Archive for the Attitude/ Confidence/ Head Games

At 6:30pm last night, my happy, relaxed kid turned into a sobbing, hopeless mess. All it took was a phone call from a friend who had a question about homework. Homework that she’d forgotten. Her reaction was that she couldn’t possibly get it done. Hanna went from zero to failure in about 5 seconds!
We sat down together […]

Here’s a gift for you:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zErpOnYZZH0 It’s Ben Zander’s 10 minute closing presentation at Davos, and it is inspiring. Zander wrote The Art of Possibility, which is a fantastic book about living into your possibility. Too many good ideas in there for one post. Watch the video.
Waaay back when Fast Company first came out, I loved their “Job Titles […]

You decide what you are worth. You set the fees and determine what and how you bill. What do you want to make? Market levels are relevant; do you play at the high end of the fee schedule? In the middle? What do your clients expect to pay for your experience and services? Will your clients […]

At the GP/Solo conference in Santa Fe next month, there’s a presentation called Pajama Practice: Lawyering in a Home Office. Obviously I don’t do any lawyering, but I do work from home. Not usually in pajamas, which are inconvenient when I have to walk the dog. My office is a separate space; it looks like an […]

One of the things I talk most about with clients is how to respond when their first thought is “this is something I don’t know anything about.”  Usually the feelings that accompany the thought are fear and overwhelm, which just makes it worse. The fact is, if you have a process to handle new-to-you issues, you’re […]

I’m working with someone who has grown her business impressively by being very strategic about where she places her resources. She has a business plan, she has a framework to ensure her decisions are sound, she’s persistent, her results have been solid- yet she recently put the brakes on a growth initiative. Talking about why she […]

Bet the Giants didn’t know they couldn’t win. Bet the Patriots suspected they couldn’t lose. However, there’s a ticker tape parade tomorrow, and it’s in NYC.
Trite but true, and rarely demonstrated so well as last night’s game- it ain’t over til it’s over. If you have doubts about your ability to win the game of […]

OK. Interesting piece made it through the spam filters today. All it said was “Good Morning, Barbara. Get rid of that self-esteem once and for all.” No mention of any magic pills or the size of any body parts I don’t have, no offer of a loan, no request for help recovering a family fortune […]

Wrapping up the kayak thing…after lunch I had to get the car out of the garage and then get the kayaks back on the rack while in the middle of a narrow, busy street. Getting them off was waaaay easier than getting them on. I am eternally grateful for Donald & Steve, the garage guys who more […]

OK, so I’m still driving around with 3 kayaks on the car, and I have to go in to Princeton for a lunch.  Yikes, I also had client calls, had to put a suit on (first time in weeks) and things got a little out of control. Have I mentioned I’m also slightly crazed when […]