Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life

Behavior, Choices, Communication

Where Have We Been and Why Are We Back?

In keeping with what Paul and I started with, the basic principles of Gratitude and Trust, the six affirmations, there are three that explain why we have suddenly reappeared in your inbox. I will make right the wrongs I’ve done wherever possible. I will continue to examine my behavior on a daily basis. I will live my life in love and service and gratitude and trust.   By telling you where we’ve been and why we left, I am trying… Read More

Character, Clarity, Communication

if you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won’t like you. It may not be easy, but it’s essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.

Acceptance, Clarity, Communication

People tell you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be.

Communication, Connection, Friendship, Letting Go

Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

Communication, Hope

Where talk exists, so does hope.

Communication, Connection

FEEDBACK

  A musician on stage cringes when he hears feedback during a performance.  It’s usually in the form of a screeching electronic protestation caused by …   well, I’m not really sure.  It’s a problem usually created when the microphone and the monitors enter a level of intimacy unsanctioned by the Gods of technology. There was a time when I’d have gone on and on about why feedback occurs, undeterred by the fact that I was simply guessing.  Life is better this… Read More

Communication, Connection, Relationships

Who doesn’t want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated – it matters…that people matter.

Communication, Compassion, Goodness

THE 60 SECOND HEART ATTACK

  Last Sunday the largest audience in the games history watched the Super Bowl. At the risk of sounding un-American I must admit I missed most of it.   I had tickets to see an old friend in a play so I missed the second half.    What I did observe though was a continuing push from the advertising world to get to our wallets through our hearts. And I really, really like that. In so many ways the world seems to… Read More

Communication, Compassion, Courage

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

Clarity, Communication, Connection

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.