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Upon winning the Master’s Golf Tournament, Bubba Watson  said, ” I don’t want to be famous or anything like that.  I just want to be me and play golf.” What a great lesson!

The Future of Brain Transplants By Peter Tyson Posted 08.26.10 NOVA scienceNOW Will we ever grow replacement brains or do whole-brain transplants?   Need a new body part? Tissue engineers are now growing human bladders, lungs, and other organs in the lab with the hope that, someday soon, such organs may replace diseased organs in [...]

Growing older seems to me to work best when it can be done with grace.  Be better at listening.  Allow the other person to articulate. Listen well, understand, offer brief  responses.  Do not, never, go on and on!  How do you know?  Watch them as you talk.  If they are looking around, seeing what other [...]

We all want to be successful, don’t we?  We wantr to be good at our work, and get paid for doing it well.  We want to be successful in friendships, in games and sports, in our hobbies, in our relationships and marriages.  So HOW do we do it? We are each unique, even identical twins [...]

Have you been asked, “How have you been?”  In any given moment we are in some state of being.  If the answer we give is “fine” it says we are being ourselves in our unique ways. What is interesting about being, is that in the very next moment, we are becoming!  So meditating on that, [...]

I just came out of a one-and-a-half-day conference about which you could say we were tasked with identifying a creative mission for a new Institute. Being the Psychologist I am (though not my role in this meeting) I find myself evaluating the unknown guests. Some, I call them extroverts, jump right up and right in because they know [...]

In my consulting practice, I have mostly had new startups, small businesses, and non- profit corporations as clients.  While I didn’t always know it at the time, that was by choice! The big corporations don’t feel comfortable to me. Maybe there is too much emphasis on profits, or in some other way I feel out of [...]

When everything is going right and you are productive, you are probably in your “sweet spot”.  Some call this “the zone” or “flow”.  Sweet spots have three components, your strengths, your passion, and your resources.  One way to get in touch with a sweet spot from your past is to think of a time when [...]

The first step is to look for it!  You want to be good at something, so where do you start?  You start “at home”, with yourself.  You find success by being a good person, putting good effort and energy to the things you love to do, and enjoying yourself in doing it. You also watch the [...]

I just had a super week.  A friend and I have been talking about a personal and business “sweet spot”.  It’s when our strengths, resources, and passion for work come together, and you can sort out the priorities and not get bogged down by stuff beyond your control.  In fact, when you are in this place, you [...]