The Choices We Make Years ago when I was a student teacher in a fourth-grade classroom. I did an exercise with my students that involved making a long paper “chain of events.” The students had been reading a book and I wanted them to grasp the impact that each event...
Atta Boy Why do people find it so difficult to appreciate the things they accomplish in a day? So often I speak to clients who want to spend the first five minutes of a coaching session beating themselves up about things they didn’t accomplish. Wouldn’t it be wiser to...
Time Saver – Touch it Only Once It’s 10:00pm. Do you know where your day has gone? Time has a way of moving even if we get behind. The day comes to a close and unless we are very careful, we end our day no further ahead than when we started. I teach my clients...
Stop Being Offended Wayne Dyer, best-selling author, and lecturer uses the phrase, “stop being offended” in his highly acclaimed Power of Intention series. Very simple words, very simple thought. Yet, it is likely one of the most difficult things I had to learn as I...
Ten Ways to Get Your Resume Noticed In today’s competitive job market it is sometimes difficult to stand out from the crowd. I’ve spent years screening resumes and I will be the first to admit that too often qualified candidates miss interview opportunities because...
Does Your Ego Control You? Ego. Webster defines Ego as the “I” or self of any person. Eckhart Tolle in his book A New Earth describes “ego” as an “illusory sense of self”. He refers to ego as a major aspect of the human dysfunction. And, based on my recent...