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Is it wrong to change your mind?  Of course not!  Yet too many of us feel reluctant, guilty or foolish when we change our minds, especially when we have been public about earlier decisions! [...]

The first time I went to Europe I was a teenager.  Arriving in Madrid, smelling garlic simmering in olive oil, I knew I wasn’t in Kansas (or in Jackson, Tennessee in my case) anymore.  The [...]

Do you ever find yourself saying If Only? If Only I lived in… If Only I had a different degree… If Only I were older, younger, single, married, thinner, richer… Teresa came to our [...]

Have you spent time and money looking for the magic nugget that will help you have the life, the relationship, the business you want?  Have you ever thought that maybe this book, this seminar, [...]

Unless you have a meditation practice, you might think you don’t have one.  We generally associate mantras and meditation.  In Hinduism a mantra is a word or sound you repeat like a prayer.  In [...]

Last Thursday I was watching the sun rise out of the Atlantic from the coast of South Carolina.  On Monday, I was watching the sunset in English Bay in Vancouver on the edge of the Pacific [...]

Is your boss grumpy or unappreciative? Do you have a co-worker who takes credit for your ideas? Is your company or industry in decline? Most of us don’t do anything about situations like these [...]

Do you have a dream to make the world a better place?  Build stronger neighborhoods, improve the educational system, change how we use energy, create access to capital for overlooked [...]

A newly wed wife came home from work one day to find her husband had prepared a roast.  She was thrilled, but puzzled: he had cut the ends off the roast before cooking it.  In her sweetest [...]