Creative Success Depends on Long View
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Organizational Leadership
Here’s top ten tips for organizational leaders who want to create a resilient organization:
Three judges, professional dancers, and a cast of celebrities strategically work together each week to learn a new routine on the television program, [...]
Podcast: How Does Childhood Shape The Ability To Love?
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Today’s JenningsWire podcast guest is writer, Carrie Herzner, who when burdened by the suggestion that her genetics and upbringing were to blame for the failure of her marriage, chronicled her journey of discovery as she reconnected [...]
OF MYTH AND LEGEND: STURGIS MOTORCYCLE RALLY
They say, “Good girls go to heaven and bad girls go to Sturgis!”
That’s why ALL the boys, including preacher’s sons, go to Sturgis! On the back of one motorcycle rider’s shirt, “One week of Sturgis makes the other 51 weeks bearable!”
The [...]
Packing My Love to Go with Me
2016.
My time finding my main home in Santa Cruz is up. The living room has flooded. The over grown traffic has driven through my partnership with ocean-air! Winds usher me to another town. I will continue to offer sessions to clients [...]
An Enormous Mountain of Emotional Bliss
Backcountry mountaineering takes guts, gumption and strength.
Not for the meek. Not for the lazy. Not for the mild. It taxes and tantalizes at the same time. The wilderness summons the deep, primordial spirit of mountain men and women. It spills [...]
What Do You Do With Despair?
On your life journey, different events take hold of you whether you like it or not.
One day you can be riding high; and the next, you feel lower than a well-digger’s rear end at the bottom of a mineshaft. Life doesn’t care about your looks, [...]
A Blind Man’s Quest To Backpack The World
From the inception of the human race on planet Earth, intrepid men and women followed their ‘adventure inclinations’ to explore the continents, oceans and outer space.
Some raft, some swim, some climb and some fly. And some sling a heavy [...]
You and Your Big Idea
Have a big idea?
Had one and let it slip away because it’s too crazy, it won’t work, don’t have enough time, costs too much, family will disapprove – yeah, there are all kinds of good reasons why you shouldn’t go ahead with your big [...]
Podcast: How Humor Can Help Cancer Patients
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Dr. Rajiv Samant is a radiation oncologist and author of Smiles From The Clinic: A Humorous Look At Cancer – a cartoon book designed for cancer patients, health care professionals and anyone who has been touched by cancer, [...]
Your Spirit of Adventure: It Carries You to the Ends of the Earth
The difference between an average life and a fantastic life of adventure as defined by you, hinges on three things…
Your thoughts that become realities by your hand; actions that move you toward your destiny; and, a deep persistence knowing [...]
Game Over—Huddle Up!
One of the most meaningful meetings is after the game.
Whether you won or lost matters little to this gathering, because this is the moment you can evaluate and learn about what worked and your failures. Learning opportunities are your gift; [...]
Create Smart Goals to Score Big
You won’t make it across the goal line if you don’t learn how to manage the scrimmage line.
I suggest you utilize the S.M.A.R.T. principle to focus your goals and craft guiding power questions to make your team a winner. Are your goals specific? [...]
Are You a Star Quarterback on a Winning Team?
The position of your team members is a part of your plan that you need to carefully define.
Team roles are important to fulfill accurately so you have all the coverage you need for the abilities you desire. Each step of your action plan will [...]
Is There Anything Verifiable We Can Really Count On? Polls, Pundits and Polarizing Opinions
Recently a client called upset with his CEO.
He read the handwriting on the wall. Or so he thought. He just wasn’t sure what the handwriting was saying. Should the client stay? Should the client leave? Should he look at the myriad of other [...]
Confessions of a Shy Girl
Let’s set the bar straight.
Everyone loves each other. Everyone watches one another. We all like each other. We are intrigued by one another. Forget what you think or what so and so said. This love and like is inherent. Cats and dogs show [...]
Losing Your Friends: Vacancies of the Heart
Along life’s highway, you will befriend countless people from school, work, sports and church.
Each person offers you different degrees of friendship. Some casual, some close and a few become best friends. Gym-rat friends encourage you. Work [...]
Podcast: Ancient Secrets of Manifesting Revealed
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Ken Elliot is the author of the award winning book, Manifesting 123, and you don’t need #3. Learn simple steps to eliminate worry and manifest the desires of your life with Manifesting 123!
Ancient Secrets of Manifesting [...]
Podcast: Dealing with the Loss of a Pet
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Veterinarian Dr. Liz Fernandez is the author of the new book Sacred Gifts of a Short Life: Uncovering Wisdom of our Pets End of Life Journeys, and she offers us the silver lining that can be uncovered as we embrace the broken [...]
Know Your Team
You need at least one expert team to help you achieve your goals, and you may need many to reach success.
Think about all the teams you have in place now. Your work, doctor’s office, grocery store, coffee shop all function as teams that serve [...]
Life Is Too Short: Get Off Your Cell Phone
During my youth, my dad took me fishing.
My mom took me on bicycle rides. My dad shouldered me with a small daypack for hikes in the woods. He pointed out chattering squirrels. He helped me see my first deer. He pointed out a fox on a ridge. [...]
Four Personal Keys to Kick Off Your Year
It’s easy to kick off your year focusing on the big stuff you want to accomplish.
You’ll find plenty of encouragement to make vast goals so you can attain great things, but as a coach I know that making big goals alone usually ends up [...]
When You Retire: Reinventing Yourself at Midlife
With a surprising number of boomers heading towards retirement, most are not ready to spend their days hitting the golf balls or playing bridge.
Instead they are looking to the future with enthusiasm and gusto. Why? Because they know that now [...]
Along Our Life Path: Death Hides In The Bushes
At the age of 17 while driving home from baseball practice, my father’s best friend pulled me over in my Chevy clunker.
He walked up to my window with a sad look on his face.
“Frosty,” he said. “I’ve got some bad news for you…your [...]
Four Things to Consider When Taking a Risk in This New Year
You may have already begun taking the steps to see your New Year’s resolutions come to fruition.
Perhaps you finally got around to joining that gym, or maybe you were able to confront a friend about something on your mind that’s [...]
What Sports Taught Me about My Business Plan and Yearly Goals
You’ve probably read plenty of headlines hawking that you need to plan your year wisely with success in mind.
You’re told to make new resolutions that fix challenges, and you’ve heard the pumped up messages intended to inspire change [...]
Be Free In The Problem
Problems! Everybody experiences them.
You might call “life challenges” your classroom for living. If you notice—every movie, play, sitcom, drama, thriller and adventure story features problems for the protagonist to face and overcome. [...]
A Toast Needs a Ghost: 3 Reasons Why Wedding Toasts Are So Painful
A Toast Needs a Ghost: 3 Reasons WHY Wedding Toasts Are So Painful
My feet were permanently damaged. Or so I thought. Standing for an hour in shoes not designed for standing made me a temporary cripple. In fact, standing for over an hour listening [...]
Loneliness Is Merely an Attitude You Can Abolish Today!
Nobody — whether single, in a long-term committed relationship or anything in between — is completely immune from that often-painful feeling of loneliness.
That is, however, until you can see it for what it is: an attitude that’s [...]
Wishing Everyone a Civil 2016
The New Year always brings the opportunity to reflect on the past and potential improvement for the following year.
New Year’s resolutions typically include losing weight, quitting smoking, joining a gym, or even saving money. One thing to [...]
Divorced or Separated With Kids? Here Are 3 Tips for Helping Them Through This Holiday Season
The holiday season seems to come upon us earlier and earlier each year.
Even before Thanksgiving, I started to notice all of the signs — colorful lights strung in front of houses, a glimpse of lit trees through windows and cheerful holiday [...]
A Holiday Tip: Home Is Where Civility Is…
The holidays can be a fun loving time and a chance to create some beautiful new memories.
In contrast, the holidays can be a stressed filled season reminiscent of arguments from the ghosts of Christmas past. MSN Travel reports that over 100 [...]
How To Empty Your Emotional Backpack When It Gets Too Heavy
Each winter I load my backpack up for mountaineering skiing to 10th Mountain Huts in the Rocky Mountains.
I load survival gear to make sure I don’t die while I cross-country up to the top of 13,000-foot mountains at 40 below zero. In the summers, [...]
Podcast: Get It Together Girl
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Karyn Beach is the host of the Get It Together Girl Podcast, where she celebrates women in their Fabulous 40s, Feisty 50s and encourages them to make their second act their best act.
Get It Together Girl
What is the Second [...]
The Voluptuousness Of Living
“Everything is downhill from here, ‘cept what’s up…it’s all in your attitude.” Katie Lee, 95, Jerome, Arizona, singer, environmental activist.
Long ago, before modern communications, before electric lights, before mobility—people [...]
Pulling On A Life-Coat That Fits Your Aspirations
Too often, countless Americans stumble out of high school into ill-suited jobs, incompatible relationships and no plans for the future.
They hang with discordant jobs in order to write checks for food, rent and car payments. Without using an [...]
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