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Think it through

By Camille Smith / May 5, 2024

Window shopping – it’s inexpensive and fun until … We’d been admiring an artist’s print for a couple of years, delighted by the style, colors, and whimsy, wishing we had it on our wall.  Then the “fun until” happened … the 50% off sign appeared.  “Let’s get it!” hustled us to the cash register. We…

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Wrong number, Right conversation     

By Camille Smith / April 20, 2024

It takes me a while to toss out stuff – especially quotes, articles, and poems that could help me and my clients see a new possibility.  During a recent culling, I came across notes from a phone call. I hope in reading this you’ll remember a kindness you offered someone. Perhaps you thought it was…

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High Heel or Birkenstock?

By Camille Smith / September 21, 2023

If you’ve seen Barbie, the movie, you know the choice she made.      (If you haven’t seen it yet and have seen Matrix, think: Blue or Red Pill?) Isn’t it always about our choices?  No matter your role, title, gender, age, education, politics, religion – no matter the memberships you claim – our choices…

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Look!! Up in the Sky!! There’s another one!! (Part 2)

By Camille Smith / February 17, 2023

Make a choice: Choice 1: If you’ve got only 30 seconds, draw your own conclusion about why these 2 pictures appear in a blog on leadership.   Choice 2: Skip Part 1, dive into Part 2:  Look, there’s another one! Choice 3:  To get the background for Part 2, that includes recommend actions for the…

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Are foreign weather balloons messing with your airspace?

By Camille Smith / February 7, 2023

News Flash: Chinese weather balloon hovering over Montana! When I heard this news, thoughts rushed in: If the Chinese didn’t mean for this weather balloon to be over Montana, if it was pulled off course by unusual weather patterns, why didn’t they contact the US when it crossed into US airspace and alert us? They…

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My Horse Teacher

By Camille Smith / August 16, 2022

In January, a friend said she was having fun volunteering to feed horses at a horse-assisted therapy center. I checked it out and, as they say, the rest is history. In February, I began the adventure of learning horse. (That sentence may not be grammatically correct, but it’s accurate, in my experience.)  I also began…

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Happy New You!

By Camille Smith / December 17, 2021

Recently I gifted myself with the Sunday NYTimes. I browse each section, dog-earing what to read, tossing the rest. The articles broaden my thinking, the images inspire me, the theater ads make me want to live in NY. A headline in the 12/5 edition stopped me cold: Matthew McConaughey on trying to become living art.…

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It is what it is. And…

By Camille Smith / October 12, 2020

I admit it — I get annoyed when someone says, “It is what it is.” Seeking to relieve my annoyance and use my energy more productively, I’m trying out a possible solution. Here it is: When someone says, “It is what it is,” I now ask, “What is the “it” that you are referring to?”…

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Always learning

By Camille Smith / September 14, 2020

It keeps dawning on me that no matter what I’m doing, thinking or with whom I’m interacting, I’m learning, consciously or unconsciously. A question I’m now asking is: What am I learning? To challenge my thinking or argue that I’m right (again)? To argue my logic or listen from my heart? To hold my breath…

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Bolt of Insight

By Camille Smith / July 31, 2020

This is what we found as we laid out the parts to assemble a shade awning for our patio.         My reaction, “Crap. Everyone one of these bolts is bent and broken.” Oops. The bolts weren’t defective. They were an innovation. I couldn’t see it at first. My knowledge and experience of…

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