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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
The Power of Framing
“A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation…is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.” — George Matthew Adams; 1878–1962 We…
November 29, 2012
Count Your Blessings: Make it Truly a Day of Thanksgiving
Want to cheer yourself up? Find energy on even the darkest days? Count your blessings! Enumerate all the things you have to be thankful for,…
November 19, 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
Confirming Satisfaction and Creating Closure: Key Customer Service Checkpoint
Closing the communication loop is vital. Too often a business gets a request or complaint and takes action to resolve the situation but never calls…
November 8, 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
The Pleasant Life, The Good Life, and The Meaningful Life
In “Authentic Happiness,” Dr. Martin Seligman; 1942–, postulates that there are three paths to happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.…
November 1, 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
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
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
Using Tiger Woods’s Clubs Every Day of Your Life
Step on to the putting green with me. I hand you a putter and I tell you it had once been used by golfing great…
August 9, 2012