Archive for May, 2010
3 ways to bring goals into focus
May 29th, 2010
“The whole world is set on fire.”
That’s one of the more memorable quotes from the 1992 film version of The Last of the Mohicans
Coping when your world erupts
May 21st, 2010
So you’re floating along, blue skies ahead, staring into a bright horizon. Life is good.
erupts. In Iceland.
The blue skies become hazy. An ash cloud blocks the bright horizon. You’re grounded and the good is gone.
Major life disruptions can happen just as quickly as the eruption of the Icelandic volcano that grounded planes and stranded passengers all over the world. One moment things couldn’t be better. The next, financial markets crash and you’re unemployed. The doctor says your biopsy is positive. A call brings news that a loved one has died on the way to work. Lightning strikes and your house explodes in flames. And it takes some regrouping before you can figure out how to navigate around the new ash cloud that’s enveloped your life.
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How to avoid risky conversations
May 12th, 2010
Imagine you’re traveling in a foreign country and a man you’ve just met comes stumbling toward you through a crowded marketplace, collapsing into your arms with a dagger plunged into his back. Just before he dies, he whispers to you that a head of state is about to be assassinated.
Fans of film director Alfred Hitchcock will recognize that as the plot to the 1956 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much
These days most of us can identify.
