Evolution not revolution I am a member of a generation that wanted to rebel against the establishment and then we became the establishment. The Beatles got it and sang about us being a group that did not want to really rebel when they sang "Revolution" in the watershed year of 1968. For those of [...]
How did we get all this stuff? As we age, there seems to be less attachment to possessions or the need for possessions. In the first half of my life, I was consumed by being a consumer. I had to have the latest "stuff". Even when I turned fifty, the entry point to the [...]
The afternoon of life The paradox of the afternoon of life is that just as we may feel we are finally hitting our stride – if we do not take a siesta, we risk burning out – never making it to the evening of life. I have found myself looking at living according to [...]
Lately, I have begun to work more closely with Multi-Level marketing (MLM) people through my membership in BNI. I have to admit, I have previously held a negative bias about MLM. This perspective is rooted in an experience with one MLM in particular which directly affected a friendship. These friends, unfortunately “drank the Kool-Aide” [...]
Many people are stuck in victim energy or see others as victims - what if we were not broken? We choose to remain broken, it is a way of being a victim and not needing to take responsibility for ourselves. We become our disease. Oh, I can't do that - I have cancer. Or [...]
This past Tuesday completed three weeks of intense effort around the completion of the iPEC training program for Energy Leadership. It has been a time of growth, reflection, and a lot of work. Working with my coach this week - yes coaches have coaches too- we processed a lot of this growth and I identified the feeling [...]
Early in my “first-life” career, I remember an employee telling of being taught by a priest at Cardinal Mooney High School in Youngstown Ohio to take a time out and just “Be”. The conversation edged on mockery and, as I was at that time parent to a teenager, the idea of any high school kid [...]
