This One Thing is the Key
You and I are adults. But let’s get real, there’s an aspect of our terrible twos that we haven’t fully outgrown: It is our reaction to the word “no.” When we were toddlers, we didn’t like our parents and/or other caregivers saying, “no, you can’t…” or “no, don’t…” or...
The Problem With One-Day, Some Day
Last weekend we celebrated Labor Day here in the U.S. And I definitely enjoyed some downtime, filled with BBQs and dancing. I also spent a portion of the holiday weekend working — practicing for my upcoming multi-city (workshop) tour; working on the initial...
What is The Weight of Your Unfinished Projects?
Ahhh…the last lazy days of Summer are upon us. And here I am popping onto your screen to talk about unfinished projects and the end of the year. Too soon? Not really when you consider that September 1 is just around the corner, and it has become the “new” new...
How to Make Your (Financial House) More Resilient
Growing up, when I’d share a disappointment with my mother, she’d often respond with, “You win some; you lose some; and some get rained out.” A phrase I am certain stems from her many years as the only female softball umpire in Western New York. (I was so happy that...
What Does It Mean to Be Healthy?
In 2002, I ran a four-month group coaching program, “My Best Year Ever, Financially.” Back then, as I still do today, I asked my clients to track their money. Not necessarily for the purposes of creating a budget (although that can be helpful), but more so so that...
What Happens When You Expect the Wrong Thing
I just completed the second leg of a six-city speaking/workshop tour for a law firm. The associate attorneys and partners in front of whom I stood are smart and self-sufficient, with a healthy dose of logic, reasoning and risk aversion streaming through their...
Sometimes, You Need to Shift Your Relationship With Money
Until, Damon Young’s New York Times Op-Ed went viral last month, it’s likely you never heard of the term he coined: post-brokeness stress disorder. However, you might very well be able to relate to his story: that of going from not earning enough,...
Now Is the Perfect Time to Ask Yourself: How Am I Doing?
If you are a New Yorker and lived here during the years of Mayor Ed Koch, you know he’d frequently ask, “How am I doing?” It was his way of taking a pulse check of the “people” during his three terms and between election cycles. What a...
Do You Know What is the Underrated Trait of Bravery?
According to Merriam Webster, trust is defined as an, “assured reliance on the character, ability, strength or truth of someone or something.” Of all the people you trust; of all the things into which you put your trust, how much of that trust is directed...
