“Focus on what you can control. Let go of what you cannot”. A mentor said that to me many years ago. Let go of what is out of our control. Sounds simple enough be but we know it is not simple. Been thinking a lot about stress and anxiety lately. Sometimes it can feel like there is a lot to be anxious about in our world right now, right? But on a personal level, as I examine many of the sources of my own stress, some of it comes down to letting go. Letting go of what I cannot control....

When my daughter was 7, I bought her a picture for her room of a unicorn outlined in silvery pink glitter that stated, “Be a unicorn in a field of horses.” I loved that picture.

I recently came across an artifact from my past…22 years past. It was a “yearbook” from a two-year leadership development program I was in at the first company I worked for after college. The Explorers…that’s what the program was called. Flipping through the pages of the yearbook and looking at this young version of myself…it felt like a different person. Back then I was 28, single and living in New York City. I was a group Marketing Manager for a series of B2B magazines at a global...