On Finding Confidence

When it comes to con­fi­dence, no one has an answer that works for every­one. For some the issue becomes being more self-com­­pas­­sion­ate. Oth­ers may see it as a deep­er access to faith. Some may need to explore the many psy­cho­log­i­cal things that have hap­pened to them that cre­at­ed neg­a­tive con­di­tion­ing — aka their voic­es of… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Find­ing Confidence

Not On Your Life

It has been great in the last few days to get back into writ­ing here. I have been so intense­ly involved in putting up the “Reach­ing Out to Build Trust” pages at teamtrustsurvey.com that this blog has been all too neglect­ed this spring. Thanks to all of you who have for­ward­ed com­ments and feed­back about… Con­tin­ue read­ing Not On Your Life

On Expectations

What we know is that our expec­ta­tions of one anoth­er strong­ly influ­ence whether or not we feel con­nect­ed or dis­tant in a work­ing rela­tion­ship. One stream of log­ic around giv­ing and receiv­ing feed­back, espe­cial­ly of the “per­for­mance” kind, is that it always makes sense to first clar­i­fy and express those expec­ta­tions — espe­cial­ly hid­den or… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Expec­ta­tions

Inner Wildness

There may be all too lit­tle true wilder­ness left on our shrink­ing globe, but there is still plen­ty of wilder­ness with­in.  The path toward lead­ing suc­cess­ful­ly is all too often mea­sured in exter­nal out­comes, but the truth we know is that it is also mea­sured in “incomes,” the degree to which a human being is… Con­tin­ue read­ing Inner Wild­ness