Brutal Honesty Necessary?

Brutal Honesty Do you ALWAYS have to share your opinion? Remember, it is only your opinion- not fact. AND, conversely, if someone shares THEIRS, it is ONLY an opinion. Don’t give it more power than it deserves by getting sad or angry. Do you have to be brutally honest? Why would you EVER have to […]

Hot Button

What’s your “hot button”? That’s the thing that someone can say or do that triggers the old part your human brain making you feel unsafe, as though your were personally being attacked. Your reaction is immediate. Notice the word: “re-action”. It’s something that you’ve done many times before, rather than using the thinking and reasoning […]

Is Anger Eating Your Heart Out?

You’ve heard many expression that equate your emotions with parts of your body. Recent research supports what we “knew in our hearts”:  there is a measurable effect of your emotions on your health. Emotional management therefore, is a necessity if you want to improve or maintain physical health! What emotion is most damaging to your […]

Can You Be Honest?

I have some of my most honest conversations with women I’ve met in a just by chance meeting in a public ladies room. I don’t know what it is, but there’s something about the anonymity of talking to a stranger who you can reasonably assume you will never meet again. Oscar Wilde said that …”give […]

Heart-centered Entrepreneurs: Are you suffering from Compassion Overload?

If your business is about helping others, it’s important to take of yourself first. Heart centered entrepreneurs often struggle with wanting to help their clients so much that they can suffer from stress and eventual burnout. Many heart centered entrepreneurs care so much about their clients that they end up giving free advice, rather than […]

Brutal Honesty… and your health

Why would anyone need to use “brutal honesty”? Essentially, you are stating your opinion about an event, a subject or a person. Do you want to hurt someone with your opinion? Do you really think that a hurtful statement will change another person, or improve your relationship? Remember, once those words are said, they can […]

Tell Your Truth: as long as you don’t hurt with it…

People tell white lies because they are not comfortable with their communication. Notice how it doesn’t feel good when you lie? Again, your body will give you a “gut feeling” that something isn’t right. And it isn’t. Do you tell white lies so as not to hurt another person’s feelings?  You can be like a […]

Steve Jobs + The Enneagram

Understanding other people’s thought process, emotions and ensuing behaviors is a highly valuable skill. Whether you are an entrepreneur, or just wanting to relate better to others in personal relationships, The Enneagram is an amazing tool. In business, I know that many people use the Myers-Briggs test, but my preference is for the Enneagram. I […]

Want To Live A Longer Life?

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.” Khalil Gibran Gibran wrote the 2nd most popular book of all time (The Bible is 1st): “The Prophet”.  It expresses profound, beautiful sentiment that applies to any sentient being!  From Dean Ornish’s book, “Love and Survival”,  to the multitudinous […]

Mistakes In Business & Life

I thought I was wrong once, but I made a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes. The question is, how do you deal with a mistake in business without compounding it’s effect? Yesterday, my auto-responder went out with |*Merge* | tag showing instead of the recipients name. Embarrassing? YOU BET! I wish I would have waited to […]