Posts Tagged ‘life changes’
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
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Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey have a lot in common. And they have a lot to teach us about coloring outside of lines, following your own path, and making a difference. Neither of these icons of our era were born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Yet both “made a dent in the universe,” to use Steve’s maxim. Oprah began her life in rural Mississippi. Steve began his in foster care in northern California one week after his birth. Both of them started from what we euphemistically call “humble beginnings” and by dint of their own efforts, became cultural icons and entrepreneurial phenomenon in their lifetimes.
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Tags: awareness, life changes, life enrichment, living consciously, Personal Growth, self-help
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Saturday, December 24th, 2011
For many people, happiness seems to be elusive. For others it seems to be a natural state of being. Are some people hardwired to be miserable while others are hard wired to be happy? I think not. I believe that happiness can be experienced by all people. Yes, even those that are down and out can experience happiness. I have witnessed people who live in mud huts within an impoverished village, tenement housing, group homes, and even homeless folks living under a bridge, experience greater happiness in their lives than those who live in multimillion dollar houses and earn six figure incomes. What can these people teach us about happiness?
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Tags: awareness, human connection, intimacy, life changes, life enrichment, living consciously, spirituality, stress
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
I think New Year resolutions are a waste of time. They only serve to make us feel good at the time we are making them. We feel righteous. It is a short term feel good. However, in the long run we end up feeling worse about ourselves. New Year resolutions are similar to eating that high calorie dessert; we feel good for the moment and then have to deal with the bulging waistline. As the old TV commercial used to say, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!” Or similar to overspending on our credit card; it feels good at the moment. The pain comes along with the statement from the credit card company a month later. New Year resolutions similarly feel good in January but feel awful in December.
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Tags: awareness, life changes, life enrichment, living consciously, Personal Growth
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Monday, December 12th, 2011
In my previous two blogs I wrote about finding a job using a different paradigm and engaging in networking. In this post I will be addressing the style and attitude with which you approach the challenge of finding a job especially in a difficult economic market. I refer to it as a black belt attitude. This attitude not only affects how you approach looking for work, but also impacts how you approach your life.
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Tags: career change, life changes, life enrichment, men and work, Personal Growth, women and work
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Since 2008 my life coaching practice has witnessed a shift. In prior years my clients were mostly folks who were interested in improving their life, growing their business, and advancing in their profession. Since the “Great Recession” my clients are focusing on transitioning from one career to another and finding a job after being laid off from their six figure positions.
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Tags: career change, life changes, men and work, Personal Growth, social issues, women and work
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
The old saying, “we cannot control the hand we are dealt, but we can control how we play the hand” is very powerful. Whether it is the economy, illness, accidents, etc., we have a choice regarding how we are going to deal with circumstance in which we find ourselves.
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Tags: life changes, living consciously, Personal Growth, social issues
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Thursday, November 24th, 2011
There has been much hullabaloo made by the Tea Party advocates, religious fundamentalists, and other groups, claiming that marriage is sacred. They use the “sanctity of marriage” call as the reason why we should not legalize gay marriage (a clear violation of the principle of separation of church and state.) Yet, we have many Hollywood marriages where celebrities marry for convenience, money (e.g., the Kardashian marriage), publicity, etc. Marriage makes good press! And these sanctity of marriage groups say absolutely nothing. (A bit of hypocrisy, no?)
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Tags: human connection, intimacy, life changes, marriage, Relationships, social issues
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
Bonnie Ware is a hospice nurse. During the course of her years working with people who were dying she questioned them about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently; common themes surfaced again and again. We all should learn from these patients now, while we are alive, and while we can do something today to minimize these regrets. The message is clear. As Steve Jobs said in his commencement address to the graduating class at Stanford in 2005, Every day I look in the mirror and ask myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. What he was advising in that address was to live each day as fully as possible focusing on following your passion, connecting with others, and make a difference in the world.
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Tags: awareness, human connection, life changes, life enrichment, living consciously, men and masculinity, men and work, mindfulness, Personal Growth
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Much has been written about living a purposeful life and its relationship to happiness. I have addressed this issue in my recent book, Living Life from the Inside Out: Who You Are Matters. The questioned addressed in this post, however, is whether it is necessary to live a purposeful life in order to be happy. Can people be happy and feel satisfied with their life simply by getting up each day and going fishing and watching the clouds go by?
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
We have been raised on the value of self-reliance. We have been taught to admire independence and to believe that depending upon others is a sign of weakness. We believe in the Marlborough Man; men aspire to him and women seek to find him. If you listen to Tea Party folks, you would think that this country was built on the concept of complete self-reliance, independence, and without government intervention. This is all myth, fabrication, and malarkey.
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Tags: awareness, life changes, life enrichment, living consciously, Personal Growth
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Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey have a lot in common. And they have a lot to teach us about coloring outside of lines, following your own path, and making a difference. Neither of these icons of our era were born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Yet both “made a dent in the universe,” to use Steve’s maxim. Oprah began her life in rural Mississippi. Steve began his in foster care in northern California one week after his birth. Both of them started from what we euphemistically call “humble beginnings” and by dint of their own efforts, became cultural icons and entrepreneurial phenomenon in their lifetimes.
