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Communication
IF WE WANT PEOPLE TO GET CLOSE TO US, WE HAVE TO BE APPROACHABLE! Does this house look welcoming? What do you think it says about the people who live there? We often walk past here, and for 3 years,… Continue Reading →
Lately I’ve been hearing often from people who tell me “he/she/they don’t understand!” That’s frustrating! Sometimes it’s their husband or wife. Or their kids. Or their parents. Or even a co-worker. Always, it’s someone who matters. We need these people… Continue Reading →
Recently I was leading a group-coaching session in which all members expressed some hesitancy to show all their strengths in certain situations. Everyone on the call are leaders, mid-level management and up. All are experts in their role, and all… Continue Reading →
True leaders of any kind know “Teamwork makes the dream work.” In fact I first heard this truth from my daughter-in-love. She’s mainly used it with our toddler and pre-school grandsons, who want to do just about everything by themselves!… Continue Reading →
Some time ago I wrote about choosing our battles. As an illustration, I used our dog Trooper, when he decided to make himself comfortable in my favorite chair and I decided it wasn’t worth fighting over. Often in life we… Continue Reading →
What’s the first thing that comes into your mind when you think of disagreement? Debate (heated)? Disunity? Division? Disrespect? Dreadful? Damaging? Destructive? Other negative impressions and results that start with “d” or other letters? All of these often happen in… Continue Reading →
If you’ve ever owned a computer, at some point this has happened to you: You’re trying to open a document, or a website, or your email, or… and all you get is this hypnotic circular-motion ring in the middle of… Continue Reading →
With the Presidential Inauguration tomorrow, something has to re-unite us before we collapse! As Abraham Lincoln quoted Jesus, “A house divided against itself cannot stand” (Mat. 12:25). So we need to ask ourselves— Is anything worth a civil war? In… Continue Reading →
Wouldn’t it be great to have people actually listen to you, especially when you really need them to? Whether team members, family members, or any group member, it’s frustrating and discouraging when people either write off our suggestions or don’t… Continue Reading →
Last July I published a post on how to be understood– https://willyounotbeawareofit.wordpress.com/2019/07/15/how-to-be-understood/ But what if we’re on the other end? What if we’re having a hard time understanding someone else? What if we’re frustrating them because we don’t “get it”?… Continue Reading →
If we want the right answers, we have to ask the right questions. Otherwise we’ll get the wrong answer, or at best, an answer to a question we don’t have! Last month, I was trying to figure out how to… Continue Reading →
Imagine going to a supermarket and finding the entire produce section full of rotting bananas. No more, no less. Perplexed and a bit put-off, you ask a worker “What are all these gross-looking bananas doing here, and why isn’t there… Continue Reading →
As of now, the world has been in pandemic-mode for at least 5 months. And just when Covid-19 was becoming history, in many places, cases have surged again. With all that comes the continued, or renewed, restrictions—what we can’t do,… Continue Reading →
“Mom, you have authority. You just have to find it in you!” My son declared this to me in reference to my inability to get our dog to listen to me to stop barking. “You know. It’s like being a… Continue Reading →
Too much conflict in today’s world? Yes! It stems from what I call “Different-ism” — that is– Assuming and expecting worse, or the worst, from someone based on an obvious difference. Judging according to what we see or hear on… Continue Reading →
