Forgiving need not be outwardly focused. We may also need to give ourselves this precious gift. Let’s face it, there are times when we are our own worst Persecutors! I had the opportunity to experience this first-hand a while back. After 2 days of wonderful TED* workshops, I was at the airport working on my …
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The feeling of desire is tricky. On one hand, desire generates passion and helps us create what we really care about. On the other hand, if we obsess about something we want, our desire can become an attachment or even have an addictive quality that screams: “I have to have it now!” Desire can pull …
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A friend recently said to us, “I am learning to have fewer reactive conversations and more frequent creative conversations.” What simple advice! The question arises, when we go reactive, how do we shift to a creative conversation and embody the TED* roles of Creator, Challenger and Coach? We recommend hitting the pause button to lengthen …
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An experience of happiness often arises when we live in the empowered TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic)™ roles of Creator, Challenger and Coach. Feeling joy can actually be distressing for some of us because there is a tendency to feel we don’t deserve this much happiness. Modern living has created an expectation that we must always …
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By now, millions of people have declared their New Year’s resolutions, hoping they will accomplish a long list of goals in the coming year. If you are like most people, New Year’s resolutions rarely are successful and often cause more stress and drama. In the TED* work, we suggest that people focus on creating outcomes …
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Last week I was in India, serving as an executive coach in the School for Inspired Leadership (SOIL) and Mesa Research Group’s Global Leadership Program. During the program, we had the great pleasure of meeting and hearing from Arun Maira, who is a member of the Planning Commission of India and former chairman of the …
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I am blessed to have a circle of Co-Creators that meets periodically to support one another. One of those friends is Jerilyn Brusseau, who shared with us a short poem from her late husband, Danaan Parry. Is the verse of a Creator, indeed: I say Yes I say Yes to my life, I say Yes …
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I recently heard a senior executive of a major multinational company say that what we need is a “fear inspired event” to mobilize action. He cited the Soviet Union’s launching of the Sputnik satellite and the United States’ reaction that led to the formation of NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and the entry …
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During a recent conference call with our TED* Practitioners, one made the comment that she dislikes interacting with Victims and sets strict boundaries to make sure she stays away from people who complain and/or wallow in their powerlessness. She said, “I have very little patience with people who play the victim role in the DDT …
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“If you can’t say ‘no,’ your ‘yes’ doesn’t mean much.” That statement from Dr. Carol Weber still rings in my ears, almost 20 years ago during an executive education program I managed for my employer through the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Just this afternoon, someone made the comment that knowing what you …
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