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Lessons from Nature

Could you be A Highway Time Bomb? How To Manage Stress Before You Hit The Roads

Millions hit the highways during the summer with underlying stress just waiting to erupt as road rage. It is important to define and diffuse the stress that leads to aggressiveness on our highways and avoid becoming part of an escalating problem ourselves....read more

Win or Be a Loser - How to Recover from our Unhealthy 'Must Win' Attitude

I love playing tennis and always try to win. When I don't I'm mad at myself and can even feel lousy for a few days. I hate being a ‘loser'. A person who loses - a hopeless waste of space – a failure....read more

Building an Inspired Team with Experiential Learning

Life is full of stressers brought on by deadlines, competition, work relationships, and other situations beyond anyone's control. Team-building exercises encourage the creation of strong relationships as a way to create a productive and inspiring work environment that can transform these challenges into opportunities for new growth....read more

Staying Inspired and Motivated

Everyone in every business suffers from lack of motivation from time to time. Sometimes we just get tired and run out of gas and need something to inspire us as we climb the mountains of our everyday lives. Our challenges may seem insurmountable. We may just get bored, tired, unmotivated and burned out....read more

Meetings to Motivate

How to conduct motivating meetings that inspire productivity...read more

The Inspired Leader

By definition to lead is to go before or with, to show the way. In these erratic economic times, when the leaders in big business are making poor ethical choices for self gratification, it is important that we analyze what makes a person a leader qualified to 'show the way' ... a person who is able to inspire others to do their best....read more

How to Survive Relocation

Moving is tough. Why is it so tough? Because every time we go through a relocation, we go through a grief process that requires us to readjust to a whole new life....read more

The Inspiring Ride Down the River of Life

I've always loved the awesome majesty of mountains. They are, however, the byproduct of the rivers that formed them: flowing, adjusting, carving, crashing and gently nurturing the land and animals along the way. The river carves its way through, and the mountains answer as towers of strength. Like the river, our lives are forever moving and changing, shaping us as the water shapes the land it flows through....read more

The Adventure Attitude ... Positive Thinking in Action

Of the 60,000 people who lived to be over 100 in the United States in 2002, the single most important characteristic they had in common was their ability to be maintain a positive attitude in the face of change....read more

Climbing Through Divorce and Finding New Life

The climb was going well. We were physically ready, following our well laid out plan, and working well as a team. The peak was in sight. Suddenly the storm clouds appeared. We tried to ignore the warning signals: high winds, fast moving clouds, dwindling visibility. Finally we retreated. Mission over....read more

Action in the Face of the Immovable Obstacle

When a mountain is in your way as you travel along the path of your life and you are stuck, what do you do? Just like in climbing a real mountain, you are facing the ‘crux’ when you must make a decision about which direction to go. ...read more

Overcoming Obstacles from the Inside Out

As a mountain climber I’m used to dealing with obstacles in my way. Life hands us different kinds of obstacles…. the kind we can’t see but have to overcome anyway. Our lives are full of them every day: the loss of a loved one, the loss of financial security, someone we love disappoints us, we lose confidence in ourselves, a client throws us a curve ball, and many more. ...read more

Staying Inspired Through the Climbs of Your Life

I'm a mountain climber. I've climbed mountains all my life. I've learned a lot from them: how to have a goal, work hard to achieve it, persist taking one step at a time, and face disappointments and challenges along the way. I've learned how to depend on myself to survive and how to work with a team for optimum success....read more

Packing for Life

As a mountain climber I have learned that a successful climb depends on proper preparation: physically, mentally and emotionally. In the same way, as we climb the challenges in our lives, we need total preparation and a support system to assure our energy is peaked for high performance. How do we sustain the physical energy to make it to the peak in our everyday lives at home and at work? How do we keep our minds sharp enough to handle the daily intellectual tasks? How do we keep it all together emotionally under the stress and strain of the climb? It’s all about preplanning, prethinking and having the structure in place to support us as we go....read more

Cheryl Lays an Egg©

This article is about laying an egg in public....getting up in front of an audience and freezing like the deer in the headlights. It's about panicking and losing myself under pressure. However, it's also about refusing to let that egg rot and fester. Instead it's about incubaing it, fussing over it, embracing it, and and watching it hatch into new life and new beginning. ...read more

Lessons From the Eagle

It is only fitting that I start my first action with a family story that turned out to be a metaphor for my life....read more

The Gift of the Eagle Feather

Perhaps my mission was to escape the emotional grip of grief, but in fact I was going back to my nature roots to find a measure of peace and emotional balance in a life that had clearly become unstable....read more

The Seed in the Cone

There is a seed hidden inside the pine cone; a spirit, or force that may be hidden from view. When fire ravages the land, the seed springs to new life. In the same way, when we are beaten down, the indomitable spirit of new growth is there … waiting to spring to life again. It is the seed in the cone that creates new beginnings....read more

Through the Eyes of Eagles Vision

In almost all cultures, the eagle represents power, nobility and freedom. American Indians believed that the eagle was the messenger between humans and God....read more

The Seasons of Change

The cycle that we see in the change of seasons is also a metaphor that describes our personal reality....read more