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ARTArticleThe “TMI” Trend: Discretion equals professionalism in today’s workplaceToday with all the personally revealing reality shows on TV and the sharing of way too much private and intimate information on social media sites the trend for Too Much Information (TMI) is naturally spreading into the workplace. More and more professionals are getting caught in the trap of revealing personal information in a way that is unprofessional, inappropriate for the office, and can even make others feel uncomfortable. Once the cat is out of the bag it can be impossible to remedy the situation and the damage is done.ARTArticleThe #1 Leadership Communication Problem That's Stopping Your Employees from Doing Exactly What You WantCommunication is a catch-all phrase for things that go wrong in companies and relationships. Unfortunately, the concept is too ambiguous to do anything constructive to fix it.
I've identified seven communication mistakes that lead to mis-understandings, and cause conflicts between co-workers, and bosses and their subordinates which lead to low morale and toxic work environments. I call them "The 7 Deadly Sins of Organizational Leadership Communication."
The least understood and most common of the sins is communicating with a lack of specificity.ARTArticleThe 47 Year RutThere is an old saying, “A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.” Ever feel like your life or career has hit a rut and from there you can see no way out? Ask anyone today if they love their job and almost unanimously you will here…NO! How sad is that? Think of how great it would be to get up everyday and love to go to work. That is exactly how I feel and when people ask me, “When are you going to retire”, I say never!ARTArticleThe 7 Deadly Sins of Organizational Leadership CommunicationUpon completing a recent project I took my client to lunch to thank him for his business. We reminisced about how we first met at my End Procrastination NOW!ARTArticleThe Awesome Powers of Lateral ThinkingYou are a lateral thinker. In a few moments we're going to see just how good you really are!
Lateral thinking is reasoning. If successful, it results in an elegant solution to a seemingly impossible problem. The perfectly ingenious answer will seldom be reached using traditional step-by-step logic or pedantic thinking. Each of us has tapped into our genius from time to time to magically apply lateral thinking to a problem or personal conundrum. Lateral thinking, like any skill, can be greatly enhanced with a little practice and understanding.ARTArticleThe Battle of Negative Body Image3 Ways to “Get Over It!”
The issue of negative body image seems to be, quite frankly, beaten to death. Resurrected, and beaten again.
Everywhere we look, we see headlines condemning the media for creating this obsession with our bodies, and yet, the headlines themselves are developed from the same source that put the retouched photos, and deathly thin models in the spotlight in the first place.ARTArticleThe Benefits of Having a Coach in Your CornerAlthough coaching is beginning to gain some momentum in the nonprofit field, most nonprofit professionals don't understand what coaching is or how it can be of value to them in their personal or professional life. Also, individuals often confuse coaching with therapy, counseling, or consulting.ARTArticleTHE ELECTRIC ENERGY OF EFT: Why Not Energy MedicineIs it useful to describe EFT as energy medicine? To many people the phrase energy medicine suggests a religious or alte
ative lifestyle. Lots of websites associate energy medicine with spiritual healing. Since many mainstream searchers of alte
ative healing are not comfortable with the energy soul-spirit idea, the energy medicine label places unnecessary limits on the appeal of EFT to the broadest population at a time when we want to encourage the world to ‘try it on everything’.ARTArticleThe Event Horizons Of The Mind And The Great DeceptionPersonal Responsibility Or Personal GratificationARTArticleThe Face Of Fear And IgnoranceFear Grows Only In The Dark
Fear has many faces and not all of them are recognizable as fear. We have such a strong negative social perception of being afraid that we often disguise it as something more acceptable to our conscience. But fear is so prevalent in our civilization today that it could easily be viewed as a global pandemic because fear, like any disease, is contagious and is easily spread by the power of words and even body language. But the most important fact to know about fear, is that it grows in the darkness of ignorance.ARTArticleThe Human Characteristics Of The Success MindsetThe Human Factors
Success is as much about attitude as it is about skills. You can have all the skills in the world and still fail to achieve an objective. Setting goals, defining objectives and creating plans designed to achieve those objectives is essential of course, but really successful people know that there is a human factor to the success equation that can and often does make the difference between success and failure.
These human characteristics are usually invisible and work in the background and this is why they rarely receive the attention they deserve.ARTArticleThe Importance Of Managing The MindMind, The Two Edged BladeARTArticleThe Landscape of ConsciousnessMind
Most of us make the mistake of taking consciousness for granted as we do so many other things. The act of taking things for granted can have really bad consequences because it affectively limits the possibility of achieving a deep understanding of a given subject because we simply don't investigate the things we take for granted. One of the consequences of taking the landscape of consciousness for granted is the shallow superficial world we live in today.
How many of us even give a moment's thought to the idea of consciousness?ARTArticleThe Lies We Live WithAround the sixth month of my pregnancy with my second son, my hip locked up to the point of debilitating pain. I had experienced something similar in my first pregnancy, but the second time was more extreme and I knew I needed help. I booked an appointment with a bodyworker and hobbled my way to his office. He asked if I was enjoying my pregnancy and I said, “I love that I’m pregnant but I hate being pregnant.”
He laughed and said that when his wife was miserably pregnant he conducted an informal poll, asking pregnant women everywhere if they enjoyed it.ARTArticleThe Most Important Non-Renewable Resource: Keeping Your Eye on the PrizeWe spend every day in the trenches. Putting out today’s fire. Rising to the next occasion. We focus on moving the proverbial ball down the field. Little thought is given to what it means to cross the goal line.
I recently had occasion to enjoy a cup of coffee with a client towards the end of the day. It was a perfect time for us to sit back and just catch up.ARTArticleThe Natural Fear of ListeningA major barrier to listening to another person, without interruption, is the notion that silence may condone agreement. If someone is talking and we nod or indicate that we’re listening by saying “uh-huh,” a common fear is that the speaker may confuse our failure to object with our agreement. The speaker may even suddenly switch topics under the delusion that you share his view, which lays the setting for a future irresolvable argument.ARTArticleThe Nuts And Bolts Of Self ConfidenceThe BasicsARTArticleThe Nuts And Bolts Of Self EsteemConfiguring Self EsteemARTArticleThe Nuts And Bolts Of Success And HappinessThe Origins Of Concepts
Most of us use the terms success and happiness without having a clue what they really are and where they come from. We talk about them as if they are a condition or commodity that we can purchase or trade. We think they come from material wealth, satisfying relationships, all things that produce pleasure, other people and of course things. But are success and happiness even real? Have any of us ever been successful and happy all the time? Is that even possible? Just what are these things we call success and happiness and do we have any control over them?ARTArticleThe Perfect Job is a Lifestyle ChoiceI've lived through an amazing time.
At university, the computer they used (just one) was the size of a house, used valves instead of transistors, and was programmed using punch tape. If you made a mistake it printed out random numbers until you, quite literally, pulled the plug out. Wonderful.
For my first job I needed a suit, and I had to respond to customer's letters by writing, "I am in receipt of your favour of the 18th ultimo..." Utterly brilliant. It sounds medieval but it's not that long ago.ARTArticleThe Person We Think We Are And The World We Think Is RealWho Are You?ARTArticleThe Physical Impact Of Our ThoughtsSelf Imposed Ignorance
The idea that there is a connection between the thoughts generated by our mind and the physical phenomenon we experience has never received much attention. Awareness of this particular reality carries too many potentially dangerous implications for those of us who have a vested interest in maintaining a certain level of ignorance in this area.ARTArticleThe Power of Desire Without AttachmentFor many years I've had mixed feelings about my wants and have been a bit confused about the true power of desire. While I know that desire is an essential piece of the manifestation process, I also know that focusing a lot of my attention and energy on what I want has caused a great deal of fear, pain, and disappointment in my life. Over emphasizing my desire has also gotten in my way of appreciating all that I already have and who I really am at the deepest level.ARTArticleThe Science of Light and ReflectionAs I started my meditation this morning, I asked for a “clearly lighted path.” As many are these days, I have been navigating some challenges searching for “the” path to take into my “future.”
As I write this, I realize how much I have neglected the teachings of my prior article, “And The River Flows…” Finding joy in each day, as I shared in this article, is a process of simply allowing the moment to be as it is and fully take it in. Speaking of “paths” and “future” contradicts this process.ARTArticleThe Search for Perfection: From Marrying to Buying a House“Perfection is for the Gods; completeness and wholeness is the most humans can hope for.” – Marion WoodmanARTArticleThe Seven Stages of Becoming Single AgainEnding a long term relationship can be devastating, destructive and depressing but… there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Having experienced at first hand a 21 year marriage blast apart with a hurricane force, I know that the effect is, to put it mildly, earth-stopping. If you’ve ever experienced being hung, drawn and quartered and then tried to put your self together again into some sort of presentable and functioning human being you’ll know exactly what I mean!ARTArticleThe Simple Way to Beat Procrastination and Get Things DoneAlmost everyone has struggled with procrastination at some point in their lives. Today's busy lifestyle seems to encourage procrastination by forcing us to instantaneously prioritize according to our hectic schedules.
However, this leads to a false sense of accomplishment, because we are not prioritizing in the right way.
Many important tasks are left undone because other things appear to be more important at the moment. Eventually, the undone task becomes critical on our to-do list, but there is no time to get it done.ARTArticleThe Symptoms and Impact of Lack of Work Life BalanceDo you get up from bed each morning with dread and anxiety about what faces you at work?
• Do you feel like you have to make “through” each day?
• Are you completely exhausted by the time you get home each night?
• Do you see life as a merry go round over which you have no control?
• Do you find yourself wishing you had a clone or more time to get everything you need done?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, its very likely you have a work life in-balance.ARTArticleThe Three Rhythms of Workflow - Getting and Staying in the GrooveIt's been a rock and roll day here at QuietSpacing(R) central. Monday's always are ... for most of us. Between all the things I shoved into this week from last week, the things everyone else shoved into this week, and the collective exigencies that popped up over the weekend, it's a wonder Monday ever ends!ARTArticleThe Three Top Personal Development ToolsTools For Change
Our tools represent capability and therefore power. Personal development has an array of tools specially designed to work with the unique characteristics of Human behavior and here I look at three of the most effective and powerful of these tools, meditation, visualization and affirmation. An e-book could be written about each of these three tools by themselves, but I chose to write about these three together because of the fact that when they are used in an integrated manner their power is multiplied many times over.