Most of us, at one point or another, take a moment to evaluate our lives and the paths that we have chosen to take. We each do it at different times and with different emphasis. Sometimes people do it around high school or college graduation time, when deciding what career to pursue, how […]
Purpose. What is purpose? Drinking coffee when you wake up and making a habit of drinking coffee only when you wake up? No. Trying to drink coffee when it’s hot and trying conscientiously to make it a habit to swallow it hot? No. Blowing white, shivering steam off the surface and then, guttering it down […]
Coaching is a type of therapy that has become very used over the last ten years. The term performance coaching first became preferred in the United States where, together with Neuro Linguistic Programming, it became part of a regenerated incredible wave of decidedly proactive therapy models.
In many ways both Performance Coaching and NLP are a […]
Direct Answers - Column for the week of November 25, 2002
My boyfriend’s daughter (I’ll call her Mary) got married six months ago. She is 19 and pregnant. My boyfriend (I’ll call him John) didn’t go to the wedding because he disapproved of her husband and the marriage.
The reason he gave for not attending […]
If we want to fill our heads with the doom and gloom society seems to thrive on, all we need to do is turn on the local news at night. To make that quantum leap toward personal happiness and success in life, sometimes we just need to do what so many people seem […]
Emotions are the most powerful forces inside us. Under the power of emotions, human beings can perform the most heroic (as well as barbaric) acts. To a great degree, civilization itself can be defined as the intelligent channeling of human emotion. Emotions are fuel and the mind is the pilot, which together propel the ship […]
Accessibility is a major focus in building a successful website. Some of major evidence of an effective site include and user friendly and directional user interface. This ensures that information is placed in sections of the site that are most likely to be found the easiest by the viewers. The less searching […]
“The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.” D.A. Battista
“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.” David Ben-Gurion
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” Dorothy […]
“The power of discovery enables us to achieve excellence without having to be “perfect.’”
- Thomas Crum, The Magic of Conflict
I arrived at the conference center ready to present my workshop. Almost immediately I noticed the room was too small and it was not set up as requested. There were no flipcharts and there were tables, […]
In the Northeast, we have a few months to prepare for winter by gathering firewood, securing windows and doors, and getting furnaces cleaned. As with any change, there is always a period of adjustment required. Often change in our lives doesn’t occur so predictably.
Change can seemingly come out of nowhere and catch us off guard. […]