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Authenticity, Vulnerability, and Being Who I am
I'm not afraid to let people know who I am. In fact, I sometimes feel like I am too open about my insecurities, doubts, and struggles. And yet — I find myself telling it like it is: to current clients and trusted advisers and also to potential clients, to team...
End of Summer Fun: Polls and Questions
I love questions, silly and serious. Perhaps you've noticed? By combining a blog post with questions on other social media sites, you can extend and repurpose the content. For example, yesterday, I posted about my Twitter Tips E-book and introduced the topic with some...
Winding Down
Summer is winding down. My kids head back to school next week. This week also marks my husband's birthday (he's turning 43 on Thursday.) Our family will celebrate the end of summer with a Major League Baseball game — Go Brewers — and some time to connect as a family...
Thankful For: 5-10
My office window is open to the dark morning. All I see is black; I feel cool air drifting in — just enough so that I am comfortable, not enough to send me searching for a sweatshirt. Over the next hour or so, a line of light will appear to illuminate the trees and...
Give freely and generously
Hoarding is a serious issue. I have been helping a friend confront this head on. She's not as far gone as the people you see on TV, but she's on her way. She's my age with two kids and a husband and a house that is becoming less and less useable. She's incredibly...
May I Speak to You Graphically?
This is the second tip in my new series about repurposing content. In last week's tip, I encouraged you to write a series of content based tweets from a blog post. In this week's tip, we'll use those tweets, or you can start fresh with content from a new blog post. I...
Virtual Team Building On the Run
The Weaving Influence team is a virtual one, and most of us have not yet met in person. I've met all but one team member face to face, but none of the current Weaving Influence team members have met in person (yet!). Although we are geographically dispersed, we are...
Starting My List: Thankful For
Today, my team member Carrie is celebrating two years of her thankfulness list. I've kept lists of my own — not online — and I agree that regular focus on gratitude is a powerful practice. I first made a list like this at a seminar with Rich Mullins during my college...
The Reluctant Twitterer
I like to think of myself as an early adopter. As a member of the last generation to suffer the miseries of erasing carbon copies on a typewriter, balancing a checkbook by hand, and lying awake half the night trying to remember the name of an actor or musician, I was...
How Do You Like Your Quesadillas?
One of our favorite ways to eat leftovers is to make quesadillas. If we have leftover meat of some kind — typically steak or chicken — we'll slice it up, crank open a can of refried beans, saute some onions and peppers, sprinkle in some grated cheese, and construct...
I’m Not Ready Means It Doesn’t Hurt Enough
The words in the title of this post come from a tweet last night from my friend Dan Rockwell, @LeadershipFreak. I retweeted them because they seared into my thoughts. I retweeted them because I have seen them demonstrated in my own life, countless times. Here's an...
A New Season of Growth
Earlier this week, I talked with my friend Whitney Johnson about the upcoming back to school season. Her daughter Miranda and my daughter Cami are entering 6th grade. Back to school time holds so much promise and excitement for our children, and for us. What new...