Say “Good Morning”

A recent Associated Press article reported on the need to change the “smartphone habit.”  It appears that smartphone addiction is by design.  The constant stream of notifications, color scheme in apps, and all of the “likes” followers and in-game trophies are intentionally designed to distract you from the “real” world to focus on your “virtual”…

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Safety

“Safety” is a word that we feel more than we speak, when it comes to our significant relationships.  We also frequently feel unsafe, not necessarily physically but perhaps emotionally.  We all want to feel safe.  However, we may go about achieving that safety in some very creative ways. Like Earl, in the cartoon above, I…

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Revisiting Love

While we have talked about “Love” in previous posts, it has been awhile and the discussion is always ongoing.  I appreciate the words of one author, in her discussion of the powerful influence of media.  She writes that it took her 30 years to discover important aspects of ethical relationships that she had never seen…

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Responding to Crisis

On July 6, 2013, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from South Korea crashed short of the runway at San Francisco Airport.  The plane struck the ground with the tail hitting a seawall.  Three flight attendants were ejected.  One of the remaining flight attendants, Lee Yoon-Hye, helped hundreds of passengers get safely out of the plane and…

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Respect

In 1965, Otis Redding wrote “R – E – S – P – E – C – T” which was a man’s plea for recognition and respect.  However, it was Aretha Franklin’s 1967 recording of that song that we best know.  She won two Grammys with this a year later.  Most all of us who…

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Report

It is one of those days.  On your way to work there was an accident that backed traffic up for two miles.  Then, once you got to work, things weren’t much better.  Two of your employees were out sick, last night’s orders were never entered into the system, and the toner on the copier is…

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Remember the Good

Author Dana Reinhardt recounts the evening she escorted her elderly grandmother to an event honoring a Vietnam Vet. Complete with many celebrities, Dana pointed several out to her, including Robert Downey Jr. Later, exiting the facility, her grandmother tripped and fell hard into the wheelchair ramp, slicing her right shin. As she bled profusely, Robert…

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Remember How to Play

A couple recently sat in my office – intense, unhappy, and bearing down on their marriage with the same exertion required to open a very tight jar.  In other words, they were working really really hard but were not having success.  The marriage was no longer fulfilling and they both felt unable to meet the…

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Relationship On Purpose

What if I could teach you in under 100 pages, steps that that could improve your most important relationships forever? Would you want it? On October 25th, my newest book, Relationship On Purpose: 8 Strategies Guaranteed to Improve Your Marriage or Significant Relationship, was released. I believe so strongly that these strategies can absolutely change…

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