When someone speaks to me it really doesn’t matter what they say, it is my own voice I hear. Whatever preconceived notions I have about any topic will filter what I hear, and this is what leads to communication challenges for us all. This tendency to hear anything through our own filters is present in each and […]
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We may be walking around experiencing life, but that does not mean we are living life. Many people are simply Shells in Time, taking meaning from other peoples lives, letting the beliefs of others define who and what they are. Living, but not alive. Choicefull Living Seminars is committed to helping us out of this limbo of life;
The first step in any change is releasing the idea that no change is necessary. Put another way, change can only take place when our beliefs in our old limitations end. Our ingrained beliefs are very powerful things. They can actually set up protective barriers to prevent them being released. They are self-protecting and
When we are “shifting responsibility” it means trying to place blame on someone else through carefully crafted wordsmithing. Call it what you wish, placing the blame on someone else to get us off the hook is bad ju-ju. Look around you, you know someone in your circle who is very skilled at shirking responsibility for
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As we set our intentions for what we want to be, do and have being clear is essential; clear to the point of actually envisioning ourselves doing, being or having. But it is not enough to vision our dreams and dream of ourselves in that place, there are also steps to take to actually being
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Men and Women do not actually speak different languages, what is different is how the message of that language is delivered. Working with different communication styles has been the journey I have been on while writing Bear and Butterfly, and I really want to share what I have learned with you. In Bear and Butterfly I break
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It is one of the most basic of all communication truths; Information is Power. One of the challenges we have in today’s world is that we are bombarded with information, some of this information is true, some questionable, and some of that information is outright false. In this bombardment of information it is quite easy
It’s OK to feel sad, it’s OK to feel happy. It’s OK to doubt ourselves, It’s OK to walk in absolute confidence. Way too often in the world of positive thinking we get the idea that when we inevitably find ourselves feeling out of sorts that we are doing something wrong. This is simply not
On the eve of this Valentines Day it is important to remember you cannot share love you do not have within you already. If your balance in the Bank of Love is a little low right now there is something you can do; remember that a smile will hug a heart. A smile will
When I find myself listening to some else speak one of the things I have to remind myself not to do is to listen ahead. Not to shut out what is being said in favor of reaching my own conclusions before the other person is finished saying what they have to say. In my book Bear
