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How to Keep Damage From Controlling Your LIfe

Every day I hear fascinating stories. Stories of love, joy, happiness, and celebration.  I also hear stories of pain, suffering, grief, loss, tragedy and trauma. No one is exempt.  No one. Our [...]

What is a Champion?

So today is the Super Bowl 50, the year 2016.  Seems the perfect time for some reflection about championship. Here are some thoughts from those acquainted with being a champion. When at a [...]

What is Good for Your Soul?

So, how are you doing with your new resolutions this year? Hmmm.  Yup.  Like most of us, you’re doing pretty well with some, not so well with others.  Am I right? I [...]

The One Element That Most Often Defeats Change

“Be gentle with yourself for you are living through a major expansion of your faith and how you use it in the world. You are rewiring decades of old beliefs and shifting [...]

The Most Lethal Factor Affecting People in the Workplace (and Everywhere Else)

Only 30 percent of American employees feel engaged or inspired at their jobs and the vast majority of U.S. workers -- 70 percent -- are not reaching their full potential, a Gallup [...]

Two Essential Ingredients Necessary for Change – the Hallmark Secret

Tis the season for Hallmark holiday movies.  I confess I have at least 10 of them saved on my DVR right now.  It seems this time of year I gravitate toward these [...]

2018-08-07T15:21:16-06:00December 6th, 2015|Change, Motivation, Positive Outcomes, Relationships, Success|

When Chasing Your Tail is Beneficial

Sent to me by Fran Kenny, one of my Facebook friends, I share this piece of wisdom today.  I have a slightly different take on some of these (imagine that!), and  I also [...]

Are You Just Being Too Sensitive?

“You’re just being too sensitive.”  Perhaps. Often, however, these words are spoken by someone who’s actually . . . frustrated or afraid of your pain (or your anger). I’ve observed we have a tendency to [...]

Using Disappointment to Leverage Success

We are instinctively created, as part of our basic survival, to avoid pain. We will do everything we can to push it away – blame, project, shame, deny, minimize, berate, distract, and [...]

The Value of Poor Choices (or Stop Feeding Your Inner Piggies)

I know people who feel like they’ve wasted years of their lives because of poor choices.  They spent years in a relationship that was toxic, years with an addiction, years at a [...]

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