In June’s blog I talked about the joys and rewards of connecting with people in your industry at business conferences like ATD. Today I want to focus on the priceless rewards of connecting with friends and family. In this day and age, when so much of our connecting happens over Zoom and other digital platforms, […]
Need Relief from COVID Fatigue? Let’s Revisit the PACT Model
COVID-19 had been around only a few weeks when I wrote a blog post about a life-balance model that was created by my wife, Margie. When she was studying research about peak periods of happiness in people and also the effect of extreme stress on long-term health, she learned researchers had identified a set of […]
Keep a Positive Perspective on Today
I’ve been thinking lately about how important it is to have a positive perspective and live life in the present. I have a journal I read frequently where I have written inspirational thoughts as well as motivational quotes. I try every day to live by these three positive thoughts: • You make a living by […]
Make a Difference by Giving to Others This Holiday Season
I often talk about how important it is to reach out to others in love and service on a regular basis. But during the holidays, we need to be especially focused on giving, serving, and caring for people. I want to offer up a few ideas on how simple it can be to make a […]
What Do You Really Want from Your Work?
Many years ago I participated in an “Aligned Thinking” seminar, designed by Jim Steffen. One of the exercises in the program made a big difference in my life, so I want to share it with you. Think about how you would answer this question: What do I really want from my work? To break this […]
3 Mindsets to Brighten Your Day
I’ve talked a number of times about Norman Vincent Peale and the positive impact he had on my life. I love this quote from him that I often read for inspiration as I enter my day: “We are here to be excited from youth to old age—to have an insatiable curiosity about the world. Aldous […]
Happy Families Are No Accident
Years ago, Peter Drucker said “Nothing good happens by accident—put some structure around it!” So if you want something good to happen, put some structure around it. This doesn’t just apply to business; it’s also for family life. I can name several traditions that are perfect examples of Drucker’s line of thinking. Like many families, […]
The Glass Is 100% Full
As humans, we often tend to look at the dark side of things. For many of us, the proverbial glass is always half empty. This is unfortunate because research has shown that what we place our attention on tends to grow stronger in our minds and in our lives—for good or bad. My daughter-in-law, Madeleine […]
Life Is a Very Special Occasion
I can’t believe how fast this year has gone by. I like the joke about how life is like a roll of toilet paper—the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes! Of course, everyone’s year is 365 days long. But for a lot of us, it feels like the years go by […]
Love versus Stuff
Over the past week, those of us living in southern California have had a whole new complication thrown into our busy holiday schedules: wildfires. For me it’s a reminder of the lesson I learned ten years ago, when our long-time family home burned to the ground in the massive Witch Creek fire of 2007. The […]
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