Empowering people to make strengthening choices

Who’s Your Travel Partner?

Who’s Your Travel Partner?

Whether you consider your marriage strong or weak, you can only benefit from strengthening it.  Yesterday  you did a self-assessment.  Now let’s take a look at the triad that is your marriage – you, your partner, and the unique team that the two of you form together.   Let’s begin with a little quiz.  You can […]

By Roger K. Allen, Ph.D.


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Are You Happy With What You See?

Are You Happy With What You See?

In a small city in Ohio, police offers make a monthly visit to all members of the city council to deliver a package of information for the upcoming council meeting.  One Tuesday morning, officers arrived at one council woman’s home to find the door ajar.  The officers knocked and called but no one answered and […]

By Roger K. Allen, Ph.D.


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Don’t Cheat Yourself Out of Prosperity

Don’t Cheat Yourself Out of Prosperity

After over two years of unemployment, Jim Moret finally had a job.  A good job – he’d been hired as the chief correspondent for the television show, Inside Edition.  He should have been happy . . . but his upside-down mortgage and mountain of debt had him desperate and scared.  He writes, “ . . […]

By Roger K. Allen, Ph.D.


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Why are you here? – Part 2

Why are you here? – Part 2

New Zealand writer, poet and educator Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner once said, “You must be true to yourself.  Strong enough to be true to yourself.  Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself.  Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.”

By Roger K. Allen, Ph.D.


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Why are you here? – Part 1

Why are you here? – Part 1

Why are you here?  Is your existence a series of reactions and habitual behaviors, just moments strung together like beads until the string runs out? “The purpose of your life,” writes Rick Warren in The Purpose Driven Life:  What On Earth Am I Here For, “ is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your […]

By Roger K. Allen, Ph.D.


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Are You Building Your Friendships?

Are You Building Your Friendships?

When something wonderful happens in your life, you call your friends to share it.  If something bad happens, you call a friend to lean on.  When you’re ready to make a change in your life, whether it’s hair color or marital status, you call a friend and confide your plans.  Humans were created to live […]

By Roger K. Allen, Ph.D.


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Can Your Family Handle Conflict?

Can Your Family Handle Conflict?

A and B gossip about C behind her back, then compliment her to her face.  D tries to form an alliance with E, who is secretly allied with both A and L and F and M.  F tells M what E told him, but with just a little twist, while E confesses to B that […]

By Roger K. Allen, Ph.D.


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Are You The Friend a Friend Would Like to Have?

Are You The Friend a Friend Would Like to Have?

We’ve been talking about how you can attain self actualization, and specifically, right now, we’re taking a look at some of the important relationships that can make or break us.  Take this quiz about your friendships to highlight some of the areas that might need work.

By Roger K. Allen, Ph.D.


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