Are You A Transformational Leader?

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What is a transformational leader? A leader who transforms communities and organizations from one culture to another, such as the industrial age to the information age. A transformational leader is someone who is transforming a co-dependent family into one of healthy relationships or someone who has transformed herself from one state of being to another. [...]

Are You Someone Who Can Acknowledge Others?

Acknowledging others

In the work place, we have always expected our boss to acknowledge that he appreciates what we have done. Our children are always asking for our approval. All of us desire to be noticed and applauded for our efforts and accomplishments. Yet, as human beings, we are not very adept at giving or receiving loving [...]

Are You In or Out of Balance?

Balance

Bringing harmony and peace into our lives is something that all human beings are striving for, often looking in vain outside of ourselves to find it. But finding inner peace requires that we understand ourselves and take a look at our needs and whether they are being met. We are made up of four need [...]

Are You Someone Who Thinks You Deserve to Get What You Want?

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Are you a human being, or a human doing? Most of us go through our lives doing. We do the job, the marriage, and the kids.  We just keep doing the doing like mindless creatures. Extreme doers may be called workaholics. Those who can’t say no and double book themselves are trying to do more [...]

Are You Someone Who Lives in the Comfort Zone?

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The comfort zone is a range of behavior that is habitual and is made up of our programmed beliefs and attitudes. As we react to our environment, we can choose how we are going to respond. When there is no longer a choice, we are acting out of habit and we are living in the [...]

What Is Your Behavioral Style?

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Since the time of the ancient Greeks, definitive and consistent behavioral styles have been recognized in human behavior. Hippocrates noticed that each individual possessed patterns of behavior that he categorized into four personality types. Each style had its own strengths and weakness and each was necessary for the orchestration of socialized living. Behavioral styles begin [...]

Are You Prepared to be a Paradigm Shifter?

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A young woman was about to fix her first Christmas dinner and she remembered that her mother always trimmed the ends off the ham before she baked it. So she too trimmed the ends off the ham and baked it, but later questioned her mother as to why she did that. Her mother responded, “I [...]

Be Thankful

With Thanksgiving less than a week away, I thought it good to post about this season of thankfulness.  Here is a poem I found by an unknown author that sums up my feelings. Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire. If you did, what would there be to look forward to? Be [...]

Johanne’s Recommended Reading-Part 1 Theory

Here is collection of books that I highly recommend for anyone on a journey towards self-discovery.  I am dividing this list up into a 10 part series because of the sheer number of books that are available on this topic.  I have personally read each book on this list and have used it either to further [...]

An Introduction to Experiential Training

“Tell me…I will forget” “Show me…I may remember” “Involve me…I will understand” Like this proverb suggests we learn better when we are involved in an active experience.  Experiential training can take on many strategies according to Dr. Sivasailam Thiagarajan, Ph. D.  These strategies are designed and deployed when different outcomes are required. This is not [...]