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Let’s talk about something that has quietly become common and, in my opinion, needs to stop. Ghosting. It originally appeared in the dating world as someone suddenly disappearing without explanation. Messages would go unanswered, calls ignored, and the other person would simply be left hanging, wondering what happened. Unfortunately, that behavior has now made its way into the professional world. Emails go unanswered. Messages are ignored. Conversations just stop. Somehow, it has become...

I recently learned a word that I had never heard before: Pronoia . If you’ve been following my Mindful Moments , you know I have a love for words — their meanings, their origins, and the energy they carry. I think that curiosity comes from my dad. He studied Latin in Catholic school back in the 1930s and loved explaining where words came from and how they were built piece by piece. I remember him breaking words down into their roots and describing how language evolved. Ever since then, words...

Unfortunately, many people right now are operating from one of two places: fight or flight. And honestly, given the state of the world, it’s not hard to understand why. There is a lot of uncertainty, a lot of noise, and if we’re willing to call it what it is… a fair amount of chaos . When we are in that reactive state, our leadership, whether at work, at home, or in our communities, tends to come from reaction rather than intention. I remember working with a client a few years ago who had...