Practical Tips for Parenting in an Ever- Changing World
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. Umberto Eco (Foucault’s Pendulum)...
View ArticleLearning to Love Loving Life Again After a Loss
eventually, everything goes away. Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) When someone loses a person who is important for them, they undergo grieving. Grieving helps us accept and understand the...
View ArticleHow to Relieve the Pain of Sore Muscles
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh) Okay, you have finally gotten back onto the gym to work on your New Year’s Resolution of getting more...
View ArticleHow to Overcome Your Fear of Rejection while Negotiating
By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected. Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends & Influence People) If you are terrified of getting the door slammed in your...
View ArticleEmbracing Your Self-Confidence
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. Ayn Rand (The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism) If you have challenges with self-confidence, much of life can...
View ArticleImproving Your Visualization
When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything. Stephen Richards Visualization is an important part of manifesting any goal. As with everything else, there are ways of using this technique...
View ArticleHow to Boost Your Confidence
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the...
View ArticleCurbing Your Frustration
To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles. T.F. Hodge ( From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine...
View ArticleKeys to Strengthening Your Relationships
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. C.G. Jung All relationships grow and change over time. So, even if...
View ArticleBuild Better Relationships With Emotional Validation
If self-validation were our most significant societal measure – we would give trophies to ourselves. Mary Anne Radmacher Emotional validation is an important social skill that anyone can learn, or...
View ArticleBody Language 101
When speechless, let body do the talk. Toba Beta (Master of Stupidity) Body language is one ways of communicating that we pay too little attention to. Oftentimes others “hear” something from our...
View Article8 Important Things to Teach Your Children About Money
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like. Will Rogers The odds are good that you have had some financial stress at some...
View ArticleSwitching Careers? 7 Critical Pre-Actions to Consider
Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world –to do what we want. And it takes the...
View ArticleBoost Your Career Potential with Better Social Skills
Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique...
View ArticleOvercoming Self-Doubt When Presenting Your Ideas to Peers
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. Vincent van Gogh As unbelievable as it sounds, It is actually normal for many people to...
View ArticleWhere to Begin…
You’ve heard that to be successful you’ve got to sell the sizzle, then why so often are sales professionals duped instead of successful? Learning the sell is much more than creating enough leads or...
View ArticleHow to Boost Your Self- Confidence
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. Malcolm S. Forbes Self-confidence helps us believe that we can handle whatever task or challenge comes our way. There are...
View ArticleHow to Use Your Support Group to Ensure Your Success
It is perfectly natural to strive for solving your problems on your own. Sometimes pride will hold you back from asking for help, or it might be embarrassment or fear. Either way, you will realize...
View ArticleWhere to Begin to Learn Soft Sells Success
Business success is not a magical kingdom that only the cute get to visit. In my experience, some of THE most succeessful folks I know are also the most imperfect, willing to make a mess of things...
View ArticleBuild Better Relationships With Emotional Validation
If self-validation were our most significant societal measure – we would give trophies to ourselves. Mary Anne Radmacher Emotional validation is an important social skill that anyone can learn, or...
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