Speaking to Win: The Blog

Archive for October, 2011

TRUST

If you don’t test trust, then you will never find out who or what is trustworthy. You know that game people play at school or at company retreats, where you take turns falling back into another person’s arms? You’re told, “Don’t worry, their arms are open and ready to catch you”? This game is designed as a trust-building

POWER

So often the people I talk with say they feel powerless: powerless to change themselves, others, their circumstances, their life. I certainly share a sense of feeling powerless at one time or another. I have learned, that often when we feel we are most powerless, we are in fact at our most powerful. There is something quite powerful

WISH

  “You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”                                                          

FORGIVENESS

  Forgiveness is complicated. I honestly did not know how complicated a concept this was for me—and others—until I began writing about it in my new book Words To Thrive By- Powerful Stories of Courage and Hope. Everyone, it seems, has a moving story about forgiveness in his or her life. And it doesn’t seem

PATIENCE

  When I am stuck at a red light and in a hurry, I patiently turn my attention to my breathing. On my in-breath I say, internally or out loud, “I am grateful for all that I am.” On my out-breath I say, “I am grateful for all that I have.” Or I might say on my in-breath, “God

CONNECTION

  The true connections of our lives are often made in the strangest ways, in the most improbable circumstances and with the most exquisite people. On the one hand, deep connections can be built with people over a lifetime. But deep connections can also happen in an instant and with someone who, just a moment before, was a

HEART

  I was in a parking lot recently and someone handed me this big red balloon with the words “Live Whole Heartedly” on it. I was feeling kind of down that day and, holding this balloon with it’s positive message, my spirits were suddenly lifted. This was a “gift of the spirit” from someone I