“It’s only in looking back that all the pieces, including the detours, fit together with wonderful logic,” says Jean Chatzky Detours unnerve me: the unexpected roadblock to my carefully laid plans; the panicky feeling of not knowing where I’ll end up or how long it will take get there. The road not taken—once you take Read More
As you might expect, the ladies attending the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Women’s Conference in New York this month were tall, blonde and beautiful—with a sprinkling of brunettes, redheads and greyheads. They also included royalty—the lovely Princess Madeleine of Sweden.
Today my daughter, Keenan, turns 23. My son, Tucker, turned 21 five days ago. I want to salute them. But probably not in a way they will recognize. The common Mom sentiment, knee-deep on Facebook, is that children are blessings. And, of course, they are. When she walks in a room, Keenan fills it with Read More
One of the bravest and saddest letters I’ve ever worked on is below. It’s by Kim Manoogian, a Vice President at The Business Bank of St. Louis, where she focuses on business development within the Private Banking Division. I met Kim when she invited me to conduct a LTMYS Seminar for the St Louis chapter Read More
What are the small things you do that make you happy? I find if I can incorporate just one or two of the activities on my list (below) in any given day, I’m much happier. When I tick off five or six it’s a red letter day.
This letter is from Lisa Rangel, the Managing Director of Chameleon Resumes and an attendee of the B.I.G. Summer Summit in July in Ringwood, NJ. The messages seem as pertinent to me today as to a 25-year-old, the age Lisa has chosen to write to herself.
I’ve been stuck on Success Step 4: “You know you are not like everyone else.” This is what cosmetics entrepreneur Bobbi Brown tells herself in high school, meaning ‘You are not tall, blonde, athletic and capable of comprehending Algebra, like all your friends.’
At my bidding, fifty fabulous and intrepid women held Letters To My Younger Self Parties for their friends in May and June. The bonding and outpouring of wisdom in the resulting letters has been so moving that I wanted to share a few of them.
I’ve been trying to put my finger on the quality that was so distinctive about B.I.G., a women’s organization I had the great good fortune to get to know when I gave the keynote at its first annual summit last Thursday. Energy poured out, as the “pods” of this fast-growing organization connected with
When I asked friends and readers to submit letters to their younger selves, one of the first women I heard from was Kristin Brown. “I started to read “What I Know Now” and discovered that this whole idea started after the death of your mother,” she wrote. ” My letter is really all about my Read More
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