Tag: resilience
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What color is loneliness?
Loneliness is a modern epidemic Standing in line at a grocery store, I overheard a customer tell the clerk ringing through her order, “I never use the self-service option because I live alone.” That simple statement carried the freight of her isolation. Like her and almost every other human on the…
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Three hopeful truths for 2018
Enter 2018, fireworks on a revving motor Anyone else feeling inundated with endless stories of unsavoury behaviour? January enflames as if Santa delivered lumps of coal named rocket, collusion, accusation, harassment, misconduct, allegation, fabrication, confabulation, political polarization, melting polar icecap, tweetstorm, snowstorm, firestorm, mudslide, dirt, and doomsday. That’s just the…
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Does conflict competence make a good story?
Seventeen years ago, I wrote a novel about a Conflict Manager. For the past sixteen years, I’ve been editing it. My interest is in Conflict Managers’ thought processes as we work. The draft title is Regret Served Hot and Cold. What do you think of that? One theme is the protagonist’s…
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Will practice make up for lack of talent?
If I listen to the voices that tell me I can’t, or it’ll never happen, I ensure that I don’t and it won’t. If I try anyway, there’s at least a chance. Whose voices hold me back? Well, that’d be my inner voice and I’m no longer listening. I’m a…
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Kindness is my Kryptonite
Question posed: What is the one quality I can use to make rejection easier for the other person to accept? Answer: Sometimes rejection requires a firm, unambiguous, one sentence that doesn’t leave room for argument of whether or not you mean ‘no’. Other times, you might want a softer approach.