Work friends are the best! Some days they are the only reason for showing up to work everyday. You spend most of your waking hours at work, so to be in an environment where you have a couple people who get it all. You can make faces about something said in a meeting. Watch the politics that go on around getting on a project or face time with a high profile client. Aside from work, you can talk about your lives - relationships, family, finances, grief, aspirations and failures

Gosh, it seems like ages since I wrote anything. However, I've still been focused on the goal. Sure, I went on vacation and so did you, but it's the freedom to breathe in a new air that actually gives you continued steam to stay focused on the goal. In some cases, like my own it actually gives you ideas that you hadn't thought about before. Yes, you come back to work a bit out of sync with the office. It seems like the emails will never get back to a manageable amount. And t

I've been out of the loop for a bit. I was out of the country; USA country that is. My 1st day back at work was a Tuesday. I literally stepped off the plane, picked up my bag, jumped into the car with my husband and went to work. Since I got there in the midst of Tuesday busyness happening I felt out of sorts. Then I realized being silent, still moving and functioning of course, but speaking only when necessary helped me to catch up with what happened while was out. Going ba

The workplace is tricky. The balance between getting along and sharing but staying private and not too personal is not easy. Sharing you went to great place on Friday night with the one you love, but sharing the reason you're no longer together and why is too much. However, there are work incidents you want to talk about with other people who can relate to what you're talking about. By relate I mean, the environment, the type of people, the workplace climate due to the econom

Have you ever been driving or looking out the window when it's raining? If you have, when you look beyond the storm either in the direction it hasn't gotten to yet or the sky it's already passed through, you see a clear sky. It is blue, a few perfect clouds and just enough light to give you comfort. The same calm can be found on the other side of workplace chaos. Workplace chaos can be a number of things: CEO is coming through unannounced, the contract deadline is approaching

The talk of the town in the last few weeks has been Meryl Streep, and not for her performance in her latest movie; Florence Foster Jenkins. Her speech was important and resounded with people on both sides, but what gave her speech it's foundation was her body of work. As you work, on those days you make mistakes and don't seem to meet the goals expected, it seems as though everyone is talking about your failure. Maybe weeks even a month or two pass and you still hear whispers