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I have a friend that is always concerned about money. We all have friends and neighbors that are concerned about money. The difference in this case is that she and her husband have more income and “stuff” than many of their friends. Yet,  consistently,  conversation with her toggles between,  I am renovating my kitchen,  buying […]

How do you feel when you watch the news or read about it on the internet or in the newspaper?  I usually feel a little sick.  Can these things really be happening in our world?  How could one human intentionally harm another human? Malaise:  General feelings of discomfort or being ill-at-ease. When we hear about

I have recently been enrolled in the wound healing program by my earthly medical advisers and my Spiritual Adviser.  As far as my medical recovery is concerned,  I am using state of the art medical products and treatments.  One of the products is a wound dressing called Sorbact.  This mesh-like, green colored fabric  is hydrophobic. 

Maybe you have 200 contacts on Linkedin,  500 friends on Facebook and 30 people following you on Twitter (or “Twerps”).  This is what I call the social doughnut.  This doughnut is the sweet,  quick rush of sugar that has become the foundation and staple of our social diet.  It is a brain rush when we

I remember attending my first symphony orchestra concert in Cleveland, Ohio as a part of the third grade class trip to Severance Hall to see the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra.  I sat down and never noticed anything else thing around me until it was over.  I could not even remember breathing. I had lost all conscious

What a great example of “The Shock Factor” !  Watch this audition video of Johnny Robinson’s audition – The X Factor 2011 Things are not always what they seem on the outside.  You can’t judge a book by its cover.  Many times a completely different character is hidden under a physique, mannerism or psychological mask. 

Early on in my coach training I attended a tele-class on the do’s and don’ts of social media.  One of the ideas presented was that every once in a while you need to include a “rant”  in your weekly or daily blog posts.  Why?  Rants get more attention and responses than the good-natured, informative, “have

How often have we ordered food at a restaurant or clothes from an online catalog and said to ourselves when it came to us, “This is not what I expected;  this is not what I ordered!” Now sometimes,  the human error factor causes our desires to be misunderstood.  In the world of our thoughts,  are

“Our wellbeing actually recovers more rapidly from the death of a spouse than it does from a sustained period of unemployment.” from  Well Being by Tom Rath & Jim Harter Do you find this surprising?  The best way for me to begin to understand this “statistic”  is to recognize that we have rituals as well

The S&P 500®  (Standard & Poors) has been widely regarded as the best single gauge of the large cap U.S. equities market since the index was first published in 1957. … We attended the “Church down the Street” this past Sunday and one of the leaders made a comment that “What we should really be