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How Important Is It To Think Critically Before Making Up Your Mind?

October 4, 2010

I was thinking about what I wanted to write about next on my blog, and it occurred to me that thinking critically is certainly something worth writing about. Creative thinking is also important, no doubt, because it leads to innovation, small or large steps forward towards a desired result.  But what about critical thinking? When […]

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61st Birthday – Looking Back, Looking Forward

September 27, 2010

It’s not just the beginning of a new year in my life today. It also happens to be the first day of my newly formatted Healthy Communication Workshop, part of orientation week for incoming freshmen at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.

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Sometimes the BEST Communication Technique is NO Technique At All!

September 20, 2010

I had already been speaking professionally for a number of years at that point. I had my own style. I had my own way with words. I had confidence and strong material. But when they told us what the judges were looking for, I set aside everything I knew about speaking, and tried to do it their way. The result?

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If All You Know Is What You Don’t Want…

September 13, 2010

Because if there is a choice to be made between the difficulty of life and the desire for fulfillment, knowing what you do want can bring you back into the light, where you’ll find the better angels of human nature, including yours,

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Best Way To Handle Yourself In A Conflict Situation

September 6, 2010

Knowing what you want, making the distinction between what someone is doing and what you think about what they’re doing, and then knowing the principles of good communication, you can engage with people in a positive instead of a negative way

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Dealing With Shame: What’s Right About Feeling Wrong

August 30, 2010

Wrong is nature’s way of telling you that a course correction is in order. The feeling of doing something wrong is a feedback mechanism, a way of signaling to you that you have other choices, new choices, that you can make. You’ll stop feeling shame when you turn anger at yourself or the other person into forgiveness, and then turn the guilt into a commitment.

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iPhone 4, Hands On Review

August 23, 2010

There’s been a lot of fuss made about an antenna problem with the phone, but it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. One can only assume that the media had some other agenda, same with Consumer Reports. It’s a shame, but it doesn’t much matter, the phone speaks for itself.

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On Giving Your Word and Choosing Your Words

August 16, 2010

I know that your future depends not just on what words you use to describe your experience and ideas, but on you giving your word, and keeping your word. And today is always the beginning of tomorrow.

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