Personal Growth

In the Diehard series of films, I was always wondering throughout if there was any building, street, bridge, car or aircraft that would survive the movie intact. There usually wasn’t and frankly that never disappointed me because the series star John McClane got the bad guys and was not likely to pass those same ways again. The same cannot be said for us in our everyday lives. We’re not action heroes so every person, relationship or organization that we push [...]

Last year I started a voiceover business. If you’re not sure what this is, think the guy or gal whose voice you hear when a TV or radio commercial plays, or the narrator guiding you through a documentary on the History Channel. This is a business where you audition constantly, facing off against literally hundreds of others competing for the same job. My auditions were rejected a lot. The reasons varied – “you’re not talented enough;” “that’s not the tone [...]

It’s not necessarily something you have to pay for; it can just as easily come from someone in your life who has the courage to give it It’s not delivered with your feelings in mind; it’s delivered to improve your position It’s practical, solution or outcome-focused It’s never a bunch of bloviating opinion or rhetoric whereby the giver of the advice eventually winds up talking about themselves; instead, the focus stays on you It challenges you to summon up and [...]

You betcha. Particularly when it drives concern if you were to stop doing it. Examples of good “what iffing” might be: […]