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Life coaches and experts blog and share their wisdom on how to live a happy, fulfilled life. They write about self management and parenting advice, career and how to succeed articles as well as answer questions from you about how to best navigate your life.
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Rosemary and Phyllis
Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D. and Rosemary Lichtman, Ph.D.have over 40 years of collective private practice experience as psychotherapists.
As family relationship experts, they have developed a 4-step model for managing change. Whether you're coping with stress, acting-out teenagers, aging parents, boomerang kids or difficult daughters-in-law, they offer solutions that will make family rifts disappear.
As family relationship experts, they have developed a 4-step model for managing change. Whether you're coping with stress, acting-out teenagers, aging parents, boomerang kids or difficult daughters-in-law, they offer solutions that will make family rifts disappear.
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Love is More Than a Four Letter Word Featured
Long before it was a song, the saying was a part of our conversation - and it's especially appropriate during February, the month of love: Love makes the world go round. With all this whirling, love can make you feel off balance and dizzy. Sometimes it's tricky to keep your personal world turning without having it spin totally out of control. Alt ...Feb 14 -
What Bhutan Can Teach Us About Happiness
It has been over ten years since I retired from my full-time practice and spent three months doing volunteer work and traveling in Southeast Asia. One of the best parts of my trip was spending time in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. It was their monarch who defined the concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH) to measure quality of life. An ...Jan 21 -
What to Do When Boomerang Kids Move Back Home
Not since the Great Depression have so many fledgling adults moved into the empty nest with mom and dad. This cyclical trend has accelerated along with the economic crisis. Faced with school loans, debts or no job, it makes sense to head for home - with its emotional security and financial safety net. If you're a member of the Sandwich Generation ...Nov 06 -
Sexting and Parenting in the Digital Age
Now that your teens are in school again, are you concerned they're back to risky behaviors on the Internet - sending inappropriate sexual pictures and texts on their cell phones? If so, you're not alone. A recent survey of parents with children between the ages of 10 and 18 found their number one worry was not school shootings, bullying or grades ...Sep 30 -
The New Normal after Separation
Do you want to know an unexpected finding from the Framingham Heart Study, a research project that has been conducted over six decades? Happiness is contagious and the secret may very well be in our connections. Social relationships correlate positively with happiness. That is, if your friend is happy, that increases your probability by ...Aug 28 -
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Nancy Whelan,PT
Nancy Whelan,PT is the owner and director of the West Palm Beach Physical Therapy Center. She has 31 years of experience in the practice of Physical Therapy.
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How to Strengthen Creaky Knees Featured
Do you notice when you squat to pick something up or get up from a low chair your knees creak or grind? Or maybe when you go down stairs, one of your knees feels like buckling? Our knees take a lot of abuse from years of carrying our weight. For every 1 pound, we're putting 4 pounds of pressure on our knees. For example, 20 pounds of ex ...Jan 17 -
Your Health is Your Choice
"Every day, each of us makes a multitude of choices that will impact the quality of our lives. Some of these choices are minor and will only affect the next few minutes, hours or days, while others will completely change the direction of our lives. Some choices are easy to make, some are more difficult. Some will lead us straight to ...Jan 16 -
Do you have tennis elbow and don't play tennis?
Elbow pain keeping you from participating in your everyday routine or even leisure activities? Research has shown that over 3% of the general population suffers from some type of elbow pain. The most common elbow pathology is tennis elbow or lateral epicondylitis, which is an inflammation of the extensor tendons of the wrist and fingers. Tennis elb ...Jan 02 -
Are you slouching? Stretches and Exercises to Help with Pain and Posture
A recent study published in the European Heart Journal cited 8.5 hours as the average time most working Americans sit each day! Over that period of time, we start to slouch. This affects the low back because we are sitting in the reverse of the natural curve of our back. It affects our neck because we are encouraging the dreaded dowager's h ...Nov 03 -
Garlic's surprising health benefits
Did you know garlic is one of the most powerful antibiotics on the planet? Today, researchers are finding that garlic is the strongest health enhancing food we can consume on a daily basis, without other side effects, other than smelling like garlic. One of garlic's most potent healthy benefits includes its ability to improve the body's immune c ...Oct 12 -
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The Vocational Coach- Craig Nathanson
I want you to know that I believe that your middle years and beyond can be the best one's yet- It's up to you now to re-assess where your work life is at?
Many organizations ignore the developmental needs of those in mid-life, continuing to focus on productivity, pay and efficiency. In mid-life, those things take second fiddle to meaning and fulfillment, something you'll never find at the top of the list for these organizations. You are ready to live not retire or die in mid-life. Contrary to popular belief, you are ready and willing to learn more, experience more and do more of what's important to you.
Many organizations ignore the developmental needs of those in mid-life, continuing to focus on productivity, pay and efficiency. In mid-life, those things take second fiddle to meaning and fulfillment, something you'll never find at the top of the list for these organizations. You are ready to live not retire or die in mid-life. Contrary to popular belief, you are ready and willing to learn more, experience more and do more of what's important to you.
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What resumes can’t do and how to tell a better story! Featured
What resumes can’t do Let's face it, resumes are boring to write and worse to read. These days, most employers have software to read and prioritize resumes through the use of keywords. The goal of your resume is achieved if it brought you to an interview. But, there are many things you can’t express in your resume. Resumes on their own have no pe ...Feb 17 -
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Marshall Goldsmith
The American Management Association named Dr. Marshall Goldsmith as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years. Dr. Goldsmith is one of a select few advisors who have been asked to work with over 100 major CEOs and their management teams. He is co-founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners, a network of top-level executive coaches. He served as a member of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years.
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith's 24 books include What Got You Here Won't Get You There - a New York Times best-seller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and Harold Longman Award winner for Business Book of the Year. His recent book Succession: Are You Ready?- is the newest edition to the Harvard Business 'Memo to the CEO' series. Marshall's latest book is Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and How to Get It Back When You Lose It!
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith's 24 books include What Got You Here Won't Get You There - a New York Times best-seller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and Harold Longman Award winner for Business Book of the Year. His recent book Succession: Are You Ready?- is the newest edition to the Harvard Business 'Memo to the CEO' series. Marshall's latest book is Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and How to Get It Back When You Lose It!
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Leaders, Use One Question to Become More Effective
What prevents us from making the changes we know will make us more effective leaders? Great question. I may be the only executive educator who actually measures whether the participants in my leadership development courses actually do what I teach--and then measures if they are seen as becoming more effective leaders. At the end of my sessions, I ...Dec 17 -
Leaders, Use One Question to Become More Effective
What prevents us from making the changes we know will make us more effective leaders? Great question. I may be the only executive educator who actually measures whether the participants in my leadership development courses actually do what I teach--and then measures if they are seen as becoming more effective leaders. At the end of my se ...Sep 18 -
Extraordinary Leadership Starts with Feedback
General Mills CEO Steve Sanger once told 90 of his colleagues: 'Last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports. I just reviewed my 360-degree feedback. I have been working on becoming a better coach for the past year or so. I'm still not doing quite as well as I want, but I'm getting a lot better. ...Aug 20 -
Peak Performers, How Much Do You Contribute?
When achievement is the result of a team effort - not just individual performance - we tend to overestimate our contribution to the final victory. I once asked three business partners to estimate their individual contribution to the partnership's profits. Not surprisingly, the sum of their answers amounted to more than 150% of the actual profit! ...Jul 25 -
Two sides of the coin - Talent Acquistion and Becoming a Peak Performer
Editor's Note: This is a story about how to retain peak performers and how to become a peak performer. Retaining a peak performer: You've invested a lot in your top talent. You certainly don't want to see that investment go down the drain as they head over to the competition! Here are some questions to unearth wha ...Jul 13 -
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Bud Bilanich
Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy, helps individuals, teams and entire organization succeed through applying their common sense. He is an executive coach, motivational speaker, author and blogger. Bilanich is Harvard educated but has a no nonsense approach to his work to goes back to his roots in the steel country of Western Pennsylvania.
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Treat Failure as the Tuition You Pay to Succeed Featured
Failure truly is the tuition you pay for career success. Katina Solomon at OnLineCollege.org has created a list of "50 Famously Successful People Who Failed at First." These people come from all walks of life. But they shared one characteristic in common - the commitment to their own career success. Katina has graciously allowed me post her list ...Jan 10 -
10 principles of Cowboy Ethics
Each year in January, the National Western Stock Show comes to Denver and takes over the town. The Stock Show is a Denver tradition. It features the highest paying indoor rodeo in the world. Farmers and ranchers from all over the Midwest and West come to view the exhibits and see the latest in farm machinery and veterinary technology. ...Nov 01 -
Educating Young Folks on How to Dress for Work
Recently, the Ask Amy column in The Denver Post had an interesting piece from a small business owner. Here is what this small business owner had to say. Dear Amy: I am trying to get through to people and teenagers how to apply for jobs and how to keep the job once they get it.I own a small deli and grocery store, and I have tried to hi ...Oct 06 -
Focus on Improving Me and Not Criticizing Others
"Give so much time to building your self confidence and improving yourself that you have not time to criticize others." Abraham Maslow I know that I have a lot to learn. There are many things about me I can improve. I?m just guessing here, but I bet that?s true for you too. That?s why I choose to focus on improving me rather than criti ...Jun 17 -
Knowing Yourself to Understand Others
There are quite a few good tests to find your hidden motivations. I am most familiar with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the DISC. Both of these are based on Jungian psychology and provide you with an easy to understand framework for getting to know yourself. I believe that we can all benefit from gaining a better understandi ...Oct 11 -
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