Brian Graham

Round Peg, Round Hole

You know this phrase, it means that the person chosen for a task is perfectly suited to that task.  Round peg, square hole means we are trying to force an issue  or person to conform to a shape it was never intended to fill. Do you ever feel like a round peg in a square […]

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I’m rubber, you’re glue

Remember that chant from grade school? How about “I know you are, but what am I?” How could we fully understand the truth behind these two phrases when we were but 10 years old?  Yet there it is, there is a big persons truth in these words too, although we might not want to use

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Making a virtue of stubborness

Change is scary.  This is one truth we all share.  Some changes give us the same feeling as the big drop on a roller coaster, scared and thrilled at the same moment, Other changes are just plain uncomfortable.  I understand that. Some of us take great pride in remaining stuck; “My parents did it this way, it

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I want more!

You work hard.  You come through in a pinch.  Your co-workers and upper level management know you can be counted upon to do the right thing.  So how come there is so little joy from your work?  This is not an experience unique to you.  And this feeling is not restricted to people in large firms: the same experience is

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Integrity

Integrity is a word I hear coming out of my mouth very often.  I hear it more often in my own head as I ask myself “Am I standing in my integrity about this?”.  Have you ever thought what integrity is, let alone what integrity is in your life?  We certainly cannot insist others live up to

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What’s YOUR story?

You have a story about your life.  I have a story about my life. Everyone has a story about their life; who they are, why they do what they do, and they (we) tell that story all the time.  We tell it to anyone who will listen, sometimes they are listening unwillingly, but most of all

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Forever Young

Is it impossible to be forever young?  Yes it is; at least in concept.  You see every three days our body changes over our cells, out with the old, in with the new.  We see the same process being used in stem cell work. Stem cells are non-specific in what they do.  They can be

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That’s Not YOUR Issue

We project.  We project our feelings.  We project our feelings on others, and hold them responsible for what and how we feel.  This is the basis of judgement towards other people.  If we are afraid that we do not drive as well as we think we do, we are very intolerant of other peoples driving

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Body Image

It’s no secret, one of the most insidious things to overcome is our own image of our bodies.  Does this seem superficial to you?  Nothing is superficial when it works right to the depths of how we feel about ourselves. As with so many of our “issues” the idea of how our body should look

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Imagine That!

Can you imagine what it was like to live in a time when the earth was flat, the sun revolved around the earth and it was impossible for humans to fly except in mythology? The truth is those days and these days are not all that different.  The people I have described were people of

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