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Great Conversations

Throughout our day there are many opportunities to create Great Conversations. Through conversation, we find connections with others. It’s a way to build relationships and get things done. It’s also a way to find meaning and purpose within ourselves. A Great Conversation is one in which there is a give and a take, mutual understanding [...]

Listening to the Universe

Sometimes it takes a loud speaker, like the other night. I grabbed a salad and kept hearing “Assistance needed in the greeting card aisle.” “Manager needed in the Greeting Card isle.” And then it hit me, after four messages from the “universe” I need to pick up a birthday card for my brother [...]

Do. Or Do Not. There is no Try.

As the great Jedi-master, Yoda, said to his young protégé Luke. Some of the best advice about commitment and goal setting that I have heard. It’s in the power of language. The choices you make when you state – emphatically – to do something. Or not.

This time of year is filled with resolutions that are [...]

Excellent Habits.

On the elliptical machine at the gym, a women wore a shirt with this phrase – “Excellence is not an act.  It is a habit.” Last night I was reading in The Power of Focus, the precursor to Jack Canfield’s The Success Principles, a chapter of creating habits.  Interesting concept.  Habits are those things I’ve [...]

Play today.

Last post was about improv and innovation to improve the quality of life and take a couple steps closer to the Point of Passion. The POP is a state where Improv, Innovation and the concept of Play coincide and bounce together to create the type of life you – and I – desire.  A life [...]

Dealing with Difficult People

Just facilitated a workshop session for about 30 people on Dealing with Difficult People.   Went well – discussed information from Rich Brinkman’s book, Dealing with People You Can’t Stand.  He discusses nine typical “behavior” styles that people can exhibit when “their intent” is not being met. 
I’v used this material in the past – bottom line [...]

Just begin!

Sounds like good advice right?  Well, what have I been waiting for? Last February I went to a seminar about personal success and goal setting.  It was at this session that I committed to myself – and my table mates (Libby, Nanci and Mary) the goal of writing a book.  My goal, as it reads [...]