Erin’s Blog

Getting People on Board for Where You Want to Go

I call it my Mystic Pizza summer. Except I was in Maine, not CT. I had no sordid love affairs. I did not drive a Vespa.  It was the summer I worked in Camden, ME, slinging lobsters at The Lobster Shack, coming home nightly drenched in lobster juice and drawn...

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Enjoying the Commute

About 2 months ago, I celebrated my birthday. Weird around birthdays. Don’t want the attention and then I get confused why no one does anything. I’m approaching what I’ll call the half-way-point birthday so decided to do a little assessment of where I’ve been and...

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Sinead O’Connor

My sister came home from college for the summer and I spied a new mixtape in her car console. I borrowed stole it, as you do, to get a sense of what the college kids were listening to.  I fast-forwarded through a lot of the songs. One, from the opening clack clack...

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How to Embrace Delivering Positive Feedback

We reviewed the feedback 101 section of the workshop. I covered the 9 positive/affirmative to 1 corrective feedback ratio as part of the 101. I asked if there were any thoughts and noticed a look of concern and mild confusion on a participant’s face.  “I think that...

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How to Change your Beliefs: What’s Useful?

Last night I met my two JAX friends for a hang. There were two options: a Downtown Art Walk or adult coloring at a bar. We choose option 2. Now before “adult coloring” can be construed as something it’s not, it is, rather, exactly what you would imagine: sheets...

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How do you Start a Hard Conversation? Clumsily.

She made a comment that set off an internal cringe. Her explanation of the comment, with full confidence and determination of proving her theory brought the slow rise of the internal double middle-finger. Then she asked a question…and that set me over. Full shut...

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Addressing Uncertainty to Open Up Possibility

Note: I had a conversation with Coco prior to writing and got her permission to share our car ride convo with you all. 😊 I’m Aunt Erin to 7 nieces and 1 nephew. The oldest starts her sophomore year in college in the fall. I’ve made it clear that they will all refer...

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It’s the Little Things… That Can Become GREAT Big Things

Crossing the street on Tuesdays and Fridays have become moments of pure joy for me the past three weeks.  Is there a puppy on the other side of the road, you ask? Someone handing out cash? Ice cream?  Nope. Not even close! The crosswalk light has been activated. ...

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