Monthly Archives: August 2011

Communication skills exercises, part VII: building blocks and tips

on August 4, 2011 in Blog, Education, Freedom, Tips

[This post is part of a series on Communication Skills Exercises for Business and Life. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] The previous exercises work fine on their own. You can further use them as building blocks to create whole conversations that are intriguing, interactive, mutually satisfying. Here are[…] Keep reading →

The tough times of personal change

on August 3, 2011 in Tips

A client wrote me about frustration with a personal development project he was working on with a mentor in his field. I felt my response applied generally to personal change so I think it may help others. I’m reading two parts to your message — one is asking for specific advice on your project; the other is about anxiety with the pace of change. I’ll address the second part first.[…] Keep reading →

Communication skills exercises, part VI: feedforward

on August 2, 2011 in Blog, Education, Freedom, Tips

[This post is part of a series on Communication Skills Exercises for Business and Life. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] Do you wish you could get the best advice for you, tailored perfectly to you, at the time you wanted it? This exercise gives you that, in a[…] Keep reading →

When 100% orange juice isn’t: Pepsi, Coke, and agribusiness turn fruit into chemical concoctions

on August 1, 2011 in Awareness, Blog, Fitness, Nature

Today is another pause in my series on exercises on communications skills, based on some posts I read on orange juice and how agribusiness processes it. Do you love orange juice? How could it not be just squeezed fruit juice? I love fresh squeezed juice. Fresh squeezed orange juice is one of my favorite things on earth. Growing up we got it from concentrate, I guess because we couldn’t afford[…] Keep reading →

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