Personal Development in a Professional World
I’m presenting tomorrow at the Biz Tech Expo in Milwaukee. Topic: Personal Development in a Professional World.
Here are the details:
What Women Need: Is it Really that Different From What Men Need?
Men often complain that they have no idea what women need. They even go further to say that even when they ask women what they need, women don’t know themselves. It’s no wonder men and women have a challenge communicating and meeting each others’ needs.
Truth be told, we are not here to meet each others’ needs, but more to understand our own and others’ needs and to offer support and guidance to help each other fulfill their own needs. That’s not to say men and women don’t fill certain needs for each other, but the bottom line is it’s up to each of us to fill our own needs–whether from the opposite sex, same sex friends, or ourselves.
What I’ve discovered for myself in coaching both men and women is that what women need is really not a whole lot different from what men need. Other than the basic needs for survival and safety, here is what I’ve distilled down to some of our basic needs for either gender: (more…)
How to Finance Death
From my guest post How to Finance Death at Dumb Little Man:
“Any unfinished business is a cause of ongoing stress. While it’s not the most joyful topic, any steps towards overall personal development should involve tying up all the loose strings of your life. This includes planning for your ultimate demise, and determining how your assets are to be distributed once you have left this life behind.
There are many who believe that once you’ve died the disposition of money or property is no longer of concern. Yet most of us have family members we would like to know are taken care of when we are no longer there to see to it ourselves. At the very least, the greediest person can take steps to ensure the tax man is cut out of the equation.”
Read the rest of How to Finance Death at Dumb Little Man.
Where is the Love? Tips for Getting Back that Old Spark
Ever stop to look at your partner and wonder, “Where has all the excitement gone?” Healthy, committed relationships can sometimes lose their luster because we get too comfortable and fall into old routines. We take each other for granted and put our partners on the Low Priority list. But it doesn’t have to be that way!
Like anything worth having, good relationships take work. Fortunately, this kind of work doesn’t have to be grueling. In fact – once you get it going, you’ll find that rekindling the old flame is really pretty fun – no matter your age or how long you’ve been a couple.
Create a Personal Development Plan That Works For You
A lot of people are having trouble coming up with their own personal development plans, if you are among these people you can read Create YOUR Personal Development Plan at Dumb Little Man website. (more…)
Awareness: How You Live is Who You Are
Knowing what you want to be, and who you want to be, is the first key to actually being that person. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you are saying” is a good quote that describes, more often than not, how most people are. They say they want to be kind, generous, and patient when they are being mean, selfish and impatient. Awareness is how we get to where we want to be. If you want to become an improved version of yourself, you first have to know what you want and then you can begin to go in that direction; what you do is who you are, but when you change what you do, you change who you are. (more…)
10 Reasons Why Change Fails
The main obstacle that gets in the way of most people changing how they want to change is that they cannot determine exactly how to change. There is an article at Dumb Little Man about the different reasons why change fails. (more…)
How to Avoid that Sinking ‘What the Hell Was I Thinking’ Feeling After the Company Christmas Party
Dumb Little Man posted a sure-fire strategy to avoid making yourself look foolish at a holiday party. (more…)
The Secret of Fatherhood
As a parent, it is impossible to know what your kids hear, as our children create their own realities. Some studies suggest that what we teach our children from 0 – 13 embodies in them the moral and spiritual core that defines them as individuals and presides over their choices for their entire lives. Don’t ever be afraid to be a father to your children. Share with them the real you, not the one you think they want you to be, and a father is a father, not a friend. (more…)
What Our Kids Teach us About Life Balance
Are you open to learning life balance from your kids? Think about it – when kids are tired they sleep, no matter where they are. They just rest when they are tired, when was the last time you did that? Here are a couple tips to help you open up to the idea of learning balance from kids. (more…)
