So it’s important to intentionally, mindfully consider the enormous difference between what is meaningful and motivating, and what you “have to” do ……

My recent loss of my middle child Jennifer has inspired me to have more reflection time, really stopping what I've been doing and truly asking myself better questions.

Am I being congruent with my core beliefs and my highest values? Am I attaching strings? Am I putting conditions on my relationships? Am I being genuine and real? I'm taking inventory of what matters to me and being brutally honest with myself.

Sometimes during this hiatus I’ve wondered about topics I hadn’t covered yet. One emotion I really haven’t spent a lot of time writing about is the subject of love. Although, only in a manner of speaking, because love has factored into basically everything I’ve written about…….

It's the end of one year and the beginning of the next. This is a great opportunity to think about deep, essential matters. What I want to talk to you about is how important it can become to have people believe we are what we want them to, and how realizing it's actually not so important unlocks a new world of possibilities. 

We are all being forced to pay attention and learn rather than execute from a place of confidence that should have expired. The era of the perfect leader expired in about 2012. The world is still catching up.