Posts Tagged ‘mimi donaldson’
Auspicious August for Women
August was an exciting breakthrough month for women in many areas. Olympics: Every participating country had at least one woman on its team. For the first time in Olympic history, there were more U.S. female athletes competing than males. Forty years after its passage, Title IX came…
Read MoreNFL Hall of Fame: Attitude of Gratitude
Another NFL Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony did not disappoint. Huge, strong, accomplished football men baring their souls, sharing their hearts, choked up with love and gratitude for their mothers, grandmothers, coaches, teammates, and more! Everything a football girl could love. And love it I did. I did find a recurring theme this year. It’s…
Read MoreMimi Vacation
Hi everyone! Just a quick note to let you know that I am on a Mimi Vacation this week. I look forward to posting an informative article next week. In the meantime, I’ll leave you with a postcard from paradise!
Read MoreAudiences Going for the Goal
In the past few days, I have spoken to over 300 women in two different audiences. They were both annual Women’s Conferences in two parts of the country: Palm Springs and Chicago. Yes, the weather is quite different, but the women are not. I did the “Necessary Roughness” speech, tailoring the material in my book…
Read MoreThank Your Little Voice for Sharing!
Since everyone else is talking Tebow, let’s talk about the other game: the one that inspired me to tell a group of California Women Business Owners (the actual name of the group) to cut out the defeatist attitude if business is not what it used…
Read MoreHandling Your Holiday Stress (Wrapped in 5 Easy Tips)
A solution-focused, light-hearted approach for handling this season’s anxieties comes with a tangible payoff. You choose to be happy. Yes, but in these troubled times? And with THAT family coming over? By following these 5 tips, you can improve your ability to focus on what matters and enjoy your holiday. (I’ve teased you a bit…
Read More5 Tips for Handling Holiday Stress – #5
Practice the fine art of patience Practice “Wait Lifting.” This is the ability to wait and have patience in today’s 24/7, frenetic “now” culture. Patience is how you handle the wait of the world. By starting with light waits – not getting frustrated when the computer doesn’t boot up fast enough for you, or the…
Read More5 Tips for Handling Holiday Stress – #4
4. Make full use of your “Internal Whistle” This means what it means in football. To stop the action, the whistle blows. We need to take a deep breath and take stock before letting a stress trigger or a whiney nephew make you go nuts and say something you’ll regret. And before you scream at…
Read More5 Tips for Handling Holiday Stress – #2
2. Tap into your “personal control panel.” This controls what happens in your mind. Remember to “Play,” but skip the “Fast Forward,” because, as Gandhi famously said, “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Also, “Fast Forward” can lead to “self-fulfilling prophecy” scenarios in your head like, “Oh I know what’s going to happen:…
Read MoreDid You Inherit a Bad Team? Learn from Tebow.
You start a new job as a leader of people—a manager: entry-level, mid-level, or executive. You “inherit” a group of people: employees you did not hire. They are already “trained” in their jobs—you did not get to train them. They have gone through several managers before you came along. They did not fare very well. …
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