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Another year or a new year?
THE INSPIRED WORK PROGRAM January 10 & 11 At the beautiful Luxe Summit Hotel (Los Angeles) For the vast majority of us, work is the biggest relationship that we have. We spend most of our hours getting ready for, driving to, being at, coming home and recovering from work. Inspired Work’s entire […]
A unique start for a truly new year!
THE INSPIRED WORK PROGRAM January 10 & 11, 2014 What would happen if you were happy all of the time? No, we’re not talking about the kind of happiness that fades from sameness. We are proposing happiness that never really wears out because life is using everything you have and […]
How the bleep did we get here?
Perhaps it is time to replace our fear of change with an enthusiasm for growth. The Industrial Revolution had an iron grip on our culture for about three hundred years. Clearly that era was over by the end of the 20th century. But, we continue to experience the shock of […]
Life as if
“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.” In 1970, Alvin Toffler’s “Future Shock” predicted a world where the acceleration of technology would reach such a crescendo that many would sink into a […]
Gratitude and the life changing month
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” – Melody Beattie One of the […]
Burning all the boats – One man’s journey towards freedom
Most of you know it: My greatest joy is to be around when someone transforms his or her life. Today, we offer an example: In his mid-forties, Dave Roth is a highly respected pioneer in digital marketing. He has worked for and served a number of Fortune 100 companies. Dave […]
Born perfect
“Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending.” – Virginia Satir We are born perfect. What would have happened to us if we had […]
The genius of courage
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” – John F. Kennedy I’ve been quite caught up with an article from famed neuroscientist Nancy C. Andreasen entitled, “Secrets of the Creative Brain.” It is a lead story in […]
Look up
I am in the midst of research for a new book about employee engagement and the findings indicate a bar set really, really low. For example Gallup’s most recent poll regarding employee engagement indicates that only 12% of the world’s workers are engaged. Employee engagement programs routinely fail because they […]
A letter from david harder
Years ago, I interviewed the late Howard House – Founder of the House Ear Institute, which has restored hearing to hundreds of thousands of people. I asked why he continued to come to the clinic in his 90’s. His response was immediate, “I want to see our patients faces when […]