Purpose Isn’t Always Glamorous

So, many times when individuals examine or contemplate their “Purpose,” they envision some great calling with astounding results. Things like: discovering a cure for cancer, preaching the Gospel to millions – like Billy Graham, writing best selling novels that thrill readers around the world, or founding an organization to help those in need – such…

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Put It in Writing

On a past Valentine’s Day, a California based film editor gave his wife a journal.  His thinking was that they could take turns writing to each other.  They found that they both enjoyed this process.  As a matter of fact, his wife expressed the excitement that she feels when she notices that he has replaced…

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Radical Acceptance

I recently heard a client make the statement, “My husband doesn’t accept me.”  When I asked for her to give me more information, she went into a lengthy list: “I go to bed too early, I don’t vacuum correctly, I take too long getting ready in the morning, I don’t set the table the right…

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Rejection

You have no doubt heard the phrase (maybe you have even spoken it), “rejection hurts.”  Well a recent study has concluded just how true that may be.  The results, published by the National Academy of Sciences, found that the regions of the brain that respond to physical pain overlap with those that react to social…

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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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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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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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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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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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