WE ALL SEEM to feel the shifts of uncertainty that are occurring at multiple levels in our lives, including our spirit. Acknowledging these feelings about how we approach our daily our lives will hopefully open up an opportunity to stop and reflect about our behavior patterns, prompting us to ask questions.
Ask yourself: Are you stuck in denial, apathy, self-doubt or blame? If these few samples of obstacles to everyday courage resonate with you, then you're stuck in the past unable to embrace the major transitions going on in our culture for the past several years. Please know that it...
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Courage, Golf and Self-Discovery
What do yoga and visualization have to do with improving your golf game? More than you think. In March 1999, Susan Morgan wrote an article entitled “Par Excellence” for Mirabella about a five-day workshop called “Golf in the Kingdom: An Explor
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How to Alleviate Back Pain from Too Much Sitting
Sitting for one hour correlates to a decrease in life expectancy of 21.8 minutes, according to an October 2012 study from the British Journal of Sports Medicine. In this study, they found that on average, people sit for 50-70% of the day. Sitting als
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3 Ways to Manage Conflict When Your Brain is Hooked on Being Right
I'm sure it's happened to you: You're in a tense team meeting trying to defend your position on a big project and start to feel yourself losing ground. Your voice gets louder. You talk over one of your colleagues and correct his point of view. He p
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5 Strategies for Time Management
Do you sometimes feel like time is getting away from you? I make list after list of what I want to accomplish each day – and often get a large chunk completed - but never seem to get everything done. Now that I make my lists on my PDA, it's easier to
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FACE IT! To Forgive Someone Takes Courage
What is forgiveness? How do you go about forgiving? What happens when you actually go ahead and forgive? Forgiving requires a courageous choice. The courageous choice is whether you are willing to consent to this healing. In Greek, to forgive m
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Sad? 8 Ways to Beat the Blues in Winter
Winter weather, for most in the Northern Hemisphere, is cold, dark and dreary - with little chance of a break for several months. The transition back from the holiday season with its increased activity and social engagement - parties, gift giving,
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A wise friend once shared with me her secret to a successful and happy life . . .
"Forget the back-story" - Leslie Ayers, The Job Search Guru
Part of "Accepting what is," the first step in practicing Unfear, is to let go of assigning blame. When we get caught up in the back-story, in assigning blame, we arrest forward movement. Assigning blame is a diversionary tactic. It is avoidance, a fear reaction which imprisons us in the past.
When we focus on assigning blame we create ego conflicts and a toxic work environment. Accepting what is requires focusing on...
A leader I know and much admire is Howard Behar, the former president of Starbucks North America and Starbucks International. Howard tells about the time when he received a call in the middle of the night at his home in Seattle alerting him that three Starbucks employees at the Georgetown store in Washington, D.C. had been shot and killed, including an 18-year who had just recently begun working at Starbucks, his first job. Behar immediately called Howard Schultz, Starbucks' CEO, who was in New York City at the time.
What Schultz didn't do, says a lot about his character. ...
When achievement is the result of a team effort - not just individual performance - we tend to overestimate our contribution to the final victory. I once asked three business partners to estimate their individual contribution to the partnership's profits. Not surprisingly, the sum of their answers amounted to more than 150% of the actual profit! Each of the three partners thought she was contributing more than half.
This overestimation of our past success is true in almost any workplace. If you ask your colleagues (in a confidential survey) to estimate their percentage contribution to your enterprise, the total will...
Sometimes things happen in our lives that seem like coincidence, but in reality, it is the Universe intervening to make our lives easier, or even to save our lives.
A man - I?ll call him Bob ? recently had his life saved by what most would describe as ?coincidence.? As he was on his way to go golfing, a friend, who happened to be a doctor, called him. Excited to hear from him, Bob invited his friend to go golfing as well, and he did. Bob was ?lucky? he did when he ended up having a heart attack at the...
