Now What?® Coaching
from Laura Berman Fortgang
What was your criteria for taking on your job or career? Did you follow a romance or spouse to a new city and take whatever you could find? Did you set out to fulfill the path you chose when you declared your college major? Did life lead you to something unexpected? Knowing what got you…
Cilia: Plural noun, singular cilium [sil-ee-uh m] 1. Biology. minute hair-like organelles, identical in structure to flagella, that line the surfaces of certain cells and beat in rhythmic waves, providing locomotion 2. Anatomy. The eyelashes The Latin for eyelash is cilium and in biology, cilia provide locomotion for the cell. Moving your career forward is…
It happened again. I went to yoga and was inspired to share a distinction that could be useful. Again, the instruction was about the yoga poses, and it also made so much sense for life. The teacher was encouraging the students in the room while we were all in a one-legged pose spreading the rest…
I’ve written before about being Jewish and why I love Christmas. This past Saturday, when I went to yoga for the first time in awhile, I heard something from the teacher’s dharma talk that gave me new insight into the ‘Secret Sauce’ that makes the holiday season so special. This may seem obvious, but stay…
We are entering American Thanksgiving week which also heralds the start of the ‘holiday season’. It’s that time of year again. That time when we re-evaluate and think about what we want the next year to bring. It’s a time when we reignite charity in our hearts and feel a little more tender, maybe even sentimental. In…
Standing in front of 100 people the other night at a public lecture, I had two men sitting across the aisle from each other who did not know each other, but who unfortunately had a lot in common. One was my 83-year-old father who has been retired for twenty years. Retirement wasn’t his idea, but…
