A New Year and a New Beginning
We tend to look to the new year as a clean slate and a chance for a new beginning. Except that as anyone who has made New Year’s resolutions knows,…
Self-Growth Tip: When in a funk, focus on a life role
Life has its ups and downs and most of us don’t have too many down (or up) days in a row. But when the bad days just keep coming, there are a few techniques that can help turn things around.
Swerving Around Tradition
We have a wonderful cultural heritage that tells us that things that are old — things that have lasted — are the things that are good and should be preserved. To the ancient Greeks, gray hair meant "wisdom" because, after all, someone had to have accumulated wisdom in order to have survived long enough to get gray hair.
Self-Growth Tip: Open Yourself to Meeting New People
When we meet another, we are presented with a choice of whether or not to risk ourselves. To take the time and risk of opening ourselves to another means being willing to lose a measure of control over our interaction and the direction it takes. To take this risk is to embrace living a richer life than we could possibly script ourselves.
Self-Growth Tip: Listening to Wake-up Calls
A good friend who I'd known since college died recently. He had only told a very few people that he had been diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of cancer and that nothing could be done to treat it.
Action Plans
When you’re working with Areas for Improvement (in an SII Assessment), the ability to create high-quality action plans is critical. Without action plans, all we have is hope.
Self-Growth Tip: Owning Decisions
Darling, you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
If you say that you are mine
I'll be here 'till the end of time
So you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
(The Clash)
Self-Growth Tip: Going from Reacting to Responding
When we experience unexpected change, whether in our personal or professional lives, we tend to either resist or react...
Creating Your Own Growth Environment
Life inside our comfort zone is comfortable. Easy. Relaxing. Sort of like living in a warm and fuzzy cocoon. But as long as we stay there, we won't grow.
Optimal Growth: My Choice, My Plan
In order to grow, we need to step outside our comfort zone. It's called a "comfort zone" for a reason: we feel comfort when we're there.