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Apologies happen—sometimes multiple times a day. We apologize when we unintentionally say something hurtful, when we make a mistake at work, or when we bump into somebody on the street. And then there are the bigger apologies—those we should have addressed months or years ago. Ma...

How do you feel about your body? More specifically, how do you feel about your physical appearance? For many of us, especially me, these are not easy or fun questions to answer. Most people I know have issues, concerns, or complaints about their body and about how they look...

Thanking and celebrating employees are critical components of successful managing in an intellectual-age economy. Appreciation and celebration activate emotions. And, strong positive emotions have been proven to inspire loyalty...

I’ve been sharing this at many of the recent speaking engagements and workshops I’ve done so I wanted to do it with all with you. As...

Too often in my practice I hear clients tell me that they are sick of finding themselves over and over in the same types of unfulfilling romantic relationships. These clients are seekers for something new...

“How can I be happy when the economy is tanking?” It’s a question I hear a lot lately. It seems that as the financial picture becomes more depressed, so do we. That’s why now, more than ever, it’s important to be happy from the inside out, or what I call Happy for No Reason. Doing th...

For quite some time I’ve had a self-righteous judgment that most people in our culture are way too shallow. ...

I’m speaking at the Maria Shriver Women’s Conference in LA this week. Very exciting. I am honored to have been invited again. For those who won’t be attending, I wanted to share what I am going to be speaking about. Here are top tips on how to start a business and create change. 1) ...

Everybody needs positive messages, and no living creature possessing a personality can escape this fact any more than a sentient being living in a human body can deny that body’s need for physical food. Equally important, negative messages are poison to the personality; they starve and deform it. ...

For that matter, are you even exercise ready? Americans spend $61 Billion supporting the weight-loss industry but often fail because they are not diet or exercise ready. They may be sustaining the industry, but are they really supporting themselves in permanent change...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama made a proclamation that stunned the crowd at the recent Peace Summit in Vancouver: “The world will be saved by the western woman.” And at Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference where I will be speaking again this year, they sold an astounding 14,000 tickets in the first 2...

How do you react when dealing with a crisis? When I’m faced with a crisis myself, I often go into “survival mode” – doing anything and everything I can to get through it. In other cases, I may simply deny that the crisis exists, hoping that it will just go away on its own. While ...

How do you feel about people giving you really honest feedback? If you’re anything like me, you may both love and hate it at the same time. ...

I got an email a few months back from a woman on my ezine list who shared a great saying that she loves – “If it’s worth doing, it’s even worth doing wrong.” I laughed out loud when I got it and have been thinking about it ever since. What a great message. A littl...