As we have the privilege of going into a new year, let’s not forget what we are capable of, instead of remembering what we believed we couldn’t accomplish or do. Old beliefs are just a collection of ideas we’ve told ourselves again and again, and don’t have to be our...
I read an article about a mother who was concerned her mentally challenged son would feel hurt at the end of the school day on Valentine’s Day, because other children sometimes made fun of him and she suspected no one would give him a Valentine’s card. But...
She was just so exhausting that by the time the weekend was over my daughter and I just wanted quiet and solitude. My daughter turned to me after we’d left her and said, “Now do you see why I think you’re so pushy.” What she was talking about was my style in DISC; I’m...
When I read these lines, it reminds me of how often in the past I used to go around in a half-awake stupor, doing what I had to do just to get through the day. And what a waste of precious time it was; I wasn’t brave or confident enough to see what mattered to me, and...
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” Carl Jung Author Chris Voss, in his great book Never Split the Difference, talks about his favorite F word: Fair. He explains companies can often use it in negative, manipulative...
Don’t be tempted to give away your happiness and joy this Thanksgiving by being upset with anything, regardless of what is happening around you. If you start to get frustrated with the way other people drive, go through security at an airport, talk in a...