Barbara Brooks created Flamingo Strategies LLC to help clients stand up and stand out, through telling and sharing their stories of impact and purpose.
Hacking Away at Happiness is her blog.
All tagged honesty
At sundown tonight, our fate for the coming year will be inscribed. And ten days from now that fate will be sealed. So at least until then, I hope to stay curious.
Going on so many dates may seem like torture. But it also creates compassion. For myself, and for the other guy.
Despite the dire nature of the holiday, I found tremendous comfort, again this year, in the familiarity of the prayers and songs of the season.
Whether we aim to jumpstart our writing—or to make sense of our lives—isn’t everything we need to know located in the glimmers we experience or observe?
Liars are everywhere and consequences are nil. But by telling the truth we distance ourselves from the bad guys. And we experience real personal gain.
Visual cues—combined with our overdeveloped sense of certainty—may cause us to miss what’s most important.
As a professional teller of stories of generosity and impact, my only job is to empathize with the teller's emotions.
Typically, contestants prepare and rehearse, but I put my name in the hat anyway. The theme of the night was “Tests,” and I was going in cold.
We win. We lose. We root for the underdog. And if we're lucky, we might even nail the landing.
We tell ourselves honest lies all the time. Don’t we all—especially we artists and writers—need to believe in the relevance of our work? And don't we ache to be heard?
