For many people the idea of divorce calls to mind painful thoughts (In NLP we call these “negative anchors”). And certainly this often may be the case because, when people get married they both agree to be partners together. Their hopes and dreams usually become bound up with one another. They share duties; they share responsibilities; and they share expectations. But when people decide to divorce these shared expectations can’t help but change.
Still, it seems to me that all processes come to an end. Whether something as transient as a thought or something slower like a passing emotion,
Upon seeing someone you work with do something inexplicable have you ever had the thought, “I think that person must be broken somehow. Otherwise, how could they be like they are?”
My friend likes to remind her husband, “I know you don’t agree but really, I mean really, I am not a broken you that needs to be fixed.”
A real conversation I overheard between two business associates reminding me of this...
We have all met people with charisma. A warm smile, that intense look, feelings like there is something extraordinary when you are around them.
Real charisma is a way of "being," not a way of acting. We are each more than the sum of our behaviors. The charismatic phenomena comes from being genuinely who you are at a deeper level while in a connected relationship with another individual. The deep significance of that understanding is what we help people realize in our Authentic Public Speaking class.
Read on to learn more about charisma, why you might want to learn it, charisma basics, and an introduction about how to be charismatic.
I've now lost 155+ pounds since February 1, 2011! It's taught me so much about myself and my place in the food culture we live in. I've also developed many strategies for how to eat and not eat specific foods and for how to plan what I'm going to eat.
Many people I talk to want to discuss exactly what I eat, how much I eat, when I eat, and the specific pros/cons of certain foods. These details are legitamately important to many other people. To me, these considerations are secondary.
More important are the processes I've used to make new decisions about what to eat.
This past weekend 12 people met for two days of intense and emotional self-study that we call Authentic Public Speaking. The program is different from a lot of other public speaking classes in that we don't teach much about platform skills. You can get those at Toastmasters. 
What we teach is how to connect with your own highest values, how to connect with your mind to your own heart, how to connect with your audience at a very deep level, and how to speak authentically from what is really important to you, even when you are sharing the most mundane information.
In doing this, people get over their fears of being in front of an audience. I have had a professional manager and former...
