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Accountability, Responsibility and Joyful Contributions

Recently, my good friend and continual source of inspiration, Bob Burg, challenged us to reconcile a couple of well-known and generally accepted idioms. “If it is to be it’s up to me.” And “No one does it alone” So which is it? Are you Atlas with the weight of the world on your shoulders or [...]

The Power of Play (What I learned from kids at St. Jude’s today)

Today I rode down to Memphis with my friend, Tammy, and her 8 year old son, Robbie. In October of last year the doctors removed a lump from Robbie’s leg. After considerable amount of time and consernation on the part of many top doctors at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere he was diagnosed with a rare [...]

Coaches, Mentors and Magic Dragons

NOTE: This video references a Facebook page which has now been moved to http://www.facebook.com/DixieDynamiteCoaching – come join us! Last month I asked my twitter community to weigh in on a discussion I was having with myself: “What is the difference between a coach and a mentor?” I’ve been called both – I’ve also been a [...]

What Game Are You Coaching?

You find out, “Life is a game of inches.” Never mind football. Whatever game you’re playing, whatever game you’re coaching, it is a game of little differences. I’m hearing how tough it is to win right now. I’m sure we’re all hearing and seeing it and, even if we aren’t experiencing it, we’re still feeling [...]

Why Gurus Don’t Live on Mountaintops

I never pictured myself as a guru. For one thing, they apparently spend a lot of their time at the top of very high mountains. Mountaintops tend to be chilly places and I’m not fond of temperatures below 60 F. Nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there. For another they were [...]

Inspiration can be Humbling

Today I had my thoughts taken out of my head, massaged into one succinct sentence and handed to me wrapped in a compliment without ever sharing a word. So what’s a girl to say except, WOW! I was writing a blog post last night. I decided the power of my passion was interfering with my [...]

Roadblocks, Speed Bumps and Stepping Stones

So you’re barreling down the Career Super Highway and, oops, what is that you see on your horizon? A roadblock? A speed bump? A warning sign? A detour? Or maybe just a helpful stepping stone to bridge your way between where you are and where you want to go? We’ve all had those days, sometimes [...]

See Yourself – See Your World

A Reflection: • Image, representation, counterpart… • Fixing the thoughts on something, careful consideration… • The return of light heat, sound after striking a surface… • The bending or folding back of a part upon itself… Since the beginning of civilization we have sought to see ourselves. We looked for mirror images in still pools [...]

Overcoming Programmed Responses – Or How to Not Lead With Your Knee

Since when does our mental/emotional programming affect our knees? Well, think about what we often refer to as a “knee jerk reaction” – that “no-time-to-involve-the-reasoning-mind” response that we often fall back on when we are cornered, pressured, stressed, attacked or when we even think that we are any of those things. Knee jerk reactions are [...]

The Blog Stalker

When I first started exploring the idea of sharing my thoughts through blogging one of my networking buddies recommended that I visit the blog of a well known tech blogger. He made that recommendation because I said I didn’t want to write about facts and events, I wanted my blog to be about ideas, notions [...]