Credit: Wix I have spent the last quarter of this year very silent on my blog. Welcome back! I have spent most of the last three months in quiet reflection (although I have been sharing my insights on work over on IGTV and nuggets of wisdom with my Facebook group). Life is like this - waves of up and down with calm moments in between. In October, I manifested two speaking engagements that put me in front of total strangers. Then I became a published thought leader in my pr

My sarcasm only gets me in trouble when my brain-to-mouth filter is malfunctioning. Sarcasm is funny except when it's not. This is the paradox of sarcasm. It is the core of most comedy shows. We laugh until it hurts. Then we laugh until we cry. Then we cry. This is the paradox of sarcasm. And because it gets us laughs, attention, and sometimes positive reinforcement, we dig into the habit deeper until it becomes a part of who we are. Our addiction to sarcasm is not unreas

Silence is not something that is valued by our culture. We have devices to that play music, buzz, and stream video content. The places that we live, work, and play are full of noise. Living in the city numbs us to the level of noise that is in our environment. While combing through our social media accounts, we are drawn to video or animation that is matched with music and sound. We play video games that are come alive with rich sound to enhance our gaming experience. Whe

We live in a blame culture - we want to know whose fault it is and how they're going to pay. Dr. Brene Brown Too many people are in love with being "nice." We live in a space where we don't want others to be mad at us (or not like us). So we spend a lot of time and energy between being NASTY out of frustration and making it up by being NICE on the back end. Or overwhelming people with our NICE so they won't notice our NASTY. I was once the Queen of this strategy. I would d