Tips from My Trainees

Tips from My Trainees

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...
Politics and The Law of Attraction, Part II

Politics and The Law of Attraction, Part II

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...
Politics and the Law of Attraction, Part I

Politics and the Law of Attraction, Part I

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...
Mother’s Influence

Mother’s Influence

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,...
Right & Left (Brains) Meet Again

Right & Left (Brains) Meet Again

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how a right-brained source, The Book of Joy[1], led to the same conclusion as the left-brained Harvard Negotiation Project sources. Both show us the possibility of the true win-win, in which no one has to compromise. These...