Do you remember when you learned how to ride a bicycle? It’s a rite of passage to have the training wheels removed and to enter the grown-up world of the other seven and eight-year-olds. The one skill that was repeated to you the most often during this life-changing lesson was certainly “to keep your balance.”
There […]

While it’s true there can many factors that contribute to your unhappiness at work (a supervisor who does not listen, subordinates who try to undermine your decisions as well as ineffective meetings) always remember the real solution to change your current situation and to find happiness at work is to change your behavior and attitude. […]

Summer may not be over until another couple of weeks, but with the Labor Day holiday in the United States behind us, now is the time many of us turn our attention from the relaxing and slower pace of the summer season to the more structured and focused time of when our children go back […]

Conclusion of the “Coming Into Your Own” Series
We are all defined by the choices we make. Our lives are not constructed because of what other people do to us, but rather our lives are built upon the choices we make – one choice after another.
For me, there is freedom and power in knowing this fact. […]

Part Five in the “Coming Into Your Own” Series
Truth exists for each one of us. The key is to find your truth. Too often, we are influenced by the expectations of our parents and culture to define what we consider to be our true nature, or true calling in life.
For many of us, finding our […]

Part Four in the “Coming Into Your Own” Series
For most of us, the need to have productive and intimate relationships is very important. We work on improving our marriages and friendships and sometimes, although unproductively, we try to work on others, too.
We often think we will be happy when our relationships are happy. This thought […]

Part Three in the “Coming Into Your Own” Series
Sometimes in life we are given circumstances and conditions that are unwelcome and unfair. Going through particularly hard times can make us bitter and can cause us to feel victimized. However, there are no accidents without value. What this means is no matter what happens to us, […]