"How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people."~Edward F. Benson To be authentic is defined by dictionary.com to be trustworthy, honest, genuine, real. It is a particular way of dealing with the external world, while being faithful to our internal selves and our [...]
Last year, I studied and was certified in Judith Glaser's Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ) work. In her teachings, she describes the Three Levels of Conversation as follows: • Level I is transactional. This is when we exchange information. You ask. I tell. Repeat. Reverse. And so goes the dance. This is simply giving instructions or directing someone. • [...]
“Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.” George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) “Pygmalion” (1913) I spent many years of my career climbing the proverbial ladder in Corporate America. I did what I think is typical of [...]
Comfort Zones are the habits we have—neither good nor bad—that we need to be aware of, because they may be preventing us from playing our bigger games. Comfort Zones may be keeping us in the same old place, as they are just that—they are comfortable. And who wants to leave a place that is comfortable [...]
The movie…Urban Cowboy. The place…Outside of Houston. The bar…Gilley’s. A young John Travolta played a country cowboy who comes to the big city of Houston, hangs out at Gilley’s to learn about life and falls in love with an urban cowgirl, Debra Winger. It was a smash hit. Gilley’s was a country western bar complete [...]
Recently I've been telling a lot of people that I think we, as a society, are increasingly showing a lack of basic human kindness toward each other. It seems we were a lot kinder to each other a mere 10 years ago. I think our full, busy and stressful lives have been a big contributor [...]
I always took great pride in my ability to accomplish a lot. I was one of the fastest “Check it off, it’s done” people I knew. During a leadership program I attended, I pulled aside the leader and told her, “I am getting impatient with all these people. They seem to take forever to come [...]
I’ve been doing quite a bit of reflection over this past week and I’ve been looking at what will make me more productive. Self-confession, I have a focus issue and follow the shiniest object that appears in front of me. This causes me to have too much ‘to do’ on that ‘to do’ pile and [...]
Quite a few years back someone wished me good karma and sent me this list of what the Dalai Lama had to say to bring in a new year. I found this list, his “Instructions for Life” to be a very useful reminder of what is important in both my personal and professional life. I [...]
"If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two week's vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days." ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher [...]