by Gayle | Apr 6, 2015 | Articles
Inspired by a lecture from Sarah Lewis, author of The Rise, a friend shared with me a new view of mastery. Mastery is not success, but as Ms. Lewis offers, a confident pursuit. The attainment of the Gold medal does not represent mastery; it indicates success. Nor is...
by Gayle | Mar 2, 2015 | Articles
Does this action feel familiar to you? Fed up with junk email, even with a fully operating “junk filter,” spending hours unsubscribing from emails? Then within a few weeks it seems that the proliferation of junk mail is back? At most, 10% of the electronic...
by Gayle | Feb 2, 2015 | Articles
Last month you read: it was radical take action time. So I took action to begin a writing sabbatical and spend 90% of my time on specific writing projects. Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, where I was born and raised and where family remains, was my first destination to...
by Gayle | Jan 5, 2015 | Articles
When you receive this writing, I will be in full swing on my writing sabbatical. Yes, that’s right. I ceased waiting and striving to get everything “perfect,” comfortable, all set, working, just right, finalized, and complete. I sense an urgency moving through our...
by Gayle | Dec 8, 2014 | Articles
Growing up – from the age of 10 until leaving for college – the above inspiration, illustrated by a photo of a sunset, hung on my bedroom wall. During the impressionable years sleeping under and steeping in this message, the words became a part of me. I didn’t realize...
by Gayle | Nov 3, 2014 | Articles
In my weekly writing class, we explored “map” as a writing prompt. Insightful pieces produced a cascading of growth among us. So beautiful. The last sentence of my writing, “if you have no map you can never be lost”, drew me into further...
