I started my blog out of the belief I could help people. I was young, and thought I knew everything. (Funny thing is it wasn’t until I turned 26 that I actually knew everything, but you couldn’t have expected me to know that at the time.) So I started a shitty little website with a shitty […]
Archives for July 2016
Som Says: “Can you pitch?”
Earlier this week I was meeting with one of my coaches (I have a few), and before we got into our usual discussion he was lamenting the general inability for business owners to formulate a good pitch. He sits on the board of an investment group, a sort of incubation center for local small businesses […]
Someone Once Taught Me About Responsibility
When my mentor taught me the concept of responsibility was when I learned everything is within my control and I have no one to blame but myself. My life was a mess and it was my fault. I had too much “stuff” going on. He said don’t be a person who complains, Pat. Be a person who does something about […]
How “Power Posing” Can Increase Your Confidence
“People in power increase their size.” A while back, when I was first starting my foray into Corporate America, I read that successful execs had something in common – they spread out. Like a cat galloping towards a perceived enemy at an angle to increase its perceived size, people in power increase their size. At […]
Timers for Progress (Four Apps is Too Many… AmIRight?!)
I have three downloaded apps, thank you very much. My husband called me out last night for having “only one app” that didn’t come already installed on my iPhone. After I vehemently defended myself, I unknowingly began digging myself a deeper hole by proudly announcing that, in fact, I had three apps that I […]