Among American idioms there is this phrase: “Someday my ship will come in.” It originally had reference to the old days when people would invest in a merchant sailing ship’s journey. When it returned, they would be paid a share…
Stories of courage fill popular literature. Definitions of courage abound, but seem to change with time. The basic nature of courage still seems to be something of a mystery. Some difficulty in understanding courage may be due in part to…
Nobody likes to be lied to. Too bad there’s not a phone app that flashes green or red on the screen when someone is hiding something from us. However, there are behaviors that you can watch for that can tilt…
It’s a fair question: “Just how much does a person’s body language reflect their attempts to hide things, and just how accurate are those indicators?” When you are involved in a confrontation, it’s to your tactical advantage to have some…
Are you the “go-to” person when something needs to be done? You chair committees, make phone calls, fill in for others, write the newsletter, plan the party and a host of others things that are not strictly your area of…
Do you have an entitlement mentality? We live in an age of entitlement like never before. Is it really possible to live in our culture without at least some of that kind of thinking leaching into your character? People with…
Effective communication is absolutely essential to maintaining any relationship. And when a relationship is strained or conflicted or broken in some way, it can’t be healed without skillful communication. Carl Rogers and others were able to identify at least a…
Carl Rogers and others have identified at least a dozen very common, but destructive roadblocks to communication. And these dozen roadblocks can be divided into three types. The first is “Judging.” Communication Killers: #1 Judgments The second is “Forcing a…
Effective communication is absolutely essential to maintaining any relationship. And when a relationship is strained or conflicted or broken in some way, it can’t be healed without skillful communication. It’s a mistake to assume that just because you can talk…
All conflict resolution workshops emphasize that part of the process may be to allow the angry person to vent. Sometimes that means taking abuse from an angry person in silence for a limited amount of time. So, after the venting…