Deliberate Careers Blog

The “Yes, and…” concept comes from improvisational theater, but it has powerful applications for leaders. In Improv, each actor is expected to take the cue from other actors as true and build on it ra...

For many adults with ADHD, including myself, time can feel like a foreign concept. As a result, we might struggle to keep track of time, lose track of time, or find it difficult to estimate how long t...

As I sat in my car waiting for the traffic light to change, I saw a young cardinal hopping along in the grass on the side of the road.

While destined, I’m sure, to become a beautiful red bird with a ...

Recently at sunrise along the Texas coastline, I watched over 100 endangered Kemp’s Ridley hatchlings released through a recovery program.

Many of the hatchlings wouldn’t make it to their first swim ...

Recently, I found myself feeling tired, rather used up, burned out, and I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t get everything done. My husband, bless his soul, said, “You know, no one could do everythin...

This summer my family volunteered to work on a garage that had been flooded more than once and now sat dank, closed, cluttered, and unusable. Not an easy or pleasant task, but we were, the four of us,...

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Recently, I had to take my own “medicine” as a coach. I hate it when I have to do that, don’t you?

My 50th birthday was coming up right in the middle of the holidays. Over the years, I have been to f...

To say my daughter, Haley, is independent would be an incredible understatement. I guess that is what you get when you get inspiration for your child’s name from a comet. Her story isn’t just about ha...

Once, when first starting my business, I was preparing to give a talk for a large group at eBay. This was literally a dream come true for me. The talk, “I hear voices in my head, do you? How doubts, f...

One morning a few years ago, I got that call. You know the type of call I am talking about. The type of call that you never want to get: something is wrong, something is terribly wrong and you must co...

I started my first business when I was 4 years old. We lived in a little pink brick house at the end of a long gravel driveway in Atoy, Texas. I started out collecting rocks to sell; not just any rock...