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May 201822. Relationship Dynamics
Thermostats and Thermometers. In every personal and professional relationship, there is a thermostat and a thermometer. The thermostat regulates the temperature, and the thermometer reads the temperature. The thermostat is that member of the relationship whose natural abilities set or change the emotional temperature of the environment, determining calm or urgency, joy or distress. The thermometer is that individual who responds to the temperature set…
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May 201823. Awareness of Yourself – How To Show Up
Let’s look at your life job description as a person, as a parent, as a professional, and as a creature of God. It’s what you’re put on this earth to do. Your life job description applies to all five areas of your life: professional, financial, personal, family & friends, and spiritual. To help you begin to think in terms of your specific abilities, let’s start…
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May 201824. Managing Your Abilities
Through years of profiling individuals, I have witnessed countless transformations in peoples’ lives. These transformations have often begun with pain, confusion or deep-seated frustration. By the time the process of introducing clients to themselves was completed, they were hopeful and excited about what their lives could become. The positive, frequently dramatic turn-around in people is the predictable result of becoming aware, acting on it, and…
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May 201825. It’s A Wonderful Life
It’s a Wonderful Life is my very favorite movie, the story of a man becoming aware of who he is and how he impacts all the other people in his life. Only when he comes to the end of himself is he able to stop, look and listen. C.S. Lewis talks about pain as God’s megaphone to the world and the end of ourselves as…
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Jun 20149. Performer (From The Impress Family)
As an Olympian loves challenges, the Performer is challenged by provoking a response from an audience. Both pursue their goals with the same tenacity. Performers are the provocateurs who swim against the current and start new trends. Without them, we’d all live in the same boxes. How dull our lives would be without entertainers and high-performance athletes! What would be our inspiration if we had…
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Apr 201418. Energy
This area of time awareness is filled with nuance…with the abstract, aesthetic part of time…with the invisible. Therefore, it is the hardest to identify and describe. It’s like the breeze we feel across our face but cannot see, touch or hold. In a sense it touches us. It is noticeable through the results and consequences of its presence rather than by appearance. Energy is the…