What is Your Destiny?
Anything is possible. Anything. You can see it in the faces of the musicians, old and young. Hear it in the ringing voices, feel it pulsing through your veins in time with the rhythm. But when the music stops . . .
Personal Growth
Empowering people to make strengthening choices
Reframing a Negative Belief
In a past article, “Key Moments: Seizing the Opportunity in Life’s Difficulties” I defined key moments as a situation or event which is upsetting, presents a challenge and demands a response. How we handle our key moments determines, to a great extent, our happiness and success in life.
What Are Your Guiding Principles?
When you’re faced with a decision, what drives you? Do you take the path of least resistance or act out of a need for self-protection? Or are you guided by certain internal principles that defy apparent logic or short term thinking? Part of self actualization – living a life built around knowing who you are […]
What Are Your Guiding Principles? (Part II)
In November 2008, trucker Ronnie Sanders, 38, was hauling a heavy load of tractors and forklifts from Georgia to Independence when on I-75 in Kentucky, traffic in front of him stopped abruptly. Directly in front of him was a Grand Caravan, and he saw kids in the back seat. Ronnie was bearing down hard, and […]
Who Were You Born to Be?
Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein are identical twins. As part of controversial (and now widely regarded as unethical) research project in the 1960s and ’70s, they were separated as infants, as an attempt to resolve the “nature versus nurture” dispute. Neither knew that she had a sister, let alone an identical twin, until they found […]
Who Am I?
Who are you? If self-actualization means that you reach your born potential, what will that look like for you? You are an utterly unique creation, born with a distinct set of talents, dreams, personality traits, and quirks. If you, through your experience of life, have suppressed that unique being, if you have failed to let […]
Who Gets to Choose Who You Are?
Actor/Comedian Steve Martin used to lead his audience in “The Non-Conformist Oath”: STEVE MARTIN: And now, let’s repeat the nonconformist oath. I promise to be different. AUDIENCE: I promise to be different. STEVE MARTIN: I promise to be unique. AUDIENCE: I promise to be unique. STEVE MARTIN: I promise not to repeat things other people […]
The Hero Principle
Before people read my book they ask about the title: The Hero’s Choice: Living from the Inside Out. “What do you mean by the hero’s choice? What are you talking about when you talk about a hero?” These are good questions. So, I decided to write a blog about “The Hero Principle.” We typically think […]
