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When a person’s mental, physical or emotional health struggles and they find themselves in a state of depression, the first-line treatments are usually therapies and pharmaceutical drugs. The mental health industry is just that, an industry. Let’s call it what it is, it’s big business. What’s not talked about are how making positive lifestyle choices…

When walking down a city street, we create first impressions of people around us. It’s surprising how quickly we make determinations of people, given little or no supporting facts. What is it that determines a positive or negative viewpoint of strangers? Author Kendra Cherry describes going beyond a few attributional styles when describing “Person Perception”.…

In the mid to late 1970s, I served as a Navy helicopter rescue aircrewman with a squadron in San Diego. While shore-based, I wanted more action. Our squadron had a deployed unit supporting hydrographic charting missions in Panama. In 1977, I requested and deployed to HSL-31 detachment Bravo, or “DET B” as we knew it.…

There is a question in the application of servant leadership: Who benefits… the leader, the employee, both, or none? This article describes my perspectives of servant leadership along with research of the topic. My purpose for such a comparative lies in my belief that leadership skills depend on our willingness to perform a self assessment…

When you begin de-cluttering your life, you make room for better things. When the things in your life don’t serve you, it’s time to let it go. I wish I could tell you how many times my first-time clients arrived clinging onto the negative junk in their lives that never served them. Some old stuff…

What Coaching Is, What It Isn’t and How You Can Benefit. It doesn’t matter what path you’re on, coaching can make all the difference and take you to successively higher places in life. As a leadership and success coach, I help people overcome the obstacles that hold them back, identify new goals, and then take…

If Everything is important, then nothing is important” and you accomplish nothing. There’s a false perception that defines a busy person as being highly proficient. Being busy is good if we pick the right priorities… AND leave room for the other important parts of life like interpersonal relationships, and mental and physical health. When I…

Understanding what is true or not seems challenging in our current environment. In a fast-paced world, what we know as truth, and why we believe it, could very well be what I call trigger thoughts. We express our beliefs and behaviors through triggered reactions of prior experiences. What a Person Carries Inside Them We never…

Audio Version of this Article Words Matter. In this article, we’ll look at the power of word choice. Our words still have energy without being spoken. You and I talk to ourselves all day, every day, without ever having said a word. You’ll notice a series of questions ahead. Don’t just zip through them. Allow…

Working to stay positive amidst challenges can be tiring. Then, sometimes while progress appears, road bumps show up.  If you maintain your energy and keep your focus on the intended positive outcome, you will get there. Here are five tips to stay positive and on track: You Are Not Alone There isn’t a challenge (or…