Category Archives: General Interest
Got Education? How to Remedy Today’s Failed American Dream (core materials covered in my seminars and workshops)
(Core materials covered in my seminars and workshops) Today, 33% of all public high school students are dropping out. Of those who graduate high school, upwards of 70% desire to obtain a college degree. The majority do not. And of those who acquire a college degree—of deflated value—within five to ten years 70% are no [...]
Critical Creative Intutive Thinking: How to Achieve in Today’s Volatile World
We are being deceived all the time by advertisers, food companies, the medical industry, business, even by educators, and, dare I say, our parents? Yes, but in most cases they don’t know it or do it with malice because what they learned as “the” way is just “a” way that was passed on to them [...]
Where are the Clues to Your Bigger and Better Life?
How do you know what your calling in life is? Some people know very early in life. Mozart wrote his first symphony at the age of eight; Paul McCartney wrote his first song when he was fourteen. So some have it figured out quite early. Not all of us do. Or sometimes we know and [...]
Career Coaching: Losing Your Job is Not So Unlikely In Today’s Age of Turbulence
We live in a world of capitalistic creative destruction. The very nature of capitalism relies on competition and coming up with the latest, greatest, best product and or service going. Or that which makes previous products and services obsolete. How long has this been going on? Much longer than the title of this article implies. [...]
Coaching Values is a Great Tool for Achievement
To give you a feel for what it is like to be coached, for most have not been there, the following is an excerpt (slightly edited) from Co-Active Coaching (2nd ed.) © 2007 by Laura Whitworth, Karen Kimsey-House, Henry Kimsey-House, and Phillip Sandahl. It will lead you through a coaching exercise on values. Values are [...]
Assistance is Critical Before That First Career and While Changing Careers
Career transition assistance is critical, especially if you didn’t get it right the first time. This is not a knock on those who are looking to change careers but rather on the educational system that dispenses knowledge but rarely if ever works closely, carefully, knowledgably, mostly listening to the student’s needs in the first place [...]
Divorce, Liberalism, & Economic Realities: Why the Education Catastrophe
Every 26 seconds another student drops out of public high school which translates to nearly one-third of all public high school students dropping out. It’s so bad that Colon Powell and his wife are heading a national movement in an attempt to reverse the trend. But even of those two-thirds who graduate, the picture doesn’t [...]
Loss, Suffering, and Sorrow: Time for Gaining Strength and Insight
So you’ve hit bottom. You’ve tried everything and worked yourself to the bone trying to make things right. But no matter what you just can’t get off the ground. You’re stuck. So let’s talk about it because few will. There’s so much talk out there today about being positive that people forget that being sad [...]
Don’t Do More Than You Need to Succeed: Your Anxiety Will Tell You When Enough is Enough
We’ve all heard the terms of praise for the hard worker, the achiever: go getter; dynamo; spark plug; workhorse; mover and shaker; eager beaver. But as you work hard and often, how much is too much? And in doing too much, do you really gain greater opportunity or lose ground? Sometimes, in our enthusiasm to [...]
The Power of Negative Thinking: Your Successful Attitude is Arbitrary and Fleeting
Today’s popular appeal in the self-improvement industry is to the power of positive thinking. As a matter of fact, Dr. Peale’s book The Power of Positive Thinking, the main encourager of this phenomenon, will help you learn: How to eliminate that most devastating handicap — self doubt How to free yourself from worry, stress and [...]
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