We all know them; you might even be one of them. They’re the bitter divorced people who five years later are still seething with anger at their ex-spouse. The question is, what causes the anger? The marriage, or the way they divorced? It’s ironic; people often divorce in the.
[Read More]What’s more important: knowledge, work habits or the way we interact with others? Recently, one of my clients was creating a project team. Several people volunteered, yet when they found out that Ms. So and So was going to be part of it, they quickly retracted their offers. The.
[Read More]If you’re under thirty-five, you probably don’t remember the days when people smoked in meetings. The image of a bunch of execs puffing away in a conference room seems like something out of an old movie. Your eyes start to water at the mere thought of it. Yet I.
[Read More]My neighbors just lost their 17-year-old daughter to cancer. She was diagnosed 13 months ago. Up until three weeks ago, she was responding well to the treatment, and everyone thought she was going to get better. Then a scan revealed that the cancer had returned with a vengeance, and.
[Read More]We all have our mantras, expressions like “money doesn’t grow on trees” or “blood is thicker than water.” They’re often the sayings we grew up with, and they can have a powerful hold on our belief system. For example, if you grew up with a parent telling you, “Don’t.
[Read More]We’ve all experienced those moments when the planets aligned, everything went our way, and we were on top of the world. Even if it’s been a while, you probably remember what it felt like. It’s a Mojo moment, and when you’re in it, it feels magnificent. Executive coach Marshall Goldsmith says,.
[Read More]I have a love-hate relationship with self-discipline. I love the results, but I hate the process. Discipline can be a loaded word. We tend to think of discipline in terms of punishment. As in, you have to discipline children, or when you do something wrong, the boss takes disciplinary.
[Read More]Do you ever feel like you’re surrounding by negativity? Sometimes it seems like everyone around you has a bad attitude. You try your best, but it’s almost impossible to get them to act right and play nice. But what role do your own thoughts and emotions have in creating.
[Read More]F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” Mary Kay did it when she combined selling and nurturing to create a cosmetics empire. Apple.
[Read More]Leave life to the Pollyannas, and they’ll skip us off the edge of a cliff, clutching a copy of “The Secret” to their chest, passionately chanting, “I believe I can fly, I believe I can fly.”
If only all the Eeyores of the world would start thinking more positively, we.
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