by Gayle | Jul 6, 2015 | Blog
“You’re seeing through Rose-Colored Glasses” is a sideways remark meant to wake up a person’s ability to see reality – the truth of a situation – rather than an optimistic spin. Rose-colored glasses may be a distortion; but...
by Gayle | Jun 1, 2015 | Blog
The weekend of Mother’s Day was college graduation for my daughter. While her senior project will be completed in the fall to obtain her diploma, she was invited to walk with her class. Empathizing with bittersweet “almost-finishing-but-not-quite”...
by Gayle | May 4, 2015 | Blog
Last night I had dinner with a sorority sister from college. I last saw her three decades ago. Timeless connection is stunning. She looked, walked, talked, and moved the same: gorgeous, bubbly, slender, radiant. In her sharing, one clear sentence after another, she...
by Gayle | Apr 6, 2015 | Blog
Inspired by a lecture from Sarah Lewis, author of The Rise, a friend shared with me a new view of mastery. Mastery is not success, but as Ms. Lewis offers, a confident pursuit. The attainment of the Gold medal does not represent mastery; it indicates success. Nor is...
by Gayle | Mar 2, 2015 | Blog
Does this action feel familiar to you? Fed up with junk email, even with a fully operating “junk filter,” spending hours unsubscribing from emails? Then within a few weeks it seems that the proliferation of junk mail is back? At most, 10% of the electronic...
by Gayle | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog
Last month you read: it was radical take action time. So I took action to begin a writing sabbatical and spend 90% of my time on specific writing projects. Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, where I was born and raised and where family remains, was my first destination to...
