OK, OK, OK already! Yes, there will be an informational webinar entirely about the Becoming You Three-Day Intensive this Monday, 5/4 at 10am PT/1pm ET. You have questions, I get it! And so I’m coming with answers – about the curriculum, the attendees, and the outcomes you can expect. This is our 11th cohort, so I have data – and opinions, of course! To hear them – and more – register below and see you soon!
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Mother’s Day is upon us shortly, prompting me to reignite my annual call for a much more sensible holiday.
Sisters Day.
I mean, mothers, let’s celebrate them, fine. I love it when my kids use the occasion to espouse their affection and assure me all is forgiven. But I also know that one’s relationship with one’s mother can be complicated. And by “complicated,” I mean, the source of some very deep, um, junk. Not for everyone, of course, but for a lot of us.
Sisters are another matter. |
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Sisters are your forever allies. Your “I don’t need to explain my expression because you know what this expression means” besties.
They know where all the skeletons are buried, because they buried them with you. And that is even on the days when you are not getting along.
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God blessed me with an older sister, Elin, and a younger sister, Della. (I snapped the picture above of my sister Elin, who visited this past weekend. The cute guy is her husband of 45 years, Ned.) While we look alike and almost eerily sound alike – especially when we laugh – we are as different as chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream. Different life and career choices, different parenting styles, different love languages. We don’t play the same sports, watch the same shows, eat the same foods, or wear the same kind of clothes, although one day not too long ago, we did show up at my mother’s house all wearing white pants and yellow sweaters. It was weird, and it made us hoot – sounding exactly alike.
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Because I spend a lot of my life thinking about values, it astounds me sometimes how different our values are. My top value in The Values Bridge is Cosmos, my faith, followed closely by Radius, the desire to change the world, and Achievement. Elin’s #1 value is probably Belovedness (my dead-last value!), followed by Familycentrism, and Della’s is likely a tie between Non Sibi, helping others, and Voice, self-expression. |
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How wonderful it is that our different values do not stand in the way of our profound love and respect for each other.
How wonderful that is for sisters everywhere. How wonderful that is for everyone. One huge point of knowing our values in the details is so that we can talk about them with the people we love, and then walk alongside them with compassion and understanding.
I have done that my whole life long with my sisters, which is something to celebrate, wouldn’t you agree? So no shade on Mother’s Day. (OK, maybe a little.) But especially big love for Sisters Day, and the enduring bridges between us.
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For full disclosure, I am going to admit I hate and regret the few times my sisters and I have been on the outs. That happens because sometimes we – humans – are boneheaded.
I am a human. My sisters are superhuman and have always brought me around.
If you are currently being boneheaded toward a sister, stop that. You can be pistachio and she can be butter pecan. Life is too short not to agree both are delicious in their own way. |
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There would be no New York without Central Park. Its 843 acres of winding paths, botanical gardens, and hidden forest glens make this crazy, chaotic, overwhelming metropolis liveable. And I haven’t even mentioned the tennis courts, skating rinks, and swimming pools, and the fact that the park is an off-leash dog oasis before 9am. I love-love-love that place.
I love it so much, in fact, that every year I consider it an utter joy to attend the famous, fancy-schmancy fundraiser for it known as the Hat Luncheon. It is not cheap, but neither is the park’s upkeep, which runs $70 million a year, almost entirely funded through donations.
I also like getting gussied up and being tickled pink by how creative New York’s ladies can be when they get gussied up too. |
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The only problem is that this year, as every year, I wait until the last minute to get my hat. So help me out here. Which should I go with? The options are pictured. I am waiting for your votes at [email protected].
By the way, my sisters’ votes count double.
As they should.
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With a tip of the hat and love for acres, |
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What's coming?
→ May 2026 Three-Day Becoming You Intensive here
→ June 2026 One-Day Becoming You Intensive here
→ Becoming You Certification Program here
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Sixteen Words That Will Change How You See Yourself…and the People Around You (Part 3)
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What if the reason we so often talk past each other in relationships, at work, across dinner tables, isn't stubbornness or selfishness, but simply that we don't share a common language for what we actually want? In the third and final installment of this series, I share something I've never done publicly before: my core 5 values, ranked. They might surprise you, and will no doubt prompt you to question how you've been organizing your own life.
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