I’ll be Happy When… We often associate happiness and joy with some future event or circumstance. “I’ll be happy when I graduate and go to college…” “I get married…. “I have children…” “The children are grown and on their own…” “I get my new house/car…” “I retire and get out of this rat race…” “I […]
I’ve recently been writing about “becoming,” one of the three core principles of living a joyful life. I define becoming as growing into a more mature human being, someone able to bring your best self to the situations and challenges of life. Although there are many ways you can grow yourself spiritually and emotionally, today I […]
I’m offering you, in this article, a peak into a coaching conversation. I’m doing it for two reasons. First, perhaps you can learn something for your own life from how coach helps a woman navigate an upsetting set-back. And second, you don’t have to be a professional life coach to help other people. In other […]
In my last post, I talked about four different styles of communication: dominating, accommodating, avoiding, and collaborating. Collaborating means that you’re honest about your own thoughts, feelings, needs, and wants. You’re also willing to show empathy for your partner’s thoughts, feelings, needs, and wants. This is the healthiest of the communication styles and becomes particularly […]
Active listening serves many purposes. It is how we connect and enjoy others. It is a means to share information for making decisions and solving problems. It’s how we build unity and trust and strengthen our relationships. It’s a way of increasing motivation and personal empowerment. It’s also a way to promote deeper personal growth. […]
Mother’s Day is just a few days away and I want to take a few moments to write about honoring women, particularly those women closest to us. Here is one of my earliest memories. I was four years old. My mother was working at an ice cream parlor that my parents owned and my father […]
In my last blog I talked about depression, its nature, symptoms and causes. In this post, I am presenting strategies to overcome depression. The good news about depression is that it is the most treatable of all mental disorders. In fact, 80% of people who suffer from this illness will achieve substantial, if not full […]
Last week my blog was an interview with a friend who was complaining about becoming a grumpy old man due to the increasing demands and expectations put on him by his employer. This is a pretty common phenomenon for a lot of people these days as companies cut costs and run lean, expecting their existing […]
A short time later, he heard Kathy’s SUV pull into the garage. He was surprised she didn’t immediately burst into the shop and light into him for not accepting Sam’s offer. When Susie called him to dinner, he realized why. Kathy brought the subject up not more than a couple minutes into the meal. “Sam […]
