“Brevity is the very soul of wit.” -Shakespeare I hope you’ve noticed my diligence in keeping my messages short, yet packed with meaning. Are you doing the same thing? Stop overexplaining yourself. Believe me, if they didn’t get it the first time, they’re not going to get it the hundredth! That’s true of your clients, spouse and even your kids who don’t get the concept of a clean room no matter what you say.  This …
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I have a friend; someone I consider conscious, intelligent, and kind. Yet, when she’s upset or irritable, she’s not above treating her husband harshly and with disrespect. It’s painful to see, hurtful to him, and embarrassing to her when she recovers herself and realizes what she’s done.  We all have times when we clearly do the WRONG thing. Sometimes it’s because we don’t know what the right thing is…. but more often, it’s because we …
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“The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety, nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line. Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.” -Edward Fitzgerald   How easily we weigh ourselves down with the burden of our past actions, mistakes and omissions. How surely we seal our future fate with the glue of our personal history. Yet nothing but our conviction that the past …
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“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.” ~ Arnold Edinborough    Last week I focused on using curiosity for self inquiry. Today, we’re looking at how curiosity can be used as a tool to improve your relationships and your results. Quick, think back to the last time you were annoyed with someone. Maybe a coworker disappointed you, or …
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“Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize it may be a rare and indispensable thing.”  ~James Harvey Robinson I can think of no better or more important topic for starting the New Year than curiosity. In fact, it’s so important to our emotional well being and the destiny of our planet that it will be the topic for two weeks in a row.  Today regards curiosity about ourselves. Next week, we’ll take …
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