I’ve been slowly savouring Larry Ackerman’s newest book, The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions For Finding Your Purpose and Place In The World, for the last 2 weeks. I’m hooked. But, then that’s not surprizing I’ve been interested in the question of Life Purpose for decades. Sometimes I think I emerged from the womb…
Even more appreciations for folks who zinged or pinged my life in a positive way in 2006. In no particular order, they are: Joan Hitlin, energy coach and mojotivity maven, for teaching me how to manage the emotional aspects of pain and for being the most extraverted introvert I know. Sidney Courtice, spiritiual…
Career transitions are rarely smooth or pain free. Especially when we are making a BIG shift. A 180-degree change in our lives. Yet, somehow we have the illusion that we can be in control. HA! Even when we are at our best we have little real control. So, why then do we believe we "SHOULD"…
Here are my appreciations for other folks who zinged or pinged my life in a positive way in 2006. In no particular order, they are: Regina Lynn, sex tech Blogger at Wired, for continually and passionately reminding us that there’s nothing wrong with enjoying sex, or enjoying talking about it, and for encouraging and…
I’ve been mulling a post for a week. Wanted to write about the top 10 people who had the biggest impact on my life in 2006. Seemed like a good idea …. till I tried to write. Then it felt crappy. Like "how can I leave so and so out?" So, I didn’t write a…
Yet another way to raise your Blog’s Buzz Factor is to make use of Trackbacks. What are Trackbacks? Here’s the introduction to "What is a Trackback" from Typepad’s help documentation: "In a nutshell, TrackBack was designed to provide a method of notification between websites: it is a method of person A saying to person B,…
It’s been said that to be a great writer one needs to … read a lot … and write a lot. The same is true for Blogging … that special form of writing that ‘hangs it all out there’. And, to create traffic to your Blog. Don’t just read Blogs COMMENT on them. Make the…
Seth Godin makes a passionate argument for being marketable not electable. Seth suggests that to get a market or, more correctly, to get market share, we must be remarkable. And, to be remarkable we need to be among other things … well, us. That means some people — maybe a swack of them — are…
March 8th, 1985 I came within 5 minutes of dying. All because my job and my work environment had become increasingly toxic to me. Over the course of the prededing 3 years I had been hospitalized 3 times for clinical depression — and, suicide attempts. Over those same 3 years I had read countless books…
The common issue in my coaching work this week has been "writers block". Now, the interesting thing is that you don’t have to be making a living as a writer, or trying to make a living as a writer to suffer from Writers Block. You just have to be in that messy situation where you…