Last night I watched the movie “The Pursuit of Happyness” with Will Smith and his son Jaden. The movie is based on a real life story of Chris Gardner (played by Will Smith) who went from down and out to multi-millionaire. What struck me most about the story was Chris’ unflappable determination, perseverence, and upbeat […]
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I’m not a huge Sci-Fi fan. I was as a kid, but outgrew it pretty early on. Yet, over the last few years I have watched all 3 of the movies in The Matrix Trilogy. While the movies tend to confuse me on some level and have far too much gunfire for my nerves, I
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This Saturday at a meditation gathering I was reminded of a beautiful image I first heard when I started practicing with the meditation tapes recommended in Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book “Full Catastrophe Living”. Imagine a body of water. At the surface can be waves and ripples and churning water. In the case of the ocean there
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Is there a goal you really want to achieve? Something you really want? If so, are you 100% committed and focused on the goal or is there a wishy-washy factor in there? You know the drill — you keep moving forward toward your goal but never seem to get there for whatever reason or you
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I like reading Kathy Sierra’s Creating Passionate Users blog on a regular basis. While she is usually talking from a business and customer experience perspective, I thought her recent post called Why “duh”… isn’t has some serious application to the life and business coaching work I do and thus the content of this blog. Some
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