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Excuse Me! Your Life is Waiting!
(Third in a series of blogs urging, begging, pleasing with YOU to turbocharge your existence with a WRITTEN life plan for the coming year!) I think you…
December 22, 2008
The Transmission of Emotion: Contagious Happiness?
Can the happiness of people you don’t even know impact your happiness? Can the happiness of your friends’ friends’ friends affect your happiness? Yes. A…
December 19, 2008
Expectations Can Create Reality: On the Self-Fulfilling Nature of Social Stereotypes
Once, some social scientists, as they are wont to do, ran an experiment. They asked 51 women to chat on the phone with men they…
December 17, 2008
Choosing Your Reality
There is a story about a man piloting a small boat in an early morning deep fog on a large lake nestled in the forests…
December 5, 2008
What do you look forward to?
Self-knowledge* can be an elusive goal. I find I still have “built-in” assumptions about myself that are untested or even untrue about what will make…
December 3, 2008
The Ten Wisest People I Know
This is a short post about a process, not a result. I ran across the phrase, “The Ten Wisest People I Know,” in this morning’s…
December 1, 2008
It’s not that I’m not satisfied, it’s just that I always want more!
On the limits of ambition, the harnessing of desire, and the importance of balance. “It’s not that I’m not satisfied, it’s just that I always…
November 20, 2008
Connecting With Your Future Self
Edward Albee won his third Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play “Three Tall Women.” Three actors on stage (four if you count the mannequin…
November 5, 2008
You Cannot Not Communicate
Whether you realize it or not, you are communicating ALL the time. Most of us have heard the statistic that some 87 percent of communication…
October 9, 2008
If it were easy, everyone would do it…
If it were easy, everyone would do it. And it would already be done. Face it, 90 percent of the time the easy stuff has…
October 1, 2008
Attitudes are Contagious
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching? Whether or not we realize it, we spend most of our lives on one stage or another. We…
September 15, 2008