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Sacrifice What?

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Today is officially Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tuesday” for us non-French speakers. How many mask-wearing, bead-seeking people in New Orleans or Rio De Janeiro understand the real meaning behind this day? At its essence, we are to get as fat as we can on this Tuesday, for tomorrow represents a holy day in most westernized countries.

For Roman Catholics, tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which begins the 40 days prior to Easter Sunday – the grand celebration of the Christian Church. In these 40 days people all over the world make sacrifices in their normal lives in order to partake (symbolically, anyway) in something far more meaningful.

I find it classic that our culture would find a way to celebrate the day-before debauchery, rather than the essence of what it means to sacrifice.

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Against Stress and Stagnation

Friday, February 17th, 2012

I could dedicate a hundred blogs to the topic of “time.” We all seem to have so little of it these days. People everywhere are so compressed that they hardly know which way is which.

For many of us, this incessant busyness is a sure path to stress, and heavy stress indeed. And the stress that is created by an increasingly busy world is something of a silent killer.

You don’t need to be an MD to observe that stress crushes the immune system. That’s a topic for another time. Today, I want to discuss another by-product of our lack of time: a lack of self-development.

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What Makes the Heart Grow Fonder?

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

There is common idiom that states, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” Like many sayings of its kind, this one probably has some meaning that has been lost in antiquity. But there are so many ways in which this one is just wrong.

In fact, this saying is potentially lethal to your business if you subscribe to it either on purpose or inadvertently.

Relationships simply require presence.

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A Mightier Weapon

Friday, February 10th, 2012

As I look back on the week of coaching, I try to do a bit of a panoramic scan of my sessions and unearth the key nuggets that would be instrumental for this writing. I am a coach who wants to hone in the positive and optimistic in life. This week, however, had me dealing with a lot of clients who got burned. Not by fire, but rather by an individual or a corporation.

It is very common to be hurt by people. What we do with that hurt can shape us.

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How Are You, Really?

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

What one word would you use to describe how you are doing so far this year?

Would you have to narrow it down to the various compartments of your life? Would you feel one way about your personal life and another about your life at work?

Are there certain parts of your personal life that are doing well and others that aren’t? Is it the same in your business? Do you compartmentalize these various aspects of your existence or do they morph together, giving you an overarching theme to how you are living?

These days when someone asks me “how are you?” I chuckle a bit internally because the answer to this simple question is potentially one of the most complicated, convoluted responses. It’s no great wonder that the pat answer to this is “fine.”

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Why Change?

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

You really can change how you think. The question is, do you want to?

While attending an event with some very successful people recently, there was much discussion around the idea of change. Not whether the world is changing (that’s a given), but rather, can we change how we think and subsequently behave?

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