by Yvette Nash | Jan 2, 2023 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
Last weekend I went to a silent meditation retreat in Waynesboro, PA. The evening before we were to begin our silent meditation practice, we sat around a big table, enjoying food and getting to know each other. Once they found out what I do for work, one of them—a...
by Yvette Nash | Dec 26, 2022 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
Imagine for a moment, if you will, that you trained for nine months to prepare for a marathon. Each day, you got up early, showed up with your running shoes on, and completed your run for the day. In order to keep your muscles strong, you also hit the weight room a...
by Yvette Nash | Nov 21, 2022 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
Have you ever been asked to work for free? Maybe the request came in the form of additional projects being added indiscriminately to your workload or getting a promotion without a pay raise. Very often, we say “yes,” hoping that something good will come in return. ...
by Yvette Nash | Nov 7, 2022 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
If you are a driven person, you’ll relate to this story I’m about to share. If you know someone who is (possibly) too driven for their own good, you’ll appreciate this story. Perhaps you’ll even want to share it with them. After two days of lying in bed, too sick to...
by Yvette Nash | Oct 25, 2022 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
It was a hot summer day, and I had been working on my fifth book for a few hours, when I decided to jump on my bike and head down to Dewey Beach to grab ice cream at my favorite place—Vanderwende’s. With an exceedingly generous serving of mint chocolate chip (my...
by Yvette Nash | Oct 11, 2022 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
“Sorry, we can’t get your house cleaned this month… we’re too short staffed. We can’t find enough cleaners for our growing business,” Alexia said. The following week there was a cancellation, and Alexia sent two ladies to clean our home. Curious, I asked them, “Why...
