by Margaret Anderson | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog
People often believe they disagree when, in fact, they only interpret a word or phrase in different ways. If they clarify their interpretations, the “disagreement” disappears. A party to a lawsuit might puff up his chest and declare he’ll never settle if, in his mind,...
by Margaret Anderson | Jun 13, 2017 | Blog
Some people categorically refuse to discuss politics and religion. They call this a “rule.” It’s a good general practice for purely social occasions. But like most rules, it has exceptions, and the exceptions increase in troubled times. In grade school, I learned that...
by Margaret Anderson | Jun 7, 2017 | Blog
I love it when my trainees not only learn, but also contribute to others’ learning. In a recent training course, several participants made great suggestions for clarifying email. As I’ve mentioned many times, written communication is actually more easily...
by Margaret Anderson | Jun 1, 2017 | Blog
In Part I of this series, I explained The Law of Attraction, aka “The Secret”: we attract what we focus on, whether good or bad. I borrowed from The Rev. Fred Small’s experience to support my conviction that, once we’ve educated ourselves about a particular issue, we...
by Margaret Anderson | May 15, 2017 | Blog
I wondered how to keep my financial consultant reading this article beyond the words “The Secret”[1], a book and movie that explores the Law of Attraction, the idea that we attract what we focus on. Happily, I found that a Unitarian Universalist minister, Rev. Fred...
by Margaret Anderson | May 13, 2017 | Blog
The most important thing my mother (and my father, too) taught me was to think about how my actions might affect others. This formed an essential element of my moral compass, my concepts of right and wrong. This element, considering things from others’ perspectives,...
