Category: BLOG

  • How to be a Responsible Coach

    Assuming the Responsibilities that come with Being a Coach, who can forget the famous line of Peter Parker (Spiderman’s grandfather)? He said, “With great power comes great responsibility.”

  • “I’m a Terrible Writer”: A Non-Writer’s Guide to Improving Your Everyday Writing

    At the beginning of every session I’ve ever taught writing, at least one student in the class will issue the disclaimer, “I’m a terrible writer.” That student seems to think he or she is incorrigible, hopeless, a lost cause with the written word. The poor kid was probably just the victim of too much red…

  • A Is For Action’ – What Time Management Is Really About

    When you get right down to it, time management is really about managing your actions. We all want to use the process of time management to allow us to perform more actions in the day, getting everything done that needs to be done and giving us time to do the things we enjoy doing.

  • Dealing with failure in your career

    Dealing with failure in your career: Life is full of surprises and some are good and some are not so good. It is all going to depend on the way that you think and what you do to make it positive. Failure is one problem that we all have to deal with at some time…

  • Relaxing Muscles Can Be the Key to Reducing Stress

    Relaxing Muscles Can Be the Key to Reducing Stress: Perhaps you’re an airline pilot who’s just spent hours in the cockpit.  It seems like every muscle in your body is tense and you need relief.  Or perhaps you’re a stay-at-home mom who’s spent the better part of your day cleaning your house.  You feel as…

  • Battling Romance Myths

    Battling Romance Myths: The institution of marriage is surrounded by a number of myths, stories and advice freely offered by people on a daily basis.  Unfortunately, many people listen to and believe these pieces of so-called wisdom to the point where it doesn’t help their marriage and it only hinders its growth. 

  • Effectively Using PowerPoint

    Effectively Using PowerPoint: The software application PowerPoint has been a revolution in public speaking particularly in the business world. PowerPoint is easy to use, available with almost every implementation of the Microsoft Office suite and it’s reliable. If you can use Microsoft Word, you probably have the skills to put together an effective presentation using…

  • Stress on the Job

    Stress on the Job: Perhaps it’s due to a boss who seems to be making unreasonable demands.  Or it’s the result of a co-worker who seems to routinely pass her work onto you.  Or maybe you’re in a profession where tension is great, such as medicine or law.  While a little bit of stress on…

  • How to Communicate Confidently

    How to Communicate Confidently: One thing common to all great communicators is that when they speak, everybody listens. However, communicating to people is one of the greatest fears for most of the human beings, and especially when it comes to public speaking. Most people dread public speaking more than death! Do you ever wonder why…

  • Dealing with failure to care for yourself

    Dealing with failure to care for yourself: There are a lot of people who fail with simple things like taking care of themselves. It’s hard to walk away from someone who you care a lot about, and that is why so many people have an enabler feeding their addictions and their negative habits.