Mar 26, 2021

If you are trying to make a difference – with whatever you are doing at this moment in your life – do you see age as an advantage or a disadvantage?

Today, in our western society, a common belief is that as we age, our opportunities to make a difference diminish.

Often we rationalize our inertia. We feel...

Mar 19, 2021

Are negative emotions always bad? What are negative emotions? When something stirs us up in an unpleasant way, we can call it a negative emotion. We feel sad, fearful, mad.

Let's think about situations that cause us to be fearful. Usually, it's something that can put us in danger.

I remember many years ago, in a group...

Mar 12, 2021

Take a minute to do this awareness exercise:

Look around the room and count how many red objects you see.

Write that number down.

Now that you know how many red objects you saw, do you have any idea how many blue objects were there?

If you are like most of us, you didn’t notice the blue objects.

So look around one...

Mar 5, 2021

One of my favorite books is Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search For Meaning.”

It’s a powerful book, divided into two parts.

Part One is an account of Frankl’s experiences as a prisoner in several concentration camps during the Second World War. His recollections are sad, moving, and inspiring.

One of my favorite...

Mar 5, 2021

Why do we spend so long to decide about a name?

The name of our children, the name of our pets, the name of our business.

I spent a long time thinking about how to name this podcast.

If you followed me from the inception of this show, you know that I started as the “Self-Employed Professional Making a Difference”...