The Magic of Looking Inside Yourself
When things aren’t going so well, it’s easy to think the problem is "out there." I know because I’ve been there. In fact, in 2008 I was in a dark place for almost a year and I was looking for the...
View ArticleMastering Your Emotions
In the past two weeks, I’ve worked with a number of clients dealing with a crisis, going through a conflict at work or home or who are dealing with some incredibly challenging situations in life....
View ArticleCoach Yourself to Greatness
Coach Yourself to Greatness Last year a large government agency related to health asked me to design and facilitate a two day workshop on coaching for their supervisors and managers. I did the workshop...
View ArticleCoach or Critic?
Monday I was interviewed on a popular podcast on the subject of happiness. Two thirds of the way through the interview I was asked to share one of the secrets from my book “Seven Secrets to Enlightened...
View ArticleAn Uncomfortable Question
None of us really comes close to the edge of our true potential. We don't even know what our real potential is. In fact, we all have unexpressed potential we don't have a clue about. True, a few of us...
View ArticleMagnetic Thinking
We’ve all heard of the Self-fulfilling prophecy. What we believe and expect to happen tends to happen. I call that “Magnetic Thinking.” Our thinking, our beliefs, our assumptions and our expectations...
View ArticleDenial in the Workplace
Over the course of the past two weeks, I’ve had discussions with three senior managers about various challenges their organizations are dealing with. Or to be more precise, challenges the senior...
View ArticleInspire Yourself to Greater Achievements
As an executive coach, I have the privilege of working with successful individuals and companies. Over the years I’ve noticed how my clients use their success to inspire themselves to even greater...
View ArticleOutrageously Positive
I have a client who gets up every morning with hope, optimism and and inspiration to live fully. The thing is she has every reason to wake up angry, cynical and even depressed. No one would blame her...
View ArticleYour Self-Concept and Success
Everyone wants to be successful, happy and fulfilled in life. We want to succeed in our careers, relationships, health and everywhere else. What does it take to become and achieve our goals and dreams...
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The Amazon Uproar: Happiness at Work Matters
A couple of weeks ago The New York Times ran a scathing article portraying the Amazon work culture as anything but a happy environment. Whether that’s true or not, the question of happiness in the...
View ArticleInstant Happiness
About a month ago I delivered my two day workshop, “Leader as Coach” for a large organization. Everyone there was very smart and accomplished and wanted to learn how to coach their teams. On the second...
View ArticleUnleashing More of Your Potential: Three Keys
In the past several years I’ve worked with several organizations that are leaders in their industries. The individuals and teams I coached or trained are doing well and they know it. They also know...
View ArticleWhy This New Study On Happiness Is Wrong
If you want to be happier, you might want to ignore this new study--or at least see the holes in it. Here's what it says: "A new study suggests you won’t be as happy as you are now for about another...
View ArticleHow to Choose How You Feel, No Matter What
What would life be like if you had control over how you feel regardless of what’s going on in your life at the moment? Most people don’t think that’s possible. Let me explain: About twenty years ago I...
View ArticleHow to Feel Invincible, Despite the Critics
Invincible: Too powerful to be defeated or overcome. Synonyms: indestructible, unconquerable, unbeatable, indomitable, unassailable. I just read a story that made me stop and think. The story is just a...
View ArticleThe Courage to Be Unhappy For a Time
You might think it strange for me to writing about the courage to be unhappy given my book is all about enlightened happiness. Yet in my work as a former psychotherapist and now as a coach in both the...
View ArticleAre You Amazing? Really, What Do You Think?
Rumi was a 13th century Persian mystic poet, someone with mind-blowing insights into life, meaning, spirituality and human potential. Here's what he wrote about human potential: You were born with...
View ArticleWhat’s Holding You Back Isn’t What You Think
When a speaker asks a group, “What is the biggest thing that keeps most people from pursuing their l dreams?” the answer is almost always “Fear.” Fear seems to be behind a lot of things without us even...
View ArticleYou Can Have More Happiness, Here’s How
If you read a book on happiness or listen to a speaker on the topic, we’re told that many, if not most people, have a happiness problem—they’re just not that happy. You won’t hear that from me though....
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