Holding a grudge is hard work and stressful. Forgiveness lightens your load and allows you to put your energies where it really matters. There is growing research about the negative health effects of prolonged anger and bitterness. Ruminating on what others have said to you or have done to you is not healthy in the…
The tide has shifted and most don’t know it. For decades the US had the largest and most successful middle class in the world. That was in the 20th century but not now. To oversimplify things, the globalization of the our “local” economy has forced the US worker to compete head to head with workers…
A lot of what we do in work and life is truly meaningless. We do these meaningless things because we think that we should do them or we think that we have to do them. But, is this really true? What if we just said no to the useless things and did what really mattered?…
This is how comedian George Burns described a small town in the mid west that he disliked. It also describes how I feel about the current state of the economy. If you are like me, you are getting tired of this recession or “ice age” as I have been describing it. It seems that most…
Have you ever confronted a barrier or a problem that stopped you from going forward with your goals and objectives? Maybe it was because you did not have the support from your friends or family. Or, the task itself just seemed insurmountable. Whatever the barrier, it was big enough to stop you in your tracks.…