Gratitude is a Gift

Gratitude is a Gift

Gratitude, the quality of feeling grateful or thankful, is a gift that leaders give to others and to themselves. Over the past two decades, research has proven that being intentional about gratitude increases optimism, reduces physical ailments, lowers anxiety and...
Cultivating Kindness in Leadership

Cultivating Kindness in Leadership

I’ve always wanted a personalized license plate. The state where I live, Virginia, has the highest number of personalized plates in the country. One in four. Each year when it was time to renew my registration, I took the easy route and renewed online instead of...
Greatness in Service

Greatness in Service

Everyone can be great – you only need a heart full of grace. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It was a long skinny room off the kitchen. Our “storage” room. Sometimes it would be so packed we could barely walk into it. The room housed our dryer, Christmas decorations, and...
Be Legendary

Be Legendary

I was standing in my stairwell headed down the stairs when my husband’s cell phone rang. It was our youngest son calling from college mid afternoon that Sunday. I could overhear the conversation. My son was calling to talk about something that surely was one of those...
Practicing Reflection

Practicing Reflection

The past three months have seen our country battered by COVID and suffering through the pain of losing more than 100,000 of our fellow Americans and the devastating economic fallout. Then the attention of the country switched from the Coronavirus to the violent...
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