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    How To Get What You Want: The Power In Asking

    It’s Time To Say It or Stay Stuck. Though I was never a shy kid, it still didnโ€™t mean that I always asked for what I wanted, at least not up front and clearly. I 100% shook my head and bawled tears in my mumโ€™s kitchen at the myriad of colorful and flavorful foods I refused to eat for no good reason. Yeah, I absolutely did that, but letโ€™s press on, shall we. But when I did ask for what I wanted, it worked out more often than not. Now, with my daughters, I realize what I wish Iโ€™d practiced more myself: always asking. Emphasis on the โ€˜alwaysโ€™. Of getting…

  • Staying Grounded in “The Gap” Between Now and What’s Next

    Thereโ€™s that odd and uncomfortable space between your current life and the life youโ€™re still chasing โ€” and sometimes even between who you are and who you know you could be. And I donโ€™t mean youโ€™re ready to trade in your life as a GenXer, corporate baddie, whose kids are grown and almost flown, to become Dr. Jean Grey from Marvel. Able to read peopleโ€™s minds or control their thoughts. While that does sound delicious, itโ€™s not the direction Iโ€™m headed in. Iโ€™m talking about that gap, that itch for the โ€˜thingsโ€™ you continue to want to grab a hold of and run with, to stop it from slipping away.…