Through the Sharing of Stories
It is Not ALL About You. I think this one was a big aha moment for both Dan and I when I said it. So often we use all, always, never when talking about something and rarely do these adverbs apply especially when discussing behaviors and events. But we like to use them for emphasis. […]
If I was the person I am today the day I got married, I am not sure I would have gotten married. But, I don’t want a Divorce. That doesn’t mean that I don’t love Dan to pieces and enjoy our life together but it does mean that I don’t know that I agree with […]
I was at a training a few weeks ago and the instructor used these two words, context and calibrated, when we were discussing connecting meaning together. This blew my mind! Early this year I wrote about Assessment Tests and my general disliking of them. Context and calibrated connected the dots for me as to why […]
Campaigning About You? Is it possible for candidates to run a campaign without talking (I use this term lightly) about why I shouldn’t vote for the other? Can we envision a new way to campaign? Could any of us really “sell” ourselves without any regard to another? In the fall of 1976, I was a […]
Yep, if you are the one begging. Know why? It is because you didn’t have the courage to start a conversation. You let the fear of thinking that the other person would never give you what you want, so you take it. Wrong, just wrong. You would probably be the first person going off if […]
Listening is defined as making an effort to hear something or being alert and ready to hear something. Seems pretty simple, but why do so many people lack listening skills? One reason could be that everyone just wants to be heard, and therefore everyone is talking, so that leaves no one left to listen to […]
No, this isn’t a question for “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader,” but rather a question asked to my aunt by another adult (many other adults). My lovely aunt spent nearly 30 years as a bartender in Key West. I am grateful that I have had the privilege of spending long periods of time […]
