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Difficult Conversations Don’t Have to Be So Difficult
Ah, difficult conversations. Those conversations we want to avoid, be it our neighbors’ noisy parties or the Team Members who seem to have lost their…
August 6, 2020
Claiming Your Golden Shadow
In Jungian psychology, the “shadow” refers to an unconscious aspect of the personality, everything of which a person is not fully conscious i.e. the shadow…
July 21, 2020
You Can’t Get it All Done
Since you will NEVER get it all done, you must learn to focus on getting the most important things done. However, to do what is…
June 18, 2020
Excuses for Failure Aplenty…Unheeded
Absentminded i.e. quite capable of driving to the grocery store and coming home empty handed Spent a fair portion of each day lost in own…
May 21, 2020
Back to The Well
To go “Back to The Well” is to go back to the source of something valued, anything that nourishes you, replenishes your strength. When the storm…
May 12, 2020
Junzi or Xiaoren: Which are you calling forth?
Junzi and xiaoren are two concepts from Confucianism and refer to two types of leaders. A junzi is one who puts the people first, speaks…
May 5, 2020
Escaping the Tunnel
Tunneling occurs when we are (or at least feel we are) overwhelmed. When folks get slammed with problems, they often enter the tunnel, adopting tunnel…
April 23, 2020
The Healthy Upside and Potential Downside of Amour Proper
Amour proper is French and means literally “self-love”. As a philosophical concept, it is found in the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Blaise Pascal, La Rochefoucauld…
April 2, 2020
Summum Bonum
Summum bonum is a Latin phrase meaning “the highest good” and represents a concept introduced by the Roman philosopher Cicero. While some philosophies associate the…
March 31, 2020
Embracing MFD
MFD stands for “Mostly Fine Decision” and means what is the minimum outcome that is satisfactory, that you would be fine with? MFD is designed…
February 25, 2020
Choosing The Road Less Comfortable
A life of severe abstinence can be as destructive to the soul as a life of excessive indulgence. As always, it is the Middle Way…
February 20, 2020
A Popular Bit of Advice…That is Occasionally Out and Out Wrong
Never Give Up Folks, I’m about as driven as they come, stubborn and head strong. And yet… I’ve learned that there are many paths to…
February 4, 2020
Words that Guide My Soul
Even the best of us have our off days; days when we choose to see slights in what is often merely the absent mindedness of…
January 30, 2020
Time is Not Created Equal
All minutes are not the same! The value of a minute varies according to the time of day and YOUR corresponding energy levels. If you…
January 21, 2020
Accepting Help
This blog is in many respects a mea culpa, an acknowledgement of a personal growth opportunity. In the past, I’ve frequently been challenged to accept…
January 9, 2020
Forget New Year’s Resolutions
Better a small promise kept than a larger one broken. Most New Year’s Resolutions fail because they are lofty goals with insufficient foundation. If it…
January 2, 2020
A DAY OF THANKS, A MOMENT OF PERSPECTIVE
“The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.” —…
November 28, 2019
But Then I Won’t Have Time to Finish My Emails
A Senior Team Member at The Collier Companies was encouraging someone to get out on site more often (we rent Apartment Homes). The response? “But…
October 15, 2019
Dismissive Positivity v. Validation and Hope
We all want (need!) to be heard, to be understood especially in times of stress and troubles. “When you’re weary, feeling small When tears are…
October 10, 2019
The Provocative Power of Plateaus
Most of my life I’ve lived with mood swings. Bigger, wilder, and scarier in my youth, milder and moderated in my mature years, the benefit…
August 8, 2019
Are You Capable of Second Order Thinking?
First Order thinking is simplistic, short term, single move, single player, linear thinking i.e. the “thinking” level most stop at. Second Order thinking is much…
July 16, 2019
Finding My Best Self
Sometimes I lose my best self; find myself distracted and drifting off course. Usually it is because I get busy, then wake up to find…
June 13, 2019
How to Build a Ship
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them…
May 16, 2019
The Golden Mean
How good do we have to be? Life is so much more than just “feeding the beast”. Simply attempting to “satisfy appetites” is an endless,…
May 14, 2019
Choosing to Find Peace Today
The mind, the ego, the subconscious often have multiple reasons why peace must be just around the corner. Or, why it is difficult/impossible because of…
April 11, 2019
Are you Watering Dead Flowers? Stop Watering Dead Flowers
Where in your life are you wasting effort and energy? With who or where is your life force not being valued? Sometimes you have to…
January 15, 2019