The following post is reprinted from What the Soul Wants For Christmas: Open Yourself to Fresh Celebrations of the Holidays… and Life. It is one of 52 weekly chapters from that book and is offered here by the author for the benefit of your well-being in the upcoming holiday season. We can each master...
I help others for a living. I help them make one meaningful change after another. I’ve done this professionally since 1980. It is both a vocation and avocation, which means I do this even when I don’t get paid. I’ve now published my first book as a continuation of my commitment to others, What the...
Though these two emotions get a bad rap in our modern world, the healthful upside of Desire and Pride is essential to building our Well Being. Hardly anyone grows up in modern society with a clear, clean understanding of the role Desire and Pride play in building an excellent life. Let’s begin to change...
Want to be a grownup? Learning the difference between Shame and Guilt is a first step. Being able to name your emotion as you experience it and managing your emotions as they flow through you are two of the six steps of being an emotionally mature person. In other words, doing this work is...
One Word will change your life. This annual practice broadens and deepens the spiritual lives of those who dive in. Begin by asking Whomever, or whatever, you perceive to be the Higher Power for One Word you will embrace for the space of a year. Ask for the One Word, a wisely-designed assignment that...
A strong sense of Well-Being isn’t accidental. We get what we work for. Here’s a quick Well-Being diagnostic for you to run on these six areas of your life so see where you want to get stronger. Balance Do you regularly hold two very different ideas in your mind or heart at the same...
Our mindset is key to managing hard emotions. The old saying is absolutely true, that it is not what happens to us in life but what we do with it. For every person still suffering from something “unforgivable” that was done to them, someone else experienced a similar fate and handled it more effectively. We...
Well being is possible no matter who you are, where you are, or what holiday is about to crash down around us. Since Thanksgiving is here and Christmas is nigh, it’s time to put strategies in place for moving through these experiences well. 2020 has been an especially odd year and depending on your...
Not everyone who grew older grew up, but you can. Being “grown up” is an accumulation of skills, habits, and character traits. Some people get there faster and more easily than others, but no worries, this isn’t a race. We do, however, progress more swiftly if we look to do our personal best as...
Can having good character be simple? For 35 years it was my business to build or rebuild the good character of my students. For the last 17 years of that time I was the principal of a school and had the deciding power of exactly how my staff and I would do that. But...