Posts Tagged "trust"
Need a Job? Three Steps to Take Now
The fact that millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed is not news. Although we seem to be engaged in Einstein’s infamous trap of ‘doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.’ Policy makers are debating how to entice businesses into hiring more people and the unemployed are angry and frustrated over the lack of available positions. Nearing record-breaking unemployment rates, perhaps it is time to consider a different route to finding meaningful, satisfying, and rewarding work in people’s lives. As we’ve discussed here before, creating jobs won’t help our economy. If you are looking for a job, or know someone who...
Read MoreThree Easy Steps To Connection
As I ponder topics for my blog, I often look to issues that are coming up with my clients, family, friends, or those with whom I have recently interacted. I enjoy looking at shared stories and themes, and just like Twitter, my experience has taught me that there are trending topics in life. The one that is currently on the front burner is fear of being real in relationships—there is a universal longing for meaningful connections at work, home and socially and yet, people are opting to keep themselves distanced and protected, inadvertently shutting out the very thing they are longing to create in their lives. I don’t know if the age of the Internet, texting and...
Read MoreThe Courage to Trust
Courage: the ability to do something that frightens one. Trust: firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, and strength of someone or something. One need only turn on the news for a few moments to be overwhelmed with the human drama playing out in the world right now. Revolutionary movements attempting to topple dictatorships, natural disasters of epic proportions and the politics of fear driving policy-making bodies to the brink of implosion only add to the realities each of us face in our daily lives that threaten our safety and security. It is no wonder stress is rampant. As I have searched in the past few days to find an answer as to how I can make a...
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