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How to Stop Yelling at Our Children
Are you a parent who frequently resorts to a raised voice to get your children’s attention? Do you believe they won’t hear you if you don’t yell? Are you thinking the only way to get them to listen is to yell? Do you think yelling is the best way to get compliance? What other effects to do you think yelling is having on your children? Would you like to consider some alternatives? I was recently asked the following three questions, and thought I’d post them to my blog for you to see:
Business Tip – Corporate Culture
If you are a business leader and find you don’t know what your corporate culture is, you may want to consider aligning your business around a particular culture. Once you do that and communicate it to all your employees, you may have some people who leave because they aren’t comfortable with that particular culture, but the employees who stay will be more loyal and committed to your vision.
Book Review: Little Voice Mastery
Little Voice Mastery by Blair Singer is a book about overcoming self-sabotage. While I think his book is a good beginning primer on self-sabotage, I prefer Gay Hendrick’s book, The Big Leap. In the first half of Singer’s book, he does a good job of explaining self-sabotage, where it comes from and the four reasons people fail. I thought the techniques he wrote about to overcome self-sabotage were good but somewhat elementary.This would be a good book for someone who is first learning about self-sabotage and beginning their journey toward freedom and little voice mastery.
To Be Exclusive or Not . . . That is the Question: 7 Reasons for or Against Commitment
Statistics show younger people are more likely to have children than to get married. Older people who are getting involved romantically are finding it less and less reasons to get married. Why has marriage gotten such a bad reputation?
Courage Quote
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”— Anaïs Nin
This quote speaks to how important it is to do the things we think we are destined to do. When we live our lives from the InsideOut, we are in touch with what we want to do, what we believe we are here to do, and what we have to offer others. Sometimes doing what we know we are destined to do is scary.
Is It Time To Spring Clean Your Life?
In our fast-paced, throwaway society, it’s easy to just throw something away because you’ve had it a while or you’re just simply tired of it. When you spring clean your life, the question to ask yourself is whether or not each of these areas is serving you or if it’s time for something new! Here are 12 areas to consider.
Radical Acceptance
We tend to destroy our relationships with the destructive relationship habits of complaining, blaming, criticizing, nagging, threatening, punishing and bribing, all in an attempt to get our partner to change. But we rarely get the results we seek. So one thing we can do is to stop using the destructive habits and begin using the healthy relationship habits of listening, supporting, encouraging, trusting, respecting, accepting and negotiating differences.
Book Review:15-Minute Marriage Makeover
15-Minute Marriage Makeover – by Dustin Riechmann
This is a short, 100-page book on how to prioritize your marriage 15 minutes a day in a way that brings huge rewards. It’s perfect for couples in the Maintenance Stage of the Relationship Cycle. After a couple makes a lifetime commitment to each other, they slowly fall into a pattern of living their separate lives and forgot to reconnect with each other in meaningful ways. Even sex can become routine and no longer feel as satisfying as it once was.
Look In, Not Out, for the Answer
Whenever you are frustrated and thinking your problem is another person, it’s likely time to take a good look in the mirror. Our frustration comes from wanting people to do things they don’t want to do. In order to find the peace within that so many of us are seeking, it is helpful to get to a place in our lives where it really is all right for everyone to do whatever they think is best for them.