Creative Success Depends on Long View
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The 2016 Yang Fire MonKey Book is Here
The 2016 Yang Fire Monkey…Year of Changeability and Unpredictability is now available for purchase.
The book may be purchased at http://www.maryshurtleff.com, http://www.amazon.com/ or http://www.barnesandnoble.com.
This year will prove [...]
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. [...]
Workplace Bullies: Don’t Let Them Defeat You
When we hear about bullying taking place, our first assumption is that it’s happening to a child or youth, however workplace bullying is ever-present, and often like many other younger victims, the bullied individual suffers silently.
Workplace [...]
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 [...]
Your Destiny Sings In Your Ears At the Darnedest Times
Each time I stand up in front of an audience, I invite every person in the room to accept himself or herself unconditionally.
“You are a one time miracle of the universe,” I boldly state. “Accept your height, weight, build, looks, hair, [...]
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 [...]
Dementia’s Terrible Legacy For Her Kids
At 93, my mother Vivien lives daily on the edge of the “long sleep” awaiting her after a dynamic life of work, dancing, sports, travel, golf, gardening and raising her children.
While her body continues its earthly journey, her mind leaves [...]
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, [...]
Do You Find a Way to Win or a Way to Lose? There May Be an Inner Browns Fan in All of Us
It’s not easy being a Browns Fan. We have endured a change of coach every 2 and a fraction years.
The Browns have had 13 starting quarterbacks since 1999, 22 quarterbacks that have played in parts of games, and 3 different owners in 16 years. [...]
Podcast: Changing Your Life Despite Your Circumstances
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Zelda Hayes is also known as LadyZee, author of Jezebels Last Dance: It’s Every Woman’s Story, which sets the stage of how trauma from childhood to adulthood play a huge part in the choices we make in love and life itself.
Changing [...]
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 [...]
Podcast: Redefining Responsibility In The New Economy
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Motivational Keynote Speaker and Business Growth Expert, Meridith Elliott Powell works with clients to help them instill ownership at every level to ensure profits at every turn. Meridith is the author of several books, including Winning [...]
Podcast: From Gloomy to ZESTY
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Linda Babulic is a ZEST Expert and author of ZEST Your Life – A Taste of Inner Wisdom which offers the confidence and happiness building recipe that women everywhere have been waiting for. From one-on-one consults, to [...]
Podcast: How To Choose Happiness
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Happiness Engineer and Gratitude Consultant Pas Simpson, specializes in helping people move out of their own way to follow their passion, define what success feels like to them, while building a lifetime of happiness. Pas is [...]
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 [...]
LeBron Knows: Do You Know What You Need to be Successful?
In Game 5 of this season, LeBron tore the sleeves off of his jersey while on the court at Madison Square Garden.
He knew what he needed to do to be successful. Kevin Love rolled up the sleeve of the jersey on his shooting arm. Perhaps the sleeves [...]
Talking Journalism in the Math Building
Robert De Niro got lots of attention last May when he told graduates of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts they were screwed.
The verb he used was actually harsher, and followed by the suggestion that they would have done better [...]
Living In The Conversation of Your Life
Six days a week, I wake up early, pull on my jeans and head to the recreation center where I commit my body to a two hour workout.
I swim a half-mile, lift weights, run, bicycle and meditate along with stretching in the hot tub. Why? I engage [...]
Speak Up About Something: Courage To Create Good In The World
Henry David Thoreau said, “The masses of men (and women) live lives of quiet desperation.”
That equates to the fact that most people lack the courage or incentive to get involved with the great events of life within their communities, states [...]
Can We Keep Calm In Every Situation Nowadays?
The internet meme of the British World War II slogan, “Keep Calm and Carry On” has morphed into any number of amusing applications.
The latest I saw was “Keep Calm and Have a Tarot Reading”! Is it really possible to keep calm in any [...]
What Kind of Buy-In Do You Need to Move Forward
Buy-in is very much a 21st century word.
I grew up in Akron Oh when Akron was rubber capital of the world. Firestone, Goodyear, Goodrich, General and the world made tires in Akron. We were taught in elementary school that Akron was the tire [...]
Podcast: The Talk You Should Have With Your Daughter
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Inspirational Speaker and Mentor Norma Joyce Dougherty is the author of the new book Island Girl: A Triumph of the Spirit, a memoir detailing her journey of self acceptance. Norma Joyce is passionate about helping young girls, [...]
You Are Valuable During Each Life Session
You are a blank slate as of this breath, neutral.
Whether you were very kind to many or you forgot to be, or became scared to be, you are loved. You are valuable. Whether you succeeded at your most yearned for endeavors, or fell short, or were [...]
Podcast: Create A Compelling Vision For Your Business
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Barney Kramer is the President of Strategic Management and an experienced leadership trainer, coach and entrepreneur that is with us today to discuss why creating a compelling vision is so important to the long term success of [...]
Podcast: Increase Team Performance In 4 Simple Steps
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Donald Hunter MBA, is the founder of a business coaching and consulting firm that creates solutions for teams to increase performance. As leadership coach, he implements four simple steps to help his clients boost productivity.
Increase [...]
How 21st Century Are You? Or Are You Stuck in the 80’s?
I loved my Daytimer. Perhaps you loved your Franklin planner.
I was more efficient with my beloved Day-timer than I am with my Smart phone, smart as it is. Even though I could take out my Day-Timer and make an appointment faster than those at [...]
Thinking: The Source of All Struggle
It’s thinking that gets you in trouble.
It’s your thoughts that cause your stress. The habit of living in your left brain has you thinking that you’re going insane and your life is a mess!
There’s a very simple solution to end the struggle [...]
Podcast: Working from Home: Disruption or Genius Design?
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Rebecca Barth is an entrepreneur, humorist, and author who has worked from home for over 9 years, leading teams, employees, and customers at a distance. She delivers keynotes sharing how igniting passion at work doesn’t look [...]
Podcast: Single But Not Alone
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Pastor Linda Marie Abu-Hamid is the author of Single But Not Alone. She draws on her own experiences as a single mother to share how you can always find support when you have faith, and that strength can help avoid heartache [...]
Podcast: Get Your Organization Unstuck
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Peter Boni is an entrepreneur, consultant and author of All Hands On Deck: Navigating your team through crises, getting your organization unstuck and emerging victorious. His insight has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, [...]
Podcast: How Outsider Candidates Can Improve Their Chances of Winning
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Political consultant Gerry O’Brien is the author of the upcoming book 1901. Gerry was the youngest candidate to ever run for the New York City Council, at 18 and has been involved with politics ever since. Gerry will discuss [...]
Podcast: Make The Most Of The Millennial Workforce
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Aaron Ziff is a partner at International Strategy & Consulting Inc, a management consulting firm specializing in business strategy, talent management, and HR technology. He consults primarily in the areas of employee engagement, [...]
David Versus Goliath: 3 Things Parents and Graduates of 2015 Need to Know
Congrats on your child’s recent graduation.
You were probably fortunate enough to hear a great commencement speaker at a college graduation. Robert De Niro, Maya Rudolph, Jon Bon Jovi, the Obama’s, and Flo from the Progressive Insurance [...]
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