Recently, I had a conversation with a client about her experience of dropping her I'm-in-charge-mask with her team. She joyfully reported that they all rose to the occasion when she asked for help problem-solving. In fact, she reported, they seemed to trust her more when she told the truth about what was going on in her organization than when she tried to gloss over obvious challenges with good cheer.

If we're lucky we have a trifecta — a run of three good things — in our lives. Sometimes a twist of fate brings a trifecta of pain into our days.