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How often have you felt the need to be right? It could be the time you felt slighted in a conversation. Perhaps it's the time that someone's "attitude" just struck you the wrong way. It is easy to get trapped in our need to be right, we all want to win and we will go...

Just a thought that crossed my mind this morning. We communicate with others as though we all share the same map--and the same world--which causes conflict and collisions. In 1931 Alfred Korzybski a Polish American scientist and philosopher coined the phrase "the map...

I don’t know why, but giving up on ourselves seems to be so easy. We all struggle with it. I don’t care if you are the coach that makes a million dollars a year or the coach that is just barely getting by. We all struggle with the idea that it might just be easier to...

We all experience loss in our lives and so often we soldier on carrying and burying the pain and sadness inside where no one can see. We as a society are taught to be stoic and strong. So we do. We look with pity on those who can't seem to pull it together. Especially...

Do we reach the age of wisdom at a specified time? We seem to spend the early years, the first 50 or so, gathering information or knowledge believing that we are becoming wise. That in coveting more and more information we are one an expansive journey of...

When I moved to a new place I sometimes struggled to orientate myself. How to find something and how to get there are daily decisions. In South Carolina, they hid stores and places behind greenery and walls, and it is prettier to not see store upon...

We begin our life like an innocent sponge, ready to soak up all the world has to teach us, with no filter. How we speak to our children becomes part of their inner voice. We lift them up to spread their wings or we dishearten them, leaving...