Nov 7, 2019 | Happiness Fulfillment & Self Esteem
A client recently told me that he was afraid to make a big life move because it could lead to him being miserable. He said this as if he had no choice in the matter. I realized that most of us feel this way. We are afraid to take risks because what if they don’t go...
Oct 24, 2019 | Happiness Fulfillment & Self Esteem, Parenting
Last week, I wrote a blog post about how we’ve pushed our children to find success so that they can find happiness in life. It made me realize that most of us are on a backward happiness hunt. We’ve tied our happiness to success: financial success, material success, a...
Oct 10, 2019 | Happiness Fulfillment & Self Esteem, Stress Relief
One of my clients was telling me how some of his loved ones were trying to make him feel better by telling him how much worse others had it. He said, “I know they were trying to make me feel better, but that’s a pretty low bar. I might as well go around saying, ‘At...
Oct 3, 2019 | Happiness Fulfillment & Self Esteem
Recently, I decided to take a few weeks off from alcohol. I typically drink three to four glasses of wine a week. Most people would say that isn’t much, but it was starting to feel like too much to me. My energy was low, I didn’t sleep or feel good after I drank, and...
Sep 26, 2019 | Leadership & Career Development |
As part of the work I do, I lead anti-sexual harassment seminars for a variety of companies around the country. From July 1st until the end of October, I will do about thirty of these seminars. People often ask me about the most common situations that arise in...
Sep 12, 2019 | Leadership & Career Development, Relationships
In my work with couples and with business relationships, there is a consistent theme around the struggle with expressing our feelings and desires in relationships in a way that won’t lead to fighting or discord. So many of the people I work with tell me they avoid...
