January 3, 2013 by 1 Comment

Positive Thinking

Another year rolls in, and with it a barrage of commercials promoting the latest diet programs! New Years is the customary time to reflect and adjust…but for those of us calibrating life, this is a regular habit throughout the year…right?! 🙂 Along with the diet programs, you will be inundated with self-help advice in the area of achieving the “good life”, “fulfillment”…and the good old standby: “success”.

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Be honest now…we are not so stupid as to belief that simply thinking about something will make it happen. As much as I enjoyed playing baseball (a true lifeline as a kid)…I can think I will pitch in the major leagues of baseball all I want…it is not going to happen! This is not just due to my age…it was not going to happen when I was younger either!

Most often inserted somewhere in the list of self-help advice is the concept of “visualization” (remember “The Secret”). While I do not have a problem with the concept of visualization, I do have a slightly different angle Please Continue Reading …

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November 22, 2012 by 3 Comments

Assumptions

If you are old like me…you ight remember a baseball coach lecturing his team at the start of the movie “The Bad News Bears” (not the remake)…wherein he wrote the word “ASSUME” on the board…exhorting his team to never assume…for if they did, they would make “an ASS out of U and ME”.

Since that time, I have heard many people use a similar philosophy…referring to how dangerous assumptions can be. No doubt, there are instances where caution is wise…but not in every instance. Let me suggest that, in the context of team and partnership, it may be more beneficial to assume. To assume Please Continue Reading …

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March 19, 2012 by 3 Comments

Assume the Best in Relationships

Relationships are work, hard work even.

We enjoy a few that are extraordinary to be sure…but even these will take effort some days. Days when you don’t have the capacity to look beyond self, either due to feeling overwhelmed or exhausted, or possibly irritated or anxious due to a past wound or fear.


Whatever the reason, it’s difficult to hold some relationships from flying apart. Especially when so much of our communication is not face to face. We miss the 80% of communication that is non-verbal…body language, etc.

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