won one of those little woven toys — the Chinese finger trap. It looked so simple. Slip a finger into each end. Easy, right? But the moment you tried to pull them out, the trap tightened. The harder you tugged, the more stuck you felt. The toy is a trick. It's counterintuitive: you have...
18 days ago • 2 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 Too often, my first instinct is to measure what’s missing instead of what’s working. I can spot what’s wrong with my day faster than I can celebrate what’s right. Can you relate?“I should be farther ahead by now.”“I know what I did wrong.”“It’s not working.”“I should have done it differently.” We rarely spend time noticing where we’re already winning. When I ask clients, “What do you want in your life?” the answers roll off—goals, desires, dreams....
25 days ago • 2 min read
🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 Dear ChatGPT (and all your AI cousins),At first, I rolled my eyes at you. I was very cynical.People talked about you as the next best thing -- that if I weren’t using you, I’d be left behind.Another shiny new thing. Another TikTok, Threads, yet another platform to subscribe to.Not for me.Not for my business.Hard pass.But then…I listened for understanding. I started watching how others were using you—to learn, to stretch, to stay relevant.I pushed myself to...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 I remember at Fast Company in the midst of a potentially transformative new digital initiative roll-out, I was at the end of my rope. Our Editor & Chief was relentless: Every email he sent was push back. His numbers were incorrect, he was missing the context and next steps were never clear. He drove me crazy with each and every interaction. Has that every happened to you? Frustration rises. And then... Your fingers hit the keyboard. You type fast,...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 Fun fact: I was a ball girl at The U.S. Open tennis tournament. I was 13 years old, commuting two hours by bus, subway, and on foot to Flushing Meadows for my very first day. I arrived in the official U.S. Open ball girl uniform [sneakers included!]—more concerned about how I looked than how I’d perform. But super nervous working in the house of Arthur Ashe. After orientation, I was handed a stack of tennis ball containers and sent running under...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 Chemotherapy is a cocktail. My first infusion mixed two drugs, prepared fresh just for me—not pulled off a shelf. That first night in the hospital, I received my first infusion through my newly implanted PICC line at 2 a.m. Every dose in that round had to be given at the same time—2 a.m. Dark nights in the hospital were marked by the beeps from the IV Drip Pump and the quiet buzz from the nurses' station. So, plenty of time to think. In those early...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 We lose our curiosity quietly. Not all at once. Bit by bit — between the meetings we rush to, problems we solve on autopilot, and the constant pull of the daily grind. Somewhere along the way, we trade What if? for What’s next? And when you do, you lose one of the most powerful leadership tools you have. I’ve been trained to ask questions. It’s what coaches do — because a single question can change a conversation, a career, even a life. But I've...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 We think the big promises are the ones that matter. The ones we make to our kids, clients, our teams. But what really matters are the little promises we make and then break to ourselves E.V.E.R.Y. D.A.Y. I'll get up early tomorrow to work out. I'll ask for that promotion. I’m done with sugar. No more social media after 6 PM. And then we don’t. We tell ourselves it’s not a big deal. That we’ll start again Monday. That we were tired or stressed or...
2 months ago • 3 min read