Love Food, Love the Experience

Love Food, Love the Experience

After reading Loving Your Food, I thought long and hard about my current eating habits. While I enjoy the process of cooking, I admit the pleasure I derive from eating pleasure is less than desirable. My eating life has turned into a multi-tasking marathon; it is far...
Resolve to Be Resilient

Resolve to Be Resilient

The love of your life has died suddenly. Can you imagine feeling joy ever again? Sheryl Sandberg went through this experience. She’s written a book about it, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy. She believes resilience is like a...
Ask Yourself

Ask Yourself

The busyness of the fall is swiftly followed by the buzz of the holidays. But take a moment to reflect on how you and your team are functioning. Is your team running on all cylinders? Are you operating with minimal chaos (and drama)? How is everyone’s attitude?...
A Resolution You Can Stick With

A Resolution You Can Stick With

Yesterday, as I browsed through various mailers, I came across a store ad featuring a woman clad in a skimpy fitness outfit. Inside the flyer were various specials for fitness equipment. I found myself shaking my head at the irony of this ad; given less than a week...
Talk is Not Cheap

Talk is Not Cheap

Humans are (still) social creatures wired to connect. It’s true. And since in addition to loving food, we love people and serving others, we will always keep the conversation going about how to have a better conversation: one that leaves you and the other person...
Presence & Presents

Presence & Presents

Both are gifts you can get and give; but our presence is available at no charge to us and at great benefit to those around us. Human beings cannot multitask. What we are capable of is handling a number of serial tasks in rapid succession, or mixing automatic tasks...