1/8/09 update: The competition is now closed. Congratulations to Pace for winning a copy of Naked Idealism for their friend Nick, via the posting below! If you wish to hear about future offers and competitions, please sign up for the Idealist Coach News/Updates List. While I was excited to receive some media coverage of my [...]

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One Sunday morning I was sitting in the pews of Pittsburgh’s First Unitarian Church, where I was scheduled to facilitate my first coaching-related workshop a few weeks later. One member, a Carnegie Mellon professor named Randy Pausch, announced that his pancreatic cancer had returned. He would be moving away with his family so they could [...]

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I recently shared this excerpt from my upcoming book Naked Idealism as part of a discussion on wealth, where it generated a few interesting responses. Several decades ago, Shakti Gawain outlined a simple but powerful model in her popular book Creative Visualization. She holds that much of our existence is based upon three interrelated aspects [...]

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This is an excerpt from my upcoming book Naked Idealism, from the chapter entitled “Relating to Others Despite Differences.” I originally intended to post this later, but after observing similar dynamics in a few well-intentioned discussion groups, I decided it needed to enter the world sooner…I hope many of you find it helpful! Comments are [...]

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This is an excerpt from my upcoming book Naked Idealism, from the chapter entitled “Relating to Others Despite Differences.” If we have not resolved our own major insecurities or our need to appear perfect, we may inadvertently set impossibly high standards for others. We may look down upon them when they don’t meet our standards, [...]

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