“High performance.” Lots of buzz around that one. We know we want it. We know we appreciate it when we get it. We get it from each other, and marketing tells us we get it from our commodities. We want to deliver it. Ask yourself this: where is the support for it in your environment? I am reading excerpts from a book published just over a year ago, Shared Values - Shared Results: Positive Organizational Health as a Win-Win Philosophy. Dee Edington, co-author, notes we m

Growth is painful. And scary. And uncertain. And uncomfortable. Staying stuck is worse, even if supposedly less uncomfortable. Staying stuck is actually more painful in the long run, it's just that we have a tendency to deny our discomfort, and fix against it so that we don't have to feel it, and maintain our pretense of comfort. The discomfort, the pain, the hurts do not go away. They just get buried underneath our denial. And it is scary to lift the lid, the manhole

In 1996 I learned how powerful Praise, Gratitude, Love and Compassion can be. In that order. When I first intentionally activated the power of Praise, Gratitude, Love and Compassion with a simple and powerful methodology, I experienced a profound inner peace I had never known before. Using those uplifting emotions literally changes your mind. Starting with how simple it is to express Praise, you can literally and in real time change your internal chemistry from fear based

My emotions either take me more into my mind or more into my soul. We believe our heart is the center of our emotional world. There are two very different levels of your heart. In Sanskrit, there are two distinct and different words for the heart chakra, often misunderstood to be interchangeable. The first, anahata, describes the more surface level of your heart, where all your emotions live and move, both positive and negative: joy, contentment, anticipation, admiration, s