The MeEO™ Minute
The way we work, grow, and succeed is changing. I’m here to explore what that means for you. This blog is a collection of insights, strategies, and reflections designed to help you become a MeEO™ and take ownership of your career and life.
I pull from books, podcasts, research, and personal experiences to uncover practical ways to stabilize, grow, and thrive in today’s evolving world. If you’re looking to create a stronger, more sustainable foundation for your career and life, you’re in the right place.
Let’s build something great—together!
Scope Creep at Work
When working on a client project, the topic of scope creep comes up. This is when a discussion or sub-assignment emerges that wasn’t planned. The scope of the project has crept into something different. Often this creep takes up more time. Reducing the revenue from...
Discovering Our Personal Outdoor Formula
We’ve heard it before: “Get outside, it’s good for you.”But what if we turned that advice into something uniquely ours?Something enjoyable. Repeatable. Even a little playful.This summer, let’s discover and design our Personal Outdoor Formula. Not because it’s another...
The Five Feelings that Fuel Our Work
A MeEO Framework for Staying Grounded, Energized, and in Control We often treat work as a checklist of tasks or a ladder to climb. But what if it’s actually about how we feel? I believe our careers are at their best when five essential emotional needs are met. The...
Plot Your Way out of To-Do List Overwhelm
Yesterday, we explored how to use CliftonStrengths to shape the way you naturally approach tasks. What energizes you. What drains you. And what might keep you stuck. But awareness isn’t enough. You still have the list. The pressure. And the uncertainty of where to...
Use Strengths to Get Unstuck
We’ve all been there. Staring at a massive to-do list, not knowing where to start. Everything feels urgent. Nothing feels doable. We close the folder. Or the notebook. Or just quietly panic. That’s to-do list paralysis. And it has less to do with laziness than we give...
Weekly Summary – 5.3.25
Welcome to the Saturday Summary. What I’ve Posted – Blog Summary This week the blog covers several topics in our overall wellbeing. I hope you find at least a few that resonate with where you are right now in your journey. Thought Leadership. The first post of...
Finding Your Fingerprints
We spend most of our time documenting the footprints of our careers. We highlight the companies we worked for. Titles we held. Projects we worked on. Yet, it’s more difficult for us to identify or tout our fingerprints. The part we played in the success of a project....
Be Your Own Anthropologist
When we work on our personal development, we study ourselves. We learn our strengths. Explore our habits & routines. Design our environments. Understand the culture(s) we live in. Just like an anthropologist studies human beings and their nature, we study...
What is Really the Goal
Often when we set goals, the goal is not really the goal. Each goal is building to something larger. The ultimate goal. Sometimes we are aware of that goal. Sometimes we aren’t. Finding the Real Goal To understand the goal that our goals are laddering up to, we need...
The Perma Model for Wellbeing
In 2011, psychologist Martin Seligman introduced the PERMA model. You can hear him describing the concept in this video. PERMA is an acronym for five dimensions of wellbeing that leads to a flourishing life. Below is an overview of each: Positive Emotions: The...
Thought Leadership
What is “thought leadership”? We see it in others we admire. Most of us don’t think it applies to us. Yet, we all have a thought leader inside us. Today, we are going to explore and discover our inner thought leader. Identifying those things that others look to us...
Weekly Summary – 4.26.25
Welcome to the Saturday Summary. What I’ve Posted – Blog Summary This week the blog covers a variety of topics and provides a couple MeEO posts before the Membership begins on May 1st. Manage, Maintain, and Modify. The first post of the week talks about the...
Are MeEOs Also Employees? Yes!
With the membership launching, I’m learning a lot about what MeEO means to others. One question that has come up is “can I be a MeEO if I work within a company?”. The answer is a resounding “YES”! Each and every one of us is a MeEO…or has the potential to bring it out...
MeEO Membership – Monthly Themes
With the MeEO Membership signup open and the first month launching in just a couple weeks, I wanted to provide some additional details on what you can expect. The goal of each month is to provide content around a theme. Enough information so you feel personal growth....
The Scaries
The past six months, I’ve been facing the scaries. I didn’t realize I had them. They are worse than fear because they hide. We can face our fears. We can’t face our scaries until we know they exist. I now recognize some of the signs that scaries are lurking. My...