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Colin Kaepernick Holds Up the Mirror. Are We Seeing Clearly?
The contents of this newsletter first appeared on Your Tango. 7 Tips Sparked by #7 A current popular news story is that Colin Kaepernick, an American football player didn’t stand for the national anthem at a recent game. He said that he doesn’t support the oppression and poor treatment of people of color in this country, or words…
The Details of Life and Death
The contents of this newsletter first appeared on Your Tango yesterday. Simple, immediate and free tips for peace of mind Prince died without leaving a will. Imagine being one of his loved ones, grieving while having to sort through so much information. An enormous amount of time, energy and money will likely be expended by his family, and…
Feedback: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
The contents of this newsletter first appeared on Your Tango a couple of days ago. What a 1960s Western Has to Do With Giving and Receiving Feedback Feedback is a hot topic in the modern world of coaching, counseling and conscious communication. We want to be open to feedback and to give it effectively yet we don’t…
Are Categories Killing Your Curiosity?
The contents of this newsletter first appeared on Your Tango. December’s newsletter got picked up from YT for syndication on Ravishly How would you describe yourself? We have some sense of our traits and, more often than not, these traits were given to us as youngsters. “Suzy is our brainy child.” A parent might say, or “Jimmy…
Revolutionize Your Resolutions
The contents of this newsletter first appeared on Your Tango. Have you made your resolutions for 2016? Let’s get a fresh take on this age-old tradition – especially if you don’t want to make any resolutions. How many times have you started out a new year strong, with better habits and goals and before you know…
Staying Safe
I wrote an article for Your Tango that they entitled: How to Feel Safe When The Violence in The World Terrifies You and it was posted right away to YT’s home and Experts pages. I feel happy and honored! They deleted what I think are a couple of key points in their editing process so below is the…
I Voted
It is voting day in the USA and I see people out and about wearing their ‘I Voted’ stickers. My local ballot appeared very unexciting with its three little items – one for town council and two for high school union members. I knew nothing about any of it and that didn’t put me off…
Be Response-able – and Step on It!
Do you want to clearly know what’s true for you? What the best decisions are for you to take? Do you want to live in alignment with who you really are? To feel free, powerful and expressing your full creative self? If so, then you want to be response-able, to have the ability to respond…
The Syndrome and the Cure
They say if you spot it, you got it and I’ve had it and spotted it in others. While I’m not completely cured, I have greatly reduced my symptoms and outbreaks and now live in much greater harmony with this elusive syndrome. I decided to call it Why Aren’t You Me? or WAYM for short. To assist you…
I want to…and I don’t want to
This month in the U.S. we have the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day so I will draw inspiration from both to speak about commitment. I was visiting my parents in late December and my father was watching a game of American football. A man had the ball and was running toward the end zone clearly…
Bringing the Light
The word light has more than one meaning from illumination to matters of weight. It can be a noun, verb or adjective and at dictionary.com, there are 44 definitions and expressions for light. Historically, the sun was worshipped as a god and was/is interconnected with life including the growing of living things to feed living…
This is it!
What does the phrase This is it! mean to you? For me it stands out as the title of a movie released 5 years ago. A movie about Michael Jackson and the rehearsals for a tour he was about to undertake. As we know, he died before it started. The powerful reminder I took away from that…