Recently, I was approached by the The American City University to participate in a new series of free webinars designed to help the entrepreneur and working professional. This was an exciting learning process and I am very happy to share the results with you!
This engaging half-hour webinar covers the key challenges we face as business professionals with families, outside interests and career development targets. You will learn 5 tools that can be started right now to align your work/life focus for greater balance, speed and ease. Hope you enjoy the show and learn something extremely useful today!
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Mission Impossible?"
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All of us have vampires in our lives, people who suck our energy. Sometimes these vampires are very clever about stealing our energy before we even know it. Usually where there are strong obligations, there are strong vampires. The “what I must do” is often bullied by a strong vampire making sure that is so.
We are all asked to do things we don’t like to do, at work and in life. We’re also put in situations to deal with people we prefer not to be around. It is our nature to go to war. We are not trained to be luvvers. It is only in our essence, which must be developed, that we learn to luvv what we don’t like. 
We are not aware of how transparent we really are. We seem to think that if we sugar coat a message or just tell it like it is, others won’t notice the dagger in our hand, or that they just had all their energy sucked out of their being in the midst of a rough conversation. 
Are you looking to have a very Merry Christmas or Holiday? Do your expectations exceed what really happens? Then it may be time for a different approach to keeping the spirit season. Why not discover how to maintain balance, enjoy the season and recharge your battery at the same time. 
Happy New Year! We say it every year, briefly, and then let it go. But with a new year, new energy comes roaring through. And we don’t tend to embrace that newness, not really. For new is an energy that commands change. We have to develop the character, the courage and the capacity to hold it, to be it and to embrace it. So we make some silly resolutions but we stay in the same game. New is here to kick our asses. Every fighter knows he must get in shape to face a championship fight. He often has to undertake new training to rise to the current level of engagement because the energy of the now is always new. And as hard as he trains, he must still show up to be present for the fight to get the credit.
My wife, Gail, told me a very interesting story the other day. Twenty-five years ago she was participating in a group workshop. As the workshop got started, the leaders gave the ground rules for the next five days. One of the ground rules over this time period was: “No side talking during the session.” As the workshop went on, she found herself sitting next to another participant, Henry Conyers, and tried to strike up a conversation with him. He in turn gave her a stern look as to say, “Didn’t you hear the ground rules?”
Have you ever made a New Year’s Resolution that really worked? They usually don’t. Resolutions are the attempts to change, devoid of the principle that brings change. They are attached to fear and comfort: fear I won’t accomplish what I say I will, and comfort with the existing patterns that don’t want to budge. In order to change anything, you have to really sign up for the new. The energy of this New Year requires RESOLVE– resolve to learn, resolve to change, and resolve to release sabotaging patterns. 
America was founded by individuals who were drawn to this land. What drew them? They didn’t come of their own volition; they were drawn by an attraction. They were drawn by a vision, a vision that sustained them through the forging of a nation. That vision pulled and sustained them so they could overcome impossible odds. The people who came here were deeply ingrained in slavery.
The Conscience is a funny thing to me. It a part of me, and I know it’s there, but it is not always easy to listen to. This past weekend my wife, Gail, and I got really caught up with the TV show Heroes. It’s been out for 2 seasons, but I never took the time to TIVO it. It’s a show about all these abnormal people who have incredible evolutionary skills, with each of them going through their own personal battle on what these gifts or curses means. As each character evolves they have to deal with the internal battle of good and evil. As I watched the show, it caused me to tune into how I battle with the conscience. Sometimes, sometimes not, but mostly learning how to really listen and follow. 