I don’t know if emotional immaturity is the highest form of immaturity, but I’m pretty certain it’s way up on the list. I was once in a situation where someone h ...
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Getting Out of Bed to Keep a Commitment: Self-Discipline
I’ve tried reading long books with pages full of words, but I lose my place, forget what I’ve read, and my lips get tired. The Greatest Salesman in the World is my kind of book ...
Thinking Before Speaking: Not All Thoughts Should Be Voiced
I learned about tact the same day I learned the principal distinction between observing the obvious and speaking it. That morning, as an innocent child of ten, I shouted to a n ...
A Fresh Start: Permission to Introduce Yourself as The Person You Want to Be
In 1998 I moved to Los Angeles to tap dance. Yet, for the first couple of months, I told myself, “Do not take a tap class. Do not take a tap class.”I knew that if I showed up as a ...
Finding Happiness
I love Toastmasters International, and I became a member while in graduate school. It’s a communication and leadership development organization. Basically, you give speeches and y ...
Three Kinds of People
One day while sitting in the dentist’s chair, I had a mini-meltdown between the injection of novocaine and my dentist saying, “Shall we begin?”I didn’t have to go into great detail ...
Running Toward Opportunity
When I was growing up, nobody in my family talked about any of us kids going to college. The only expectation was that we would all graduate from high school. This was considered t ...
Nothing but Net
Nothing but Net. I’m extremely comfortable jumping right in. Because if I think too much on a subject, I’ll become inundated with “what-ifs” and talk myself out of taking action. P ...
A Letting Go Ceremony
Celebrate the release Of the countless ways to make positive change in your life, one that works for me particularly well is planning A Letting Go Ceremony. The event is bu ...
Lost Wallet. Found Faith.
Someone once told me, "If you lose a piece of jewelry - it’s meant for someone else." Thank goodness the same doesn’t apply to wallets. I lost mine last week. It fell out my po ...
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