Posted in Learning and Teaching, tagged yoga, consulting, expectation setting, managing on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m a bit of a sloucher. It’s an ingrained habit which I’m not particularly proud of. In fact, if you forced me to make a list of 10 things I’d like to change about my physical presence, standing up straight would probably make the top 5.
Until recently, I didn’t seem to be able to do anything [...]
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged expectation setting, movies, Parenting Wisdom, role models, Westerns, working moms on May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I just finished watching 3:10 to Yuma, which was a completely enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours. Like all Westerns, it was a story about What It Means To Be A Man wrapped in a plot involving horses, guns, and manhunts.
What was particularly interesting about this one was it’s emphasis on parenthood - [...]
Posted in Direct Communication, tagged books, client management, expectation setting, Parenting Wisdom on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
I like to think of myself as open minded. But sometimes I realize that, well, my mind isn’t as open as I’d like.
Over the course of several weeks, I read several mentions of the same book, Momma Zen. I’ve been writing about parenting and yoga and how one informs the other in my life, and the book seemed [...]
Posted in Career Satisfaction, tagged committing to work, expectation setting, work/life, working moms on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I had a chance to have dinner with an old friend the other night. Once we got through the stories about how cute our kids are and the stories about what our mutual friends are now doing, we started comparing notes on the whole part-time working mom thing.
We both love working part time and really value the time [...]
Posted in Direct Communication, tagged expectation setting, jeans, managing, marriage on March 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was trying out a new pair of jeans by wearing them around the house the other day, and I asked USD if he thought I should keep them. He commented on the length and the color, but the crux of the question for jeans is all about one critical component: how my butt looks.
”They’re good,” he said, “better than [...]
Posted in Acknowledging Emotions, tagged client management, consulting, expectation setting, Parenting Wisdom on October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
One of the things I’ve learned from work is around setting expectations. The work that we do is often ambiguous and we often take our clients through a process is is scary, uncontrollable and unlike anything they’ve ever been involved in before. And we need to get through that process so that we can generate [...]
