Posts Tagged ‘journaling’
Keeping Anxiety At Bay
In recent weeks, we’ve all seen or read about the rapid spread of COVID-19 and the tanking of the economy, the increased numbers of people who have tested positive for the disease, the rising death toll from coronavirus, and the huge numbers of people out of work. I am, by nature, an optimist and I…
Read MoreReach Out Your Heart
The poem below was sent to me by two different friends, so you may have already seen it. But I’m passing it on because it’s an important reminder to all of us to reach out to others as we stay socially isolated in these uncertain, frightening and anxiety-producing times. Pandemic What if you thought…
Read MoreYou Don’t Need to Wait to Start Improving the World
I recently did something I typically don’t do – I went to see a movie after I’d read the book. Often I find the movie to be a disappointment after reading the words on the page. And if I’ve seen the movie first, I typically won’t go back and read the book. But this time…
Read MoreThe Dash
On December 18th my mother died. Exactly four weeks later, a beloved colleague died in his sleep. At the second funeral, the funeral director read this poem, which had been shared with me by my rabbi 19 years ago on the death of my father. I had tucked it away in a file that I…
Read MoreI Would Be A Crock Pot
For years I taught interviewing skills to groups of managers and executives — behavioral interview questions that focus on past performance, the best predictor of future performance. I would conduct “mock” job interviews in which I played the role of the applicant and took actual interview questions from the group. Often I would be asked,…
Read More7 Loving Things
Valentine’s Day is a very special time of the year for love and self love. So, for Week 6 of my 52-Week Best Self Program, I posted a quote by David Wilkerson, pastor of the non-denominational Time Square Church in New York City. “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”…
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