Do you know someone addicted to DOPE? Are your addicted to DOPE? Drama Oriented Power Exchange, or DOPE is all around us, and we feed into it every time we share gossip or complain to someone who cannot help resolve an issue. The FDA has no people out there trying to regulate DOPE, the DEA […]
Tonight I watched Peyton Manning throw touchdown pass number 509. This was an impossible task, except for Peyton who did not recognize the term Impossible. Same thing for the man who held the record before Peyton the sky was the limit. Who makes an accomplishment impossible? We do. Who makes an accomplishment possible? We do.
We have spoken about gossip, haven’t we? If not we shall soon. Right now I want to discuss gossips next door neighbor: complaints. Complaints can have the same corrosive effect on our relationships as gossip. Does this mean we are to accept whatever comes our way without questioning? Of course not. What makes one complaint corrosive and
One of the first things we must come to realize as we step into an In-powered world and experience, is that we can no longer blame anyone else for our actions, our choices, our thoughts. As a result, we can not longer blame the boss, our parents, spouse, friends or the dog for our not achieving or
Let’s make this clear right off the bat; no one, no thing, no event, can ruin our day. Unless of course we allow that to happen. Certainly it is easier to blame others for how we are feeling, easier to blame events for creating our mental outlook, yet without exception events and other people can
It is time for that meeting you have been dreading. The scheduled speaker brings to mind an especially uncomfortable dental procedure without benefit of anesthetic. Not going will put your job in jeopardy, there is no way around the meeting, and standing up to shout “Oh, just shut up, well, that’s just a bad idea.
Have you ever found it difficult, if not impossible to accept that your life, your experiences, are occurring in exactly the right way, at exactly the right time, and that the outcome will be exactly perfect? Of course you have, we all have, but now here is another way to look at the same experience:
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Your cubicle mate, your boss, your running partner, your next door neighbor, anyone around you, has gotten a promotion, a raise, or special recognition for something they have done. You, on the other-hand, have been overlooked, ignored and unrecognized for your efforts. It might be hard to join them in celebration, and if you do join
For three days this past week it seemed there was not an electronic device I could safely touch. E-mails did not go out as I thought, websites were unavailable, passwords ceased to work, I am pretty sure when I walked past my computer it said “don’t touch me”. Am I paranoid or just
I’ve got an idea! This is the greatest idea ever, it will save the company (or our family, or our program) so much!, then you present the idea and it falls on deaf ears, it is like we are speaking a dead language. How deflating that can be, and often we respond with anger, or
