Byron Katie
When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100% of the time.
Category Archives: CHARACTER
5 Signs of a Great Vacation
What a Great Vacation Does For Us
For many of us though, taking a true vacation can be a challenge. Often the weight of job or business responsibilities doesn’t allow us to easily get away. Sometimes a vacation itself represents additional work in terms of budgeting, planning, booking, packing, and food prep. And when we’re on vacation sometimes it’s difficult to let […]
7 things you absolutely cannot allow on your vacation
Removing these is a surefire way to a stress-free vacation
5 Steps to Your Next Promotion
Get a peek inside one mentoring session I recently had
“How do I get promoted to the next level?” This was the question of a young up and coming professional who recently called me for advice. Their question was specifically related to getting promoted to a Director role. I thought about this question at some length before I provided him a response. What follows are […]
5 ways to help ensure “happy” kids don’t become “spoiled” kids
How to protect our children from "entitlement"
As conscientious parents, we all have something in common. We not only want to provide for our children – physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, but we genuinely want to give them better information, lessons, learning, skills, experiences, conveniences, and opportunities – in other words – a better life than we had. However, in this noble […]
How to get over a crushing defeat
How to grab your happy ending by the horns, when the happy ending is no where in sight
I have a confession to make…I need this post more than you do. My life has been full of hard lessons, many of which were of my own doing – my casual attitude toward risk, poor choices, unforeseen outcomes of decisions, as well as your garden variety mistakes and setbacks. I have experienced some crushing […]
Mark Botros
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5 Things That All Great Parents Do
Basically, All Parenting Comes Down to These Things
If you were to look up parenting books on Amazon you would find over 229,000 results (as of the writing of this blog post), and I guarantee you that number will grow. In times past, people lived in communities and villages that included local family, friends, and neighbors. These villages contained within them the wisdom […]
How To Overcome Fear (Part 2 of 2)
From fearful to FEARLESS
In a previous blog post How To Overcome Fear (Part 1) I discussed fear as our personal alarm system and attempted to categorize it into a few basic types. If you haven’t read that post, I would highly recommend reading it before moving further. …Continued from the previous post So now that we understand fear a […]