Thank Goodness for Failure
After getting beaten over the head, time and again these past few weeks with the theme of "failure," both my own and others, I decided it was time to take a stand. So here is the stand I have chosen to take: Failure: What a Blessing!!! How sad a state of affairs when...
Seven Empowering Virtues
Confucius said “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” That’s generally because people spend so much time looking at what needs to be fixed instead of what is already great. Baseball analyst Bill James said it great: “If you can’t learn to do something...
Scars: Evidence of Life
A five year old neighbor boy was riding his bike this weekend and in the few minutes that his family stepped inside to attend to something else - he took a tumble. Nothing serious, in fact, as far as tumbles go it was fairly low on the Richter scale catastrophe, but...
Concorde Career Institute Graduation Speech (Video)
Last year I had the honor of speaking at the graduation ceremony for a local career college here in Portland. The response was outstanding and they have since asked me back a number of times to speak at graduations as well as to run a three hour in-service workshop...
I Know I Put My Happiness Somewhere, Now Where is it!?
I am finding a number of clients recently, and if you read my newsletter this month you know I can easily be included in this group, that are experiencing significant roadblocks in their lives and the answer is coming down to dealing with issues of clutter. I am...
Oh, the Places We Won't Go!
I was recently asked if I am a musician, to which I answered without hesitation – “No.”It wasn’t until some time later that I realized I have played piano for over 15 years, performed at two weddings and publicly at several conferences, and received rave reviews for...
The Wisdom of Youth
Not only do kids say the darndest things, many times they say the most brilliant things. Such was the case of our five year old daughter Sarah recently. Lamenting the frustration often found during the day, my wife, Julia, asked Sarah why she and her younger sister...
Next LifeQuest Mapping Workshop: May 23, 2008
We are holding the next LQM Workshop on May 23, 2008. Please Click Here for details and a link to register.
Is Your Emotional Hard Drive Too Full?
I meant to write this newsletter last month to keep on my bi-monthly schedule. But you know how it is, life is busy, my office is a disaster and before I knew it, it was May and I was a month behind schedule. Then the unthinkable happened. My computer died. Not your...
Between the Horizons
Between the Horizons If you were standing on the edge of the ocean and looking out over a calm sea; how far is it between you and the horizon - that line that marks the edge of the world? The precise answer is based on some crazy mathematical formula including square...
