the LTM blog

One area I continually feel like a failure in is conflict management and resolution. I didn’t grow up with good examples. My family was a fight to the death kind of family. If there was a problem it was an immediate war, which has made me avoid conflict in business. As I’ve grown, those lessons […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the phrase “time flies when you’re having fun” as I reflect back on the past 4 years. It feels like minutes have passed in my life but when I look at my girls I know it’s been a lot more time than that. They’re 4 years older, 4 years […]

Yesterday was one of those days. The one where you just want to throw in the towel. The day all of the work and intentions and negativity shows up at the door and demands to be paid in their currency known as attention. On days like that, you can’t escape the sadness and the curiosity […]

Sometimes you meet a person who has a “name” and you’re super disappointed that they’re not what you’ve expected (not that your expectations are fair) or you’re all bummed that they weren’t quite how they portray themselves online. I am sure more than one person has felt that way about me in the past and […]

You know, sometimes your life just goes off the rails. You move into something you’re passionate about, you find your spark, you are forced to really buckle down on something for a bit and you lose the person you were before, for a short while. I have noticed this kind of thing play out a […]

In January, I decided I was going to take this year to do a few things very intentionally after working pretty much straight through for the last two years.  In 2015, I decided I needed to pick a word, I needed to set some intentions and I needed to stick to it. Thank you, Ali […]