•Are You Listening to Me?
? The difference between hearing sound and listening to the message
There is a dramatic difference between listening and hearing. Hearing is the sense by which sound is perceived. Listening is to try to hear something, to pay attention.
The other significant point about listening is that often people to not listen to understand, they listen to respond. They may be paying attention to what you are saying, however, at the same time they are forming a response to what you are saying....
•Finding the Strength to Handle Grief
Replenish your inner strength while going through the grieving process
Saint Augustine of Hippo - "Love is the beauty of the soul."
Just three weeks after my husband of 15 years passed away a family friend and psychologist said to me, "Even the Rock of Gibraltar needs to lean on someone." It was his way of inviting me to get counseling and help in replenishing my strength, either from him or another trusted professional. He was warning me that I could not be strong for everyone else without...
•Gratitude in the Simplest Form
There is a proverb that states it takes a village to raise a child. In today's world of bi-continental relationships, electronic gadgets that reach us everywhere, year-round sports for our children and immediate access to data we find ourselves somewhat overwhelmed. This puts us in a position where working together, as a neighborhood, company, family or community becomes even more valuable.
When others help out how can we let them know what they did mattered? How do we show our gratitude?...
•Leaping into Entrepreneurship--How to Set Up Your Own Network of Experts
When my business partners and I decided we wanted to venture into being entrepreneurs by starting our own ecommerce business we knew there was so much to learn. We had chosen an industry in which none of my partners nor I had any experience, but a great deal of interest.
It seemed a little overwhelming at times, but then I flashed back to every positioned I had ever held. I thought about what made me successful in those positions. I came to realize my success had always come from reaching...
•Take Charge of Your Thoughts -- The Power of the Mind to Create a New Reality
We've written in the past about staying positive in a negative world, but sometimes our battle isn't with the world at large but within ourselves. Our own negative thoughts or feelings of doubt are more of an enemy than worldwide circumstances. When everything is going exactly as planned, or at least close enough to the plan, it doesn't really matter what's going on outside our own little corner of the world. The greater challenge is when the struggle is just within our own mind.
We can...
•The 30-Day Challenge to A More Positive Perspective
I had the privilege of attending a graduation party for a friend of ours that just completed her master's course after the wonderful age of 40. Exact age will be withheld because she doesn't look or act her age. As I mingled with people mostly of higher educational backgrounds, I realized how cynical the world we live in truly is. I also discovered how little faith we have in others and ourselves. This wasn't anything directed at any single person or this exact situation just an overall...
•The Power of the Ripple Effect
How one life, one choice can change the world
There isn't a person alive who would not like to think that their life has made a difference in the life of someone else. We hope to positively impact our friends and families and maybe even our neighbors and co-workers. The truth is that many of us will never know the full extent to which even our smallest of actions may have a lasting impression.
July 4th, 2008, I was on the bank of the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts along with over...
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