Month: November 2012

November 27, 2012 Anna Birch

I had one of those grins on my face that would make strangers wonder if: A) I’d just done something incredibly mischievous; B) I was just plain weird; or C) I was actually as happy on the inside as I was showing on the outside. It was C.  I had just delivered an executive training…

November 20, 2012 Anna Birch

  It hit me while listening to a keynote session by John O’Leary last month. Opportunity and purpose collided in that moment. John was describing the gap that we, as adults, battle daily between “What we KNOW/BELIEVE” and “What we DO.” How does this gap increase or decrease in our lives when it comes to healthy lifestyles,…

November 13, 2012 Anna Birch

“Fine…” When did that magically become the answer to nearly every answer to every question I ask my pre-teen daughters?! This past summer,  I picked up my girls up from our Adventure Links’ camp and I was bursting to ask them them all sorts of questions about their week.  Their response, even when it didn’t…

November 6, 2012 Anna Birch

What an adventure it is to engineer and develop solutions to solve a challenge. Just last week I had a corporate team experience the “Tower of Excellence” where each shrinking platform demanded adaptation and by the end, a revolution, in how to achieve success. Simply, the only parameters I provided were that everyone needed to be…