Recognition and Affection August 7, 2020The Pacific Institute When your younger children crave attention, do they throw a tantrum, misbehave or act out inappropriately? If so, perhap...Read More »
New Perspective = Growth August 6, 2020The Pacific Institute Why is it so hard for some people to change? These folks deny the need to change, push back against any change, and can ...Read More »
Leadership in Action – The Idiot Response August 5, 2020The Pacific Institute While you want your team to collaborate and leverage each other’s ideas and efforts, more often than not, one or two m...Read More »
Conversations August 5, 2020The Pacific Institute Yesterday, we talked a bit about what we can do when adversity strikes. There is one more piece that needs to be added t...Read More »
Knocked Off Your Feet? August 4, 2020The Pacific Institute When adversity strikes, whether it be loss of your job, an illness, a natural disaster or when you take a big hit that r...Read More »
Back to the Brain August 3, 2020The Pacific Institute In the last 10 to 15 years, neuroscience has discovered so much about the physical properties of the brain, that researc...Read More »
Controlling Your Inner World July 31, 2020The Pacific Institute We hinted yesterday that each of us has more than one superpower. If you’ve given this a little thought, you have alre...Read More »
The Power of Focus July 30, 2020The Pacific Institute In this day and age of superheroes with superpowers, it’s important to remember that each of us has our own superpower...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Our Blink Response Makes for Bad Leadership July 29, 2020The Pacific Institute The immediate assumptions we wrap around ideas and information is our blink response. (Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book, Bl...Read More »
Changing Perspective July 29, 2020The Pacific Institute Today, imagine yourself as a business, one that manufactures several lines of product. Imagine that this organization is...Read More »
Activity and Accomplishment July 28, 2020The Pacific Institute If you are busier than you would like to be, but also less productive, then read on. As the world tentatively opens back...Read More »
A Perspective on Ego July 27, 2020The Pacific Institute Most people don’t want to think of themselves as having a “big ego,” because the picture that draws is of someone ...Read More »
Communicating Expectations July 24, 2020The Pacific Institute What do you expect from your kids? How do you communicate your expectations to them? Today, let’s talk about what’s ...Read More »
Passing Along Knowledge and Wisdom July 23, 2020The Pacific Institute What is a mentor? What is it that mentors do? Can having a mentor help you succeed? Today we’re going to be answering ...Read More »
Leadership in Action – 3 Styles of Decision Making July 22, 2020The Pacific Institute There are two fatal flaws in coaching others into better performance: • Overuse of Command (micro-managing) • Over...Read More »
To Be Fully Human July 22, 2020The Pacific Institute The ability to reason and understand is important to our well-being. But so is our ability to feel emotions. Let’s loo...Read More »
Taking On the Difficult July 21, 2020The Pacific Institute When you have a complex problem to solve, how do you go about solving it? Here is some information that might help you. ...Read More »
Resetting the Picture July 20, 2020The Pacific Institute Did you know that, in at least one way, you are at your creative best when your system is out of order? When we talk...Read More »
A Matter of Self-Esteem July 17, 2020The Pacific Institute How do you respond to personal affronts or insults? If you have high self-esteem, they probably don’t bother you much....Read More »
Fear is a Choice July 16, 2020The Pacific Institute If you had a choice between love and fear, which would you choose? If you think the answer is obvious, then you might ju...Read More »
Grand Parenting July 1, 2020The Pacific Institute These days, it seems that children are spending more time with their grandparents, and extended families, than ever befo...Read More »
The Betterment of Our Humanity June 23, 2020The Pacific Institute Do you have a vision – a picture in your mind of how things can be? If you do, how clear is it? How big is it? How muc...Read More »
Bias and Comfort Zones June 22, 2020The Pacific Institute Whether it is the intentional racist comments from a celebrity, applying a nasty epithet to a sitting politician, or the...Read More »
Expiration Date – None June 19, 2020The Pacific Institute As parents, grandparents, teachers and such, we want to teach our children to believe in their own ability to “cause, ...Read More »
Engaging in the Future You June 18, 2020The Pacific Institute As individuals, human beings are constantly changing, even though it may not seem like it in the short term. In what ...Read More »
To Be Authentic June 17, 2020The Pacific Institute What does it mean to be authentic in today’s world? It doesn’t mean just being different or standing out from the cr...Read More »