One evening, I went out to dinner with friends and enjoyed a great conversation. But the next morning, when I woke up, I realized that a couple of new responsibilities were now on my agenda. Somehow, I had agreed to call an acquaintance to ask a favor. Plus, I offered to help raise funds for...Read More

What’s True And What’s Myth? USA Today revealed the satisfaction level executives have with their jobs. Job/Satisfaction Level Finance – 68% Human Resources – 65% Marketing – 63% General Management – 61% Sales – 54% The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index confirmed those earlier findings. They have polled literally millions of adults since 2008. They discovered that...Read More

What makes one person persevere through tough circumstances while others fall to pieces? Which individuals will enter and complete their Navy Seal Training and which ones will quit? In the national spelling bee which students will advance in the competition? Which teachers in tough areas will still be teaching at the end of the year...Read More

You can be certain that this year will include uncertainty. Yet that should not stop you from moving forward on the abundant landscape stretched out before you. There will be fears along the way. So we tend to dread fear. All uncertainty has a certain amount of fear. Seth Godin poses another alternative, “how can...Read More

The Roman astronomer, Ptolemy (1500 A.D.), shocked the world by asserting the idea of a universe where all the planets rotated around the earth in concentric circles. It was far from perfect. It wasn’t as predictive of the planet’s movement as many “experts” would have liked. But it was better than anyone had come up...Read More

  As we approach this year’s closure, what is the #1 quality that will propel us into the new year – with a head start? It will be your desire. Desire is the fire within! So let’s take the time to measure your desire meter. If I want to get an idea of a person’s...Read More

Did you know that the typical internet user is twice as likely as others to feel that people can be trusted? Facebook users are the most trusting of all.  They are three times more likely to trust people than non-internet users.  One of the reasons for this is because it increases the brains release of...Read More

Ebola and isolation are used in the same sentence. When someone needs to be quarantined isolation is a stopgap. But it was never intended to be a way of life. Yet people — without even thinking about it — isolate themselves all the time. Isolation Limits potential Restricts capacity Lowers impact Who are your allies,...Read More

How many times have you heard the statement, “people have a natural resistance to change?” Is that true? Dig a little deeper and you might discover resistance to change is just the symptom. People have a natural resistance to feeling incompetent. Humiliation is a deep fear we all possess. We don’t want to feel or...Read More

Anxiety has been around for millenniums, but the concept of biological stress is a fairly recent study. In the late 1950’s Hans Selye began to identify and document stress. His discovery has exploded into multiple sub studies on how to combat this debilitating menace. Stress will always be with us, but there are proactive ways...Read More