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Category Archives: Family
A Rock Star for A Day
For one day I know what it feels like to be a celebrity. Not the kind that creates a frenzy of thoughtless screaming and reckless behavior. But the kind that stems from sincere appreciation and gratitude. And the fan base is made up of First through Fifth graders at Voyager Elementary School under the guidance of Principal Patty McClelland.
I am now an official member of Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads Of Great Students). My name around campus was affectionately just Watch Dog. My day started with a greeting from Chad Redinbo, Chief DOG who is spearheading the movement for Voyager. As we entered the training grounds of our future leaders, Nora Halsen and Lynn Tachell greeted me and gave me a hero’s welcome, other than fingerprinting me.
Posted in Awareness, Children, Education, Family, Good People, Teaching
Tagged Watch D.O.G.S.
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Trust is a greater compliment than being loved
Love makes the world go around, variety is the spice of life, and trust is a greater compliment than being loved. Consider the analogy of driving your car. When you fill up your tank with gas, you are starting the relationship with love. It’s combustible, flammable, and can produce intense feelings of passion and anger.
Trust, on the other hand, is like oil in your engine. When the emotions of passion are intense, a high trust relationship (oil) reduces the friction and cools the engine. Without oil, the engine will overheat and stop running. The higher the trust, the cooler, smoother, and faster the ride.
Posted in Awareness, Communication, Divorce, Family, Marriage, Teaching
Tagged high trust relationship, Love, trust
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Workshop Video
The workshop has been moved to July 22- 23. That is a Friday and Saturday. The hours will be Friday: 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM and Saturday: 9 AM – 5 PM.
For those who haven’t been to a 2-day Currency workshop, our final game is called “The Ice Cream Experience” and my wife makes an incredible ‘hot fudge’ topping.
I’ve just finished editing a video that explains the workshop.
Please sign up in the box below and I’ll email you more information on the workshop after your payment is received. You will also start receiving pre-workshop material to better prepare you.
Posted in Coaching, Communication, Education, Family, Teaching
Tagged 7 skills of, powerful listening skills, professional training, Sales Training
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The Pleasure of Being Angry
Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun! (Frederick Buechner)
Holding a grudge against someone else hinders your ability to find happiness with those you love. Research clearly shows that forgiving others is good for your health. Which means, not forgiving, hinders your health. Therefore, holding a grudge or keeping your hurt feelings wrapped up inside is harmful to both your mental and physical health.
Here are a few nuggets from the research on the impact of learning forgiveness:
- Less stress, which means things such as racing heart, upset stomach, and dizziness
Posted in Addiction, Awareness, Family
Tagged Anger, Forgiveness, Grudge, Holding a grudge
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Betty and her Six Shooters
Big Ben stirs as his alarm goes off at precisely 5:15 AM. Noticing the time, he grunts while stirring his bride to life. “What time is it,” grumbles Betty? “5:15″ answers Ben. Sleeping cross armed with each hand lightly gripping her pearl handled six-shooters, Betty subconsciously tightens her grip, purses her lips, sits up in bed, and unloads 12 bullets into the ceiling while yelling “why didn’t you wake me up at 5?”
Ben, fascinated by the firearms display, takes the pearl handles from his wife, reloads both guns, and then explains that he expects her capable of setting her own alarm. Less than six seconds later, there are 24 bullet holes in the ceiling.
Posted in Family, Marriage, Teaching
Tagged couples communicating, Effective Communication, Marriage
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Mt. St. Betty and Big Ben
Betty’s been quietly churning about Ben for the past six months. On the surface, Betty and Ben look like the perfect couple. As far as Ben is concerned, they are. Oh sure, there’s the occasional nagging and disagreements, but all in all, from Ben’s perspective, life is humming along just fine.
Gradually, as Betty’s lava flow gets closer to the surface she turns up the intensity on Ben. The nagging sessions are a little longer and she complains about a lack of closeness, although she can’t identify what’s eating her. Ben senses something but the thought dissipates.
> Hormones = < Brains
Last week I taught a class of 16 and 17-year olds. The night before they attended Prom. My wife thinks that piece of evidence is important. There were five students, three boys and two girls. The topic was not difficult or deep but the questions required thinking. The girls were offended at the end of class while the boys enjoyed it.
I interrupted the girls on a constant basis with questions as they shared covert messages with each other while the boys did not engage in such actions. The girls complained that the teacher went too far with the lesson and brought in material that was interesting but not applicable while the boys’ favorite part was the applicability of the outside material they had never heard.
Happiness: An Elusive Quality of Life
Do you remember how you felt when you were in your twenties and life was full of energy and excitement? It was the season of the present with a hope for the future, one filled with the expectation of “Wealth and Happiness.”
What happened? Set aside the monetary collapse of our economy for now, are you happy? Are you content with life? How’s your marriage? What about your children, how are they doing?
Happiness means many things, but at the core is the ability to feel safe, comfortable, and confident when interfacing with other people. It means to live in a space of trust and respect. And it means you have the skills to resolve the conflicts of life.
Sex Addiction In The Marriage
The end purpose of marriage is not love! It starts with love, but it does not end with love. That is, a successful marriage. A marriage that flourishes is one filled with intimacy. The Latin word for intimacy is Intimus. It is the deepest form of affection. You are letting someone in you. For a woman it is physical and literal. For the man it is emotional and metaphorical.
A marriage may start on the foundation of love, but if criticism, constant blaming, anger, pornography, food disorders, or any number of stumbling blocks are permitted entrance into your marital space, intimacy is thwarted, and the key ingredient to intimacy is TRUST. Without trust there is no intimacy.
Posted in Family, Marriage
Tagged Addiction, Marriage, Pornography, trust, Trust In Marriage
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Stop! Before You Make Your New Year’s Resolution
Hold off on that resolution! How about some clarity on what you’re doing.
Each year you create a set of goals that make you feel good when you write them down. Your temporary feeling of success gets emboldened when you share your goals with another.
You hear yourself articulate the future and actually believe you’re going to lose 30 lbs. by March or that you’re going to get a Y membership and really show up and break a sweat.
Maybe your New Year’s resolution is to stop criticizing your wife? Nah, why would you do that when she earns every narcissistic comment spewing forth from your mouth?
Posted in Children, Communication, Family, Marriage
Tagged Communication, Effective Communication, New Year's Resolution, New Year's Resolutions
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