Live Into The Answer
“I just wish I knew how this was all going to shake out.” After weeks of deliberation my client, Susan, has accepted a new job in her firm reporting directly […]
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Digging In to Loneliness: Embracing Step Four of Honorable Closure
My heart skipped a beat when she said, “My apartment gets so quiet at times. That’s the hardest part.” Susan came to see me six months after ending a 15-year […]
Fail Forward into Learning
Joe just completed a 6-month work engagement. Happy to complete one consuming body of work and pave the way to the next, he called me for an Honorable Closure session. […]
Malaysia Flight 370 – Time Trumps Honorable Closure
The other day someone asked me how families from the missing Malaysia flight could have Honorable Closure. “It’s way too soon for that, I said.” Now is a time for […]
Grief Has No Timeline
This weekend I realized I have been feeling a low-grade melancholy, a heaviness of heart that cannot be attributed to the winter blues. (I live in draught-stricken California where winter […]
The Agony of Defeat–Lessons from Sochi
“If you aren’t falling down, you aren’t learning anything” — My high school ski instructor In a […]
Sticks and Stones…
In the 1980s, Steve Jobs assembled a group of A-Players inside Apple to engineer the first Macintosh. It wasn’t unusual for Jobs to storm into an engineer’s cubicle and spew […]
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What are Your Power Songs?
“He who sings scares away his woes.” – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist The fourth step in Honorable Closure is to Reclaim Joy by Inventing Your Next Story. One of […]
Completing The Year
Wisdom cultures have long acknowledged the value of bringing Honorable Closure to endings, believing it paves the way for greater blessings. Why? Reflecting upon and articulating our experience [...]
Summon Your Inner Mandela
At Nelson Mandela’s memorial, President Obama said, “Nothing about Nelson Mandela’s life was inevitable. He channeled his sense of justice into wise (and shrewd) actions that busted [...]