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What is the Meaning in Your Thanksgiving?
Are you fortunate enough to have good food and enjoyable gatherings with loved ones as central ingredients in your holiday season? If so, I hope that youâll take some special moments to celebration a deeper expression of Thanksgiving⦠expressing gratitude for the abundance in your life. Research findings reported in Born To Be Good by Dacher Keltner, indicate that for those who have few financial resources, money does create happiness. âMaterial gain allows individuals
November 25, 2009
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What's Your Part in Creating Positive Change in the World?
Do you ever wonder how you fit into the bigger movement of change that the world so greatly needs? My colleague, Dorene Mahoney, of StepWell Coaching, has agreed for me to share some ideas, taken from one of her articles on the topic of change. Read on to see what it will take to create positive change for yourself, your community and the world to survive and thrive. Afterwards, answer the questions I pose to help you take this into your personal life. "I have grave concerns
October 23, 2009
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Will You Miss an Opportunity for Meaning?
Have you noticed that opportunities show up daily to say “yes” to having more meaning in your life? Over a lunch with a past client and friend we talked about how chance meetings and life circumstances can sometimes result in making a difference in someone else’s life plus adding richness to our own experience. Rannell Dahl shared the story of how a trip to Latvia to discover her husband’s roots lead to a long distance relationship and improving the li
August 2, 2009
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What Will Your Legacy Be?
President Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, was recently quoted as saying "never waste the opportunity that a crisis brings to the table." Leaders during earlier world crises challenged us to come together with strength and conviction to lift ourselves up along with helping our fellow world citizens who are in need. This recession is our generation's "BIG bump in the road". As Emanuel suggests, it offers the opportunity to reassess our direction, what's truly important fo
August 2, 2009
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Three Forks In The Road
Which of these two questions is the one that you find yourself asking? 1) What do I want to do? 2) What will give my life meaning? In midlife we're likely to be shifting from the emphasis on doing found in the first question. We begin asking the question in a more complex way, looking for the meaning inherent in what we do. I recently came across an article written by David J. Powell, Ph.D that addresses this issue ("Understanding People in Life's Second Half"). The article a
August 2, 2009
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How to Get Started On Making A Successful Change
The one thing in life we can all count on is change. Some changes come about because of unexpected life circumstances that we'd rather not be going through, like a job layoff or an unexpected health limitation. Other changes may be welcomed and happen through personal design, such as choosing to get married, changing careers or deciding to improve your health through regular exercise and better eating habits. Chosen or not, each of these new situations disturbs the equilibriu
August 2, 2009
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Gandhi...Be The Change!... Work As A Vehicle For Meaning And Impact
A new definition of work is emerging that goes beyond financial rewards in the workplace. I’d like to share some ideas with you meant to shift your beliefs about work and open up opportunities for greater fulfillment and meaning in your life. During the lead-up to Indian independence in the 1940’s Mahatma Gandhi challenged his country to “Be the change you want to see in the world.” In a different kind of revolution today, Gandhi’s challenge give
August 2, 2009
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Are You Calcified...In A Rut?
Who would have thought that Jamie Lee Curtis, the funny and sexy actress in the movie A Fish Called Wanda would be handing out clues for how to live a meaningful life. During a recent airplane flight I picked up an article about Jaime that got me thinking about how to shed ill-fitting, old ways of being and shift toward a juicier life that could lead to making a bigger impact on the world. Jamie is a woman who has had both successes and failures in the first half of her life.
August 2, 2009