I hope the archive list below includes something that will spark an idea, an action, a moment of clarity, and help you move toward success and happiness.
- What’s your back-up plan?
- Write your independence day story.
- What is this costing you?
- Small purposeful actions in hard times.
- Who needs to be involved?
- How story arcs help you design a better presentation.
- What are you assuming?
- Is Judgement Jeopardizing Your Business?
- Tiny Stacked Habits for Change
- How do you measure success?
- Thankful for obstacles and setbacks
- Want to be a more effective presenter?
- How to deal with an overflowing email inbox.
- Design Your Experience: How to manage email inboxes.
- Focus on the good: How to manage too many emails.
- Masterful Monday 2
- The Presentation Rock Star – Isn’t You
- Masterful Monday 1
- Defending Paper Planner Productivity.
- 8 ways to feed your brain with little added time.
- Understanding the Hero’s Journey for Business
- Your worst decisions make the best stories.
- One Powerful Question Defeats the Enemy of Success
- Will AI Kill Executive Coaching?
- Powerful Questions Save Time and Money
- What if the ice breaker was the workshop?
- Great Question!
- 3 Sources to Build Focus and Achieve More
- I’ve found my true hero. Do you know yours?
- Recommended Books for Success
- How much time should I spend planning my work?
- Fearless Success: Take the Challenge
- Give Your Business a Tech Check-up
- How to fix a derailed habit.
- Are Intentionally Small Business Owners Weird?
- What’s your next move?
- Difficult Conversations at Work: Ditch the eMail
- To-Do List Trick
- Professional Behaviors Leaders Expect from You
- Deaf Jam Presentation Secrets
- Why do I need to understand your perspective?
- Would you use an easy button?
- Establish positive habits like a tortoise not the hare
- Outgrowing Your Success Role Model
- What’s the cause of your overwhelm?
- Productivity Secret: Don’t do one thing today
- Chicken or egg? Clarity or Execution?
- How to Love Mondays
- How do you honor your individuality in a crowd?
- Confidence Building Tips
- Is there a benefit to being overwhelmed?
- How to Embrace Creative Chaos
- How Fearless People Start Their Day
- What one skill would change your game?
- What Advice Would You Give Your Younger Self?
- How to Inspire Millions: Carry a Brain in a Hatbox
- What everyone needs to learn about difficult conversations.
- Making Room for Success: Unexpected Aftermath
- Make Room for Success: Action Steps
- Make room for success: the first step
- Work from home slacker
- Be the exception – achieve your resolution.
- Productivity Tools for Teams: My top 3
- A Delicious Mistake
- Hack Your Productivity Hack, Change Your Life
- Time Management’s True Nature
- Why use storytelling in business?
- Time management: friend or foe?
- Simplify Project Management with Remember The Milk
- I’m not a #generation tag!
- What did you do in your first waking hour this morning?
- Motivate Others By Knowing Yourself
- A Tale of Two Mind(sets)
- Read more. Be happier.
- Text: Less is More
- Ground rules beyond the meeting room.
- Your Words Have Influence – The #WisdomWednesdays Story
- Confessions of a multi-tasking loser
- Soundbites are seeds of greater ideas
- To Inspire Action – Communicate with Humanity
- How I recovered 2 hours a day from the time thieves.
- Sleep your way to success.
- Stuck in a rut? Change one thing.
- Energy Management Strategies for Anywhere Workers
- You’re too late to be great.
- Overdue tasks and stinky cheese.
- Ban the laser pointer
- What you say – more than words
- From 43% Pointless to 100% Meaningful
- 43% of your conversations are pointless
- Why take action now?
- Misconception#4 – Learn once, know always
- How we change (or not)
- Energy thieves, productivity pilferers.
- Your Core Driving Values List
- Misconception #3 – Get it all at the workshop!
- This weekly email can increase your success
- Misconceptions #2 – It’s all about the slides
- Misconceptions of Communication Skills #1
- Your energy: more valuable than time.
- Effective Leadership Communication
- Delegate to time.
- everyday philosopher
- Is 15 minutes a long time?
- How we change (or die)
- Truth: Work isn’t a place, it’s what you do
- Think.
- Are you stifling your team’s productivity?
- Cave drawings – the powerpoint of our ancestors
- I choose now.
- Number 1 rule of presenting with impact.
- It’s time.
- forces of human existence
- A story of light and purpose.
- You need both permission and clarity to succeed.
- I have nothing to say.
- Become a confident speaker-Step 3
- Critical for Anywhere Workers: Acknowledgement
- Small Business Hero’s Journey: Your Vision
- Become a confident speaker-Step 2
- Become a confident speaker-Step 1
- 7 tips for email bliss
- Slides: The Leadership Soundbite
- Turn your ideas into results.
- Do you want a ritual or a habit?
- Bust through blank page angst
- Impact of Simple Data
- Happy Birthday GMAIL – Magic or Mayhem?
- The almond joy and mounds of communication.
- Existential Presenting: showing your underwear
- How to work
- PSM032: The Devil and Your eMail
- 3 Minute Storytelling
- Presentation Anxiety? Bring It On!
- PSM031: Deliver for The Pitch
- Create Your Own PresentationYOU Approach
- PSM030: Design for The Pitch
- The Secret of (not) being Overwhelmed
- Get the Most From Practice Sessions
- PSM029: Prep for The Pitch
- Handling Failure During a Presentation
- The 5 minute Speakers Warm-up
- PSM028: Location Location Presentation
- PSM027: Swiping to Overcome Blank Page Angst
- PSM026: Pump & Pen to Overcome Blank Page Angst
- How to get into your audience’s head
- PSM025: Fear: Spiders, Death, and Public Speaking
- Communicate with your actions.
- Meaningful Conversations Critical in the Future of Work
- Dreading that Promise to Present?
- Most Valuable Gift
- PSM024: Deliver Spontaneously thru Practice – Train for TED Final
- Welcome Conflict with Attitude in Existential Presenting
- PSM023: True Masters Get Tangled – Train for TED Lesson07
- PSM022: No Ego, No Sales – Train for TED Lessons5-6
- Persevere through Anxiety in Existential Presenting
- PSM021: Connect with Emotion – Train for TED Lesson04
- PSM020: Make the Complex Plain – Train for TED Lesson03
- Expect Anxiety in Existential Presenting
- PSM019: Show the real you – Train for TED Lesson02
- Change with Action in Existential Presenting
- PSM018: Dream Big – Train for TED Lesson01
- Our choices Define Us in Existential Presenting
- PSM017: 7 Confidence Building Tips
- Honor the Individual with Existential Presenting
- PSM016: Start with a Master’s Mindset
- Protect Your Prep Time
- PSM015: Powerful Questions to Engage Your Audience
- Are you a successful presenter?
- What is Existential Presenting?
- PSM014: How to read a virtual room.
- Costs of Waiting to Communicate
- PSM013: 10 Steps to Powerful Presentation
- Feedback: Only when ready
- PSM012: The Other Power of Body Language
- Signs you are NOT a savvy communicator
- PSM011: The 6 elements of a Story
- Truth? P.U. you stink at presenting
- Monotone message in a hi-def world
- PSM010: Always Be Prepared – with Segments
- How much ‘about you’ is too much?
- PSM009: How to talk to a brick wall
- Put Away the Super Suit
- PSM008: The right way to share your presentation
- Visual confusion
- PSM007: Whats in the Presenter’s Grab Bag?
- Practice for better, not worse
- PSM006: Favorite Tools and Apps
- When you say ‘I’ll be brief’ – be brief
- Reluctant Presenter’s Ponder #4
- PSM005: Key Differences – Virtual vs. In-person
- Pitching to investors? Stop thinking about yourself.
- A Word From The Pros: Deb Denis
- PSM004: Simple Ruthless Editing
- Phone Signal: strong or weak?
- PSM003: The One Thing
- 10 ways to practice presenting
- PSM002: Building Confidence in Presenting
- PSM001: The 5 Minute Talk
- Faking it won’t make it
- Shut Up and Listen
- The Good of eMail
- Reluctant Presenter’s Ponder #3
- Email is not evil
- Last Minute Gift Ideas for Anywhere Workers
- Reluctant Presenter’s Ponder #2
- Let’s Talk-How work gets done
- A Word From The Pros: Andrew Jennings
- Hammers, Nails, and emails – Choose the Right Tool
- Keep Your Eye On Design
- Small Biz Hero’s Journey: 1 Critical Question
- Reluctant Presenter’s Ponder #1
- 3 Unconventional Motivation Restoring Tricks
- Tips for Highly Sensitive Presenters
- 3 Productivity Remedies Using Remember The Milk
- Presentation Lesson: Giving Feedback
- 1 Productivity Secret of Home Office Workers: Napping
- TEDx Huntsville: Re-ignited in 2012
- 1 Success Step Often Missed
- Presentation Lesson: Asking For Feedback
- 4 Steps to Ignite Your Career With Masterminds
- 3 Favorite Photo Sources for Presenting
- 3 Step Fiber for Productivity Constipation
- Presenter’s [super hero] Carpet Bag
- 5 tips for virtual team success
- Anywhere worker: 3 steps that get you noticed
- 9 Favorite Presentation Tools and Apps
- How Do I Judge Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
- More than One Thousand Words – Pictures
- Read more books – get a (better) job
- Alternatives to PowerPoint – Whiteboarding
- Executive Coaching and The Queen
- Communication Preference Assessment
- A Case for Complex Visuals
- Taking Collaboration Virtual
- What’s Your Sign?
- Skill Building Series: Can’t Change What You Can’t See
- Creativity is Messy
- Skill Building Series: Interpersonal Savvy
- The Power of Why?
- Virtual Versus In-Person
- Skill Building Series: Team With Clashing Cultures
- Skill Building Series: Are You A Stick In The Mud?
- Less UMs More Credibility
- Your Turn: Pay It Forward Challenge
- Build Confidence
- One Thing You Need to Succeed in 2012
- presentation lesson: smile, you’re on candid camera
- avoid calendar bloat – get more done!
- Focus on clarity
- How Anywhere Workers Manage Isolation
- Happy Holidays
- Powerful Virtual Performance Reviews
- presentation lesson: mindset
- Gifts for the minimalist anywhere worker
- How to Ace that Virtual Interview
- TEDx Huntsville: Presentation Critique
- Your Hidden Leadership Strength: Coaching
- New Sole (Soul) for Your Business
- Boo! Did I Scare You?
- A Good 4 Letter Word: CASH
- How to Share – Your Presentation
- how to ooze charisma
- productivity secret: working hard on the wrong thing
- Think Differently About Presenting
- breaking through your comfort zone
- define yourself through action
- Presentation Power: The Impact Voice Adds To Your Words
- Back to School – The School of Life
- The Hero’s Journey: Starting a Small Business
- Presentations Are…About You!
- Connect with Your Inner Critic
- 4 keys to staying productive – anywhere
- Evoke Emotion Through Shared Experiences
- Virtual Collaborative Goal Setting
- The Prelude To Virtual Trust – Mindset
- There Can Be Only One – Objective
- Present spontaneously through practice
- Simple, ruthless presentation editing
- What to do with 90 minutes
- eradicate bad presentations with presentationYOU
- Stop Reading.Take Action.
- Present spontaneously through practice
- How To ‘Read’ A Virtual Room
- year of action and creativity-so far
- Double creativity with collaborative mind mapping
- what is your ‘morning paper’ about work?
- let out a roar at work
- From blank page to powerful presentation
- 12 elements of estimating work
- finding your sweet spot at work
- Get RACI with collaboration
- what is your Kryptonite?
- the new normal: tornado storm lessons
- You’re a coach? What’s that?
- distinguish yourself: 2 powerful success habits
- 3 biz books for taking action
- stop bugging me: handling disruptions at work
- interruptions: good or bad?
- how to conduct a personal quarterly review
- i have a mind map now what?
- avoid indecision-doubt-fear
- stop tolerating – reduce stress – increase productivity
- So you want to be a freelance writer
- a rose by any other name smells different
- do you trust yourself?
- is your inner child sabotaging you?
- rituals: creative productivity on demand
- from clutter to zen office
- out damn clutter
- inside ben franklin’s head
- the individual disrupts silos
- double your creativity with collaborative mind mapping
- stuff happens for no reason
- anywhere workers go frugal
- leaders do lunch: network in 20 minutes a week
- be quiet – get more done
- inbox zero in one day
- 365 day ‘take action’ challenge
- make your new year resolution an evolution
- holiday budget blown? be the gift
- 4 gift ideas from the anywhere worker’s elf
- happy holidays to one and all
- what a 30 day novel taught me about productivity
- How to approach your boss about telework
- dear santa, I need patience
- Coaching In The Moment
- anywhere workers do it with structure
- deep thoughts: life as a movie
- how to build rapport: don’t mimic me!
- give a damn busted? try these tips
- don’t label me
- 30 powerful questions for coaching and reflecting
- daylight saving: save 1 hour every day
- develop your critical thinking muscle
- halloween at the office: which monster are you?
- The Emotionally Intelligent Coach
- ask the coach: how to collaborate from a distance
- How to deal with the disruptive participant
- Social Networking For Introverts
- the devil in your inbox
- praise for procrastination!
- strengthen your strategic thinking muscle
- language + context + delivery = meaning
- who plays supporting role to your hero?
- how to be an artful collaborator
- The Gift of Stress
- How to Time Travel
- 25.5 Clues and 4 Remedies: You are NOT Self Aware
- 6 Predictions: The Future of Work
- Your Dog is NOT Your Business Advisor!
- Don’t Fear The Pink Slip
- Finding ‘Why’
- Are You Muted?
- Executive Coach’s 3 Twitter Rules
- Embrace Your Defects!
- How to Communicate with a Brick Wall
- Goals Have No Magic
- 3 Key Skills to Avoid Isolation as an Anywhere Worker
- The Anywhere Worker
- Goal Discovery Tool
- Why Do You Work?
- Coaches Mojo
- The Wisdom of Nemo
- Managing Individuality Across Generations
- Too Much Stimulation
- How Not to Read
- A Valentine, a Jar, and 2 Beers
- What is Existential Coaching?
- Welcome
- Take charge: Your Hero’s Journey