Relationships

John: I can just tell you what works for me. When I get faced with a challenge, I put my head down and I go to work. It worked for me 10 years ago and it works now. My foundation is rooted in [...]

John: I told this story recently, but it bears repeating again. Goke says there are three types of people. He calls them Fred, Thomas and Clark. Think of Fred, like you would Fred Flintstone, the [...]

John: I’ve talked about the Four Burners theory before, but I read another piece on it so let’s talk about it again. Imagine there’s an old stove in your house. It’s square and has four burners. [...]

John: Goldfarb recently posted a piece in the Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices about Fear and Longing in Clinical Research. He was at a recent conference talking about how the clinical [...]

John: Instead of trying to fix yourself, what if you just accepted yourself as you were. Of course, you can make changes to improve behaviors, but you should be happy when you look in the mirror [...]

John: It has been a crazy week. Kelly got diagnosed with a bacterial infection last week and between work and spending the time with her, well, it’s really all I have time for. But that’s not [...]

John: As human beings, we tend to look back at things with rose-colored glasses. The farther we get from the memory, the better it was. The hard thing to remember is, what happened in the past, [...]

David is a middle manager in a large company. On our last coaching call he talked about his frustration with how things at work are done and what he can and cannot do to change them. As a middle [...]

The tone of the meeting had become hostile, with people interrupting, yelling and making snide comments, and I was appalled. I’d just joined the Board of Directors for a non-profit agency, and [...]

Yesterday I broke a crystal vase that was important to me. It was given to me by someone I love, and I was really upset with my clumsiness. My husband, seeing my distress, was soothing and calm, [...]