I moved to northern Delaware in June 2002 to take a new role within Accenture. It was a brand new adventure for me professionally to step into an HR leadership role for an outsourcing delivery center because my prior roles were predominantly focused on consulting teams.

How often do you deal with evaluating what’s the best decision to make? If you’re like everyone I know, this is all day long.

Some of them are more inconsequential (in the grand scheme of things) - should I work out now or later and some are big ones/life-changing, like should I terminate this person or give them another chance?

We all have our personal challenges with the idea of control.

We either like to exercise a high level of control, which brings challenges, or we don't like the idea of control and let things/people be as they want to be, which also brings challenges.

Today is the first day of my vacation in 2024. I'm excited about what we'll experience, nervous that all may not go as smoothly as we have planned (but honestly, I've planned very little of this experience), and motivated to change my day-to-day dynamics in a way that allows me to rest, restore, reflect, and generate new ideas.

If you're like me at all, you get excited for a holiday weekend because it means at least one extra day off of work.  Even though I have a flexible schedule, I love this additional feeling that I can take a break. 

We all intellectually know how critical it is to manage our energy (even more than our time). The question is, though, whether we actually practice what we know is critical for us to be high performers/high functioning in our lives.

If any of you are like me, you start looking at a problem and want to solve the 20 things that will need to be decided eventually. You want to see a clear map of how you will get from A to Z.

I like the following exercise: 

Bring me to the table if you need a, b, or c.

If you need x, y, or z, even though I could help you, I'm not the best person for those.

I always pay attention when a topic comes up more than once in my client discussions or networking chats because those tend to be good topics to ensure we cover here together.  This week, the focus was on knowing when to walk away from something (a job, a relationship, a hobby, a dream, etc.) even though you may still love parts of it.  When topics like this arise, I recommend people read Annie Duke's most recent book, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away.

Many of you may remember that one of my three words of the year is fun.  My intention of having this as an anchor word was to make sure I was focused on enjoying where, on what, and with whom I spent my time.  I wanted to consistently ask myself, " Will this be fun?  and "How can I make this feel fun?"