Category Archives: Getting Along with Each Other

A Feeling of Importance

Les Giblin talks about how everyone wants to feel important in How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing With People. In a segment of the book about why employees often feel frustrated at work, Giblin provides these reasons:  Failure … Continue reading →

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Fear

The driving force behind so many actions is fear. Fear of failure, fear of being hurt, fear of not being liked, fear of losing control, fear of loss, fear of the unknown, and countless other types of fear. Instead of … Continue reading →

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An Ounce of Prevention

You may have heard the saying “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It simply means that it’s better to consistently maintain something than let it lapse and then try to get it back to where it … Continue reading →

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Dancing Under the Stars

This past Saturday, I drove to Gainesville, Florida for a night of dancing under the stars. The people in the Gainesville swing dance scene put on this magical event once a year and this was my first time going, but … Continue reading →

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How to Say No

Do you have trouble saying no? Do you regularly say yes because you feel like you’ll be letting somebody down if you say no and that they won’t like you for it? I know what that feels like because I’ve … Continue reading →

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Unity

I’ve seen a lot of divisive stuff online lately. I’m not going to say what it is but I think you know to what I’m referring. For this blog post, I’m going to focus on things that unite us and … Continue reading →

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Holding Space

For most of my life, I’ve habitually agreed with other people even if I didn’t actually hold their perspective. I tended to do this especially when they were being negative, probably because I didn’t want to become a target for … Continue reading →

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A Different Kind of Saturday

This past Saturday was one of the busiest for me in a long time. I spent time with a lot of friends doing several events in two different cities. I’ll share the highlights of those events with you in this … Continue reading →

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Points About Leadership from Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill includes a segment in Think and Grow Rich called “The Major Attributes of Leadership”. I found those points to be consistent with my ideas about leadership as well as examples of what I consider to be good leadership, … Continue reading →

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Review of The 5 Love Languages

The 5 Love Languages is a great little book by Gary Chapman. Chapman goes into a lot of detail about various aspects of relationships, with a special focus on communication and “love languages”. According to Chapman, a love language is … Continue reading →

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