What’s your staying power? In a challenging conversation, my “stay” might be not unlike 4-month-old Tibby the puppy’s.  I might have made the excellent choice not to leave the room or bolt.  I might even resist glancing at my phone. Nonetheless, my physical presence is all that’s still in the conversation.

Getting clean can mean around substances, messy drawers or food. While those are all topics that are reasonably on people’s minds as a new year dawns, I’m thinking about cleaning up in a different way.

Perhaps you believe – as I did -- that leadership needs to involve a suit, CEO energy and Very Serious Stuff.

I imagine there is some positive spin we could put on what feeling ashamed feels like, but I can’t, at this moment, tell you what that might be. 

What if this IS your life? What if your butt will always look this way? Or your work demands will never relent?