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• August 16, 2016
  16Aug2016

  More Blessed, Less Stressed: My Four Agreements

  

  Recently I found myself offering words of encouragement to my nephew and his bride in advance of their upcoming wedding. What interested me was that the words were very similar to suggestions I'd made to a client upon the completion of some work together.

  I had to stop and think about that.

  Was I really saying the same thing in these very different settings?

  I was.

  And when I looked more deeply, I saw how the suggestions suited both circumstances. My intent was to offer support in both cases, and the applications are limitless. Like Don Miguel Ruiz' Four Agreements, they are guides to peace and quality of life--medicine for our volatile and stress-inducing world.

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• November 27, 2014
  27Nov2014

  Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  Happy Thanksgiving. May it be full of good friends, wonderful food, and warm memories. And may the inevitable conflict be handled with peace, power, and presence!

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• November 11, 2014
  11Nov2014

  Attitude Adjustment: Inconvenience or Adventure?

  

  "No bad weather, only inappropriate clothing." So says Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, author, and motivational speaker. This simple mantra has applications in all aspects of life. Things happen. The attitude we bring to those happenings either gives us power or robs us of it.

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• November 26, 2013
  26Nov2013

  One Moment More

  

  I had a dream some years ago that I was about to die. I panicked. Not because I was dying, but because I wasn't sure I'd lived. I was afraid I hadn't used my time on Earth wisely. I wanted the chance to do it over. And I thought in that moment of the dream, that if I could go back, I'd do more good. I'd be less concerned about me. I remember thinking I'd had this chance to be kind, to help. Was I? Did I?

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• November 27, 2012
  27Nov2012

  Another One: Waking Up To Life

  

  How often do you “wake up” to the beauty around you?

  My friend Pam McPhee, director of The Browne Center for Innovative Learning at the University of New Hampshire, tells the story of a Nicaraguan family she met on one of her many volunteer work trips. She was there to help improve sanitary conditions in the city of Managua and came upon a young woman and her children living in the most dire poverty.

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