responsibility

The point of taking a stand

I’m a recovering People Pleaser. My basic instinct is to help people, and I tend to go out of my way to make everyone happy – be it work or my professional life. Last year, right about this time, as an exercise from my coach I requested feedback from a few business partners and colleagues. […]

Taking responsibility

I am reading “Goals!” by Brian Tracy at the moment, and in one of his chapters he writes about the courage to take complete responsibility for one’s life. When I read those words I had a flashback to a day a few years back when this very fact dawned on me. I had been working in […]

Johanna’s Week Ten

Interdependence Somehow, somewhere along the industrialization of our world we took on a rather self-absorbed and entitled behavior. We tend to live our lives contained in this way of believing that we have a right to whatever could, would, might or definitely should come to us. We victimize ourselves and blame others, our situation, our […]