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2012’s Five: A Look Back
At 60, as I enter the final third of my life, my thoughts dwell more on significance than on success, on spirituality more than materiality.…
January 3, 2013
Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
Monroe’s Motivated Sequence is a suggested structure for organizing your thoughts or words to persuade or inspire folks to take action. Developed by Alan Monroe…
November 15, 2012
What is your 生き甲斐 ?
生き甲斐 translates from Japanese as ikigai (pronounced ee-ki-guy), which means “reason for being” Or put another way, – What gets you bounding out of bed…
November 13, 2012
Dominance, Dependence, Detachment: Three Responses to Life
How much are we driven by anxiety, by a desire for security? Karen Horney; 1885–1952, was a German psychoanalyst who postulated in “Neurosis and Human…
November 6, 2012
Quality is NOT Goodness, or Even Excellence
Quality is conformance to specified standards. Goodness is an undefended term, even an emotional one. Even excellence is subjective, a value judgment that will vary…
October 16, 2012
The Joys of Radical Acceptance
Everyone wants to change the world, no one wants to change themselves. Truer still, we want others to change (our partner, our kids, our boss).…
October 4, 2012
Why Not You?
Today, someone will change their life for the better. Why not you? Today, someone, somewhere will practice kindness to all. Why not you? Today, someone…
September 27, 2012
Successful Failure
A successful failure is one that is not fatal or catastrophic, from which comes a material or equivalent learning experience. Successful failures are errors or…
September 13, 2012
The Comma
Life is complex, business is challenging. If it were easy, it would already have been done a long time ago. The world is rapidly evolving,…
August 23, 2012
Avoid Defensive Bristling: It’s Not About Being Right but Getting it Right
You make a presentation to your boss’s boss. You’ve put a lot of hard work and late nights into the finished product. You’ve even done…
August 21, 2012
Under-Indulgence
Which tastes better? The first bite of that huge piece of mouth-watering chocolate cake or the last? Most say the first and by the last,…
August 14, 2012