Sweat beads glistening, Cold, breath sucking, skin tingling Plunge in the pool!–Water Haiku I love the water! Just anticipating diving in causes my breathing to change. I grew up near the water, on the water and I’ve spent so much time in the water. In high school, I worked at the local pool life-guarding and teaching swimming. I spent almost eight years of my life working out in the pool year-round in the early mornings and…
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No culture war diatribe here. Just some simple snippets to share. I’ll be posting these on my Instagram stories @gunthermary each day as we head into Valentine’s Day. For my blog readers, I posted them all together. You can right-click on the images to copy or save and send them in a text with a note to a loved one. These are some of my favorite authors. I don’t know about you but I need…
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A little over a year ago, I found myself sitting in a large conference room listening to a speaker guide us through an idea that I had been thinking about and sharing with my team over the past few years: Limiting Belief. Limiting beliefs are those ideas and tapes you play in your head that stop you from growing in life. The funny thing about limiting beliefs is that once you’re aware of them you…
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Well Begun is half done Aristotle Some things in life get started for us! Like the NEW YEAR. So Happy NEW YEAR! A year full of possibility. How did the New Year begin for you? Did it begin with anticipation or anxiety? For some of us, The New Year is like a fresh book at the beginning of a school year! But for many already a mere 6 days into this fresh book the spine…
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. Dietrich Bonhoeffer During this time of year, it’s hard not to compare lives or FB posts to who has it going on better than I do. It would be easy for any of us to go to that soul-crushing place of comparison rather than rest in reflection. I…
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It’s one of the most profound and difficult lessons every MBA is taught: Ignore sunk costs. Money and effort you spent yesterday should have nothing to do with decisions you make tomorrow, because each decision is a new one. Seth Godin Sunk costs have more to do with everyday decisions than we realize. It isn’t just a hard lesson for the life of a business. It’s a hard lesson for the business of life. Life…
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