The Mentorship Approach With Kids & Teens All the skills, techniques, and perspectives provided by Faber and Mazlish give parents better relationships with their children. Many provide short-term results, and all of them are designed for long-term improvements in cooperation and communication. But one set of skills is specifically aimed at helping parents accomplish one [...]

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The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001 I didn’t see this extreme response to success while I was a business co-owner. That might be because our level of financial success was a steady, comfortable [...]

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Pursuit of Happiness: Work, Money, & Play The categories are a little jumbled this month to reflect how a lot of us have gotten our thoughts jumbled. We think we need money in order to play, and to have money we need to “work” – implying a certain level of drudgery and sacrifice. We formulate [...]

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Elephant Burgers Back in February I posted an Elephant Burgers article titled This Sounds Nuts! But I Think You’ll Like It. I gave a brief overview of a system for defining a long-term vision, setting annual goals, then breaking them into monthly pieces and eventually into daily steps. Boy, was I hot stuff! Then a [...]

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Sometimes A Calling Is Very Personal Striving and Thriving In 1994 Hilda Pacheco-Taylor visited Door of Faith (Puerta de Fe) Orphanage in Baja California, México. There were around thirty children in care at the home in La Misión, in the countryside near Tijuana. The buildings were in disrepair and overall conditions were shocking. Things had [...]

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The Mentorship Approach With Kids & Teens You gave the first idea from How To Talk a try. You focused carefully on acknowledging your child’s feelings. You learned more about your child’s world, maybe you defused a couple of situations that were headed for tantrums or arguments, and you deepened your connection with your child. [...]

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The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001 Maybe it’s skepticism borne through experience that causes many employees to doubt their employer ever acts out of consideration or kindness. Maybe it’s a sign [...]

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Pursuit of Happiness: Work & Play Barbara Winter is famous for her book Making a Living Without a Job. She loves to talk about the “Joyfully Jobless” life. It’s easy to hear words like that and be skeptical.

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Pursuit of Happiness: Money How much is it costing you to stay in a job you hate but think you can’t leave?

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Elephant Burgers You have a plan to change your life. At least you have the next couple of steps. You look at what you’ve written down to move you forward. You know you want to get there. You remember being excited just thinking about taking these steps. But now when you look at the steps [...]

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