This blog is one of a three-part series on the health impacts of integration (wholeness) in our self-esteem, relationships and ability to enact meaningful change in our lives. Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need…
Adults or kids alike, many of us enjoy dressing up on Hallowe’en in our superhero or super funny costumes. Dress-up is a wonder-filled way to activate the imagination by pretending we are someone or something else. Not only do we…
Having a new perspective alludes to using all six senses — intuition as well as taste, touch, smell, sound and sight — to deduce what is real. Intuition, our sixth sense, is our brain’s and body’s ability to sense truth and make good decisions without having to rely solely on using empirical evidence (observation or experience) and analytical reasoning (theory or logic).
As I virtually witness outer world chaos materializing into global terrorism and other seeming madness, like Donald Trump’s ascendancy to presidential candidate, I wonder where this is leading. On the one hand, I feel far removed physically and psychologically from…
Image courtesy of Toa55 FreeDigitalPhotos.net In January, I felt within me a growing sense of impending change. As each month unfolded, some event emerged to affirm this knowing amidst my uncertainty. Such is the paradox of life.
Whenever life invites me to participate in change — which is pretty much every day — I am excited to dive into these new adventures. For someone whose attention and energy can get distracted by “little shiny bits,” the beginning stage of any change easily draws me in. Of course, these little shiny bits of inspiration are the drawing card for most of us.
There are no bad people, only bad systems frustrating good people from doing good work. In 25 years of supporting individuals and organizations to move from Now to WOW in their growth and development, the default reaction of blaming another…
As you may have reasoned from reading past blogs, my mind constantly seeks to draw out of life what I call universal principles. It’s my way of seeing the world from a simpler, less busy perspective. As an example, when…
It has been a long journey from World War I and II where competition and compliance were the reigning values and skills of the day. As I wrote last week, community living and collaboration (living and working alongside each other…
Over the years, my happiness and satisfaction within interpersonal relationships was determined by our shared values and compatibilities including the ability to authentically communicate what is meaningful to us. Fundamentally, sharing a set of core values — moral or spiritual…
In our ever-changing complex world, rethinking traditional problem solving methods has become necessary. Complexity has brought an inability to count on what once were tried and true solutions because the emerging problems themselves are hard to control and wicked in nature.…
What does it mean to you to be a leader in your own life? Much like the variety of definitions in the business world, how we each view leadership is likely to be varied and dependent on our personal experience.…
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