by Joanie Connell | May 25, 2015 | Blog, Parenting for the Workplace, REAL Life Skills, Resilient, Values
When did it stop being OK to be OK? Now it’s great, wonderful, amazing, stellar, and even epic. Epic. Really? What does epic even mean, anyway? Heroic and monumental are some of the definitions from standard dictionaries. The Odyssey is a classic example. The Urban...
by Joanie Connell | Mar 19, 2015 | Blog, Leadership, Life Change, REAL Life Skills, Values
How do you measure up? “What’s your number?” One executive asks another, engaging in the not-so-subtle competition of whose is bigger. I am a woman so I don’t get asked this question very often. Rather, it’s about my children. “How [successful] are your kids?” That’s...
by Joanie Connell | Dec 4, 2014 | Blog, REAL Life Skills, Values
By Joanie Connell Have you thought about how ironic it is that Black Friday falls the day after Thanksgiving? One minute we’re appreciating what we have and the next we find ourselves seething for what we want. For some of us, it’s a game to win, for others, it’s...
