by Lisa Boesen | May 7, 2019 | Blog Posts, life events, Managing Change, Resiliency
Turning 60 has its interesting features, like having to add cancer, thyroid, and heart medications to your travel list. Among the feeling that now perhaps you are finally becoming a wise woman, and in six months actually becoming a babicka to a granddaughter, there is...
by Lisa Boesen | Feb 23, 2019 | Blog Posts, Performance Improvement, Positivity, Resiliency
Pain. Misery. Discomfort. We can’t escape it. We are human, this is life, and we were never promised a pure life of joy and happiness free of difficult times. Ask anyone who has had a challenging co-worker. I believe though, in most situations, a little...
by Lisa Boesen | Feb 1, 2019 | Blog Posts, grief, patience, Resiliency
My Dad died 10 years ago yesterday. He was 74. As the years go by, the grief becomes less obvious. I don’t fall into a ball of human on the floor and wail. To be honest, for the past two years, I sadly have almost forgotten the day. When I do recall his death, the...
by Lisa Boesen | Aug 22, 2018 | Blog Posts, Kindness, Relationship Management, Work Life Balance
As a second-year beekeeper, I continue to learn from my “girls”. Beekeeping is certainly a science but there are also elements of intuition and knowledge gained from delving into a group in nature that for centuries has coordinated work, built colonies, survived,...
by Lisa Boesen | May 3, 2018 | Blog Posts, Civility, Compassion, Empathy, Self-Management, Work Life Balance
At the beginning of my compassion seminars, I generally started with these three questions: It’s easy to be compassionate when…. I find it hard to be compassionate when…. I’d love to be more compassionate when… Most respondents say it is easy to be caring when people...
by Lisa Boesen | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog Posts, Performance Management, Personal Accountability, Self-Development, Self-Management
I’ve been a backyard beekeeper since last October. I am by no means an expert and this Spring has been particularly difficult for me as a beekeeper. In brief, my colony had two queens and one Saturday morning, one queen and 10,000 worker bees swarmed to my...
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