Personal Development Blog Post

Succeeding at Life: Perspective Recently, I read about how a pair of Mahatma Gandhi’s glasses were sold at auction for $340,000. While I don’t have an opinion as to whether or not that’s the correct price for his actual glasses, I wondered what the value of his perspective would be.   [...]

Succeeding at Life: Personal Excellence “The trouble is, you think you have time.” - Jack Kornfield    Too many of us are waiting.    We’re waiting for the right time, the right opportunity, the right person, etc.    We’re waiting to be noticed, chosen, or given permission.    We’re waiting [...]

Succeeding at Life: Critical thinking My purpose in writing this is not to change your opinion, or to bring you around to my way of thinking. I’m not trying to tell you what to think.    What I am interested in doing is helping you think better. A big part [...]

Succeeding at Life: Virtue and Vice Yin and Yang is a Chinese philosophical concept that describes how opposites may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent on one another.    The battle between good and evil is constant and complicated. In his book The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn tells us:    [...]

Succeeding at Life: Doing Focused Work Is succeeding at life a priority for you?   Do you want to get better?    Is there something specific you’re working on ? Something you’re trying to get started or finish?    “Wanting” is the first step. Desire is the common denominator of [...]

Succeeding at Life: Auditing Your Time Have you ever read “The Bank of Time?” It’s one of my favorite inspirational stories:   Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day.   Every evening the bank [...]

Succeeding at Life: Essential Questions to Ask Yourself Succeeding at life isn’t easy, but it’s available to everyone.    It’s also highly personal. Your idea of success is and should be, different from mine.    What does success look like for you? You see, it’s imperative to get clear on [...]

Are Your Behaviors Winding You Up for Communication Fouls and Strikes? Maybe it’s time to have a “do-over.” Have you found yourself repeating or recreating the same negative, uncomfortable situations? Is your gut telling you that it’s time to pause and learn how you appear and act towards others? Do [...]

Excuse me, you want me to do what? Leave the house? Converse with humans whose flesh I can reach out and touch?  You want me to discard the protection of my computer screen, replace my pajama bottoms with jeans that no longer stretch around my waist, risk dirtying my slippers [...]