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Three Best Values for Success and Happiness
February 03, 2022 12:17 - 5 MBWhat are the three best values for success and happiness? It’s simple. Just live three values: Seek Wisdom, Practice Love and Get Results until they become habits, part of your very being, so you naturally develop the high trust, high performance relationships that bring success and happiness. That’s it. Covenant Leadership. It will give you the best chance for success and happiness in all areas of your life. How does it work? Success At work, the more your clients-customers trust you, ...
How to Start a Conversation in Any Situation
June 28, 2021 19:26 - 4 minutes - 4.06 MBhttps://youtu.be/hZaWFsV32HI A lot of people get anxious because they don't know how to start a conversation with someone new. With Covenant Leadership, if you can remember just 3 things, you can master a simple approach to starting great conversations and relationships with anyone you meet. Whether it is at work, in the community, or even with a romantic interest. Whether you are comfortable starting conversations with strangers or someone who gets anxious talking to someone new, this sim...
Do This Today and Change Your Life Forever
June 11, 2021 10:01 - 5 minutes - 9.91 MBThere's something you can start doing right now that will profoundly change your life and the lives of those you love. It will give you the best chance for happiness and success in life, and it will change the world while you're doing it. It doesn't cost a nickel. It doesn't require any special gear or a membership. What can you do that will profoundly change your life? Seek Every Opportunity to Practice Love It is simple. Starting right now, go through your day looking for every opportu...
How to Achieve Happiness and Success, and Change the World
June 03, 2021 15:34 - 7 minutes - 14.5 MBHow can you achieve happiness and success in life? Some people say happiness is all about how much money you have. Other people say happiness is about your social status or education level. The best science tells us something very different. In an earlier blog, we talked about the meaning of life and your purpose in life, which is happiness, fulfillment. In this blog, we’re going to talk about how you can achieve happiness and success in life, and change the world while doing it. We will ...
What is the Meaning of Life?
May 18, 2021 23:23 - 2 minutes - 2.63 MBWhat is the Meaning of Life? What's the meaning of life? What's your purpose in life? Some people say there is no meaning to life. Other people say that the meaning of life is whatever you want it to be. But I think there's a much better answer. Welcome to Real Talk About Life where we use Covenant Leadership to develop the relationships that bring happiness and success in life, and change the world. What is Happiness? What's the meaning of life? What's your purpose in life? The answer ...
7 – Why The Most Important Relationship Is The One You Have With Yourself
October 31, 2020 01:00 - 6 minutes - 6.48 MBFrom our earlier episodes, we know that happiness in life comes from good, high-trust, covenant relationships. To develop good relationships, practice the three Covenant Virtues: Seek wisdom, practice love, and get results. The more people trust your wisdom, that you love them and that you can get results, the better your relationships and the stronger your leadership. The more you practice these virtues, the more they will become habits and part of your character. You won’t just develop re...
The Power of Three: Why More Than 3 Core Values Doesn’t Work
October 23, 2020 14:08 - 4 minutes - 4.64 MBWe’ve all read dozens of articles giving us eight things we can do to be a better leader or parent or person. Most of them seem like good tips. By the time I read three or four articles, I have a list of 25-30 things I am supposed to do to be a better leader. And that’s after just a few days of reading. Maybe you are one of those people who can remember and do 25 things at the same time. If so, more power to you. I am not one of those people. I’ve learned The Power of Three. It’s simple. M...
6 – How Practicing Love and Getting Results Will Change Your Life
October 16, 2020 13:21 - 7 minutes - 7.49 MBWelcome to the sixth episode in our series on how you can achieve happiness and success in life. From our earlier episodes, we know that Happiness and success in life come from high-trust, covenant relationships. In our last episode, we said that the best way of developing good relationships is to live the three virtues: Seek Wisdom Practice Love Get Results The more people trust your wisdom, that you love them, and that you get things done, the stronger your relationships. I...
5-Wisdom: Why It’s Critical for Your Success
October 08, 2020 15:08 - 7 minutes - 7.91 MBIt’s simple. Happiness and success come from high-trust, covenant relationships. We know that from our previous blogs-podcasts. So, what is the best way to develop good relationships? Just do three things: Seek Wisdom Practice Love Get Results The more people trust your wisdom, that you love them, and that you get things done, the stronger your relationships. In this episode, we’re going to focus on wisdom and why its critical to your success. SEEK WISDOM Wisdom is the knowledge ...
Learning From Mistakes: Leadership Lessons From Buckwheat and The Cow
September 22, 2020 16:54 - 6 minutes - 5.82 MBI am one of those people who sometimes learns things the hard way—by making mistakes. Many of the best leadership lessons I have learned came while I served as an AV-8B Harrier pilot in the Marine Corps. Sometimes the leadership lessons came in installments. In this case, the first installment came from The Cow and the second from Buckwheat. The Cow I was a young Marine officer and new AV-8B Harrier pilot who had just reported to my first squadron in Yuma, Arizona, a few months prior. In th...
4–Seek Wisdom, Practice Love, Get Results: Happiness and Success Part 4
September 17, 2020 23:56 - 9 minutes - 9.23 MBIn our last blog, we talked about how happiness and fulfillment come from good, high-quality relationships. In this piece, we'll talk about the three basic ways to understand relationships, and find that covenant relationships give us the best chance for happiness and success. Three Types of Relationships Football, basketball and golf are all different paradigms for playing a sport. They all use the word “team”, but they mean different things by that word. In football, there are offensive, ...
How Postmodern Critical Race Theory Will Destroy Your Organization and Our Nation
September 09, 2020 06:51 - 7 minutes - 8.41 MBRecent events have put Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the headlines. Companies, government and organizations are engaging CRT without any idea of where it comes from, what it believes or why it is profoundly dangerous. CRT is one of many theories—including Critical Legal Theory, Intersectionality, de-constructionism, Gender Theory, etc.—that have their roots deep in postmodern thinking that started in the mid 1900's. Postmodern thinking has become increasingly dominant in academia—especially ...
Seek Wisdom, Practice Love, Get Results: Happiness and Success 3
September 08, 2020 14:26 - 8 minutes - 8.63 MBHAPPINESS AND RELATIONSHIP We’ve got an 80-year Harvard study that says happiness comes from good relationships. There’s a good reason for that. As human beings, we are biologically wired for relationship. Relationship is a fundamental part of our human nature and DNA. Having good relationships fulfills our human nature. That’s why good relationships bring happiness. That’s why we thrive when we are in good relationships. As the Harvard study shows, we are healthier, feel better, live longe...
3–Seek Wisdom, Practice Love, Get Results: Happiness and Success Part 3
September 08, 2020 14:26 - 8 minutes - 8.63 MBHAPPINESS AND RELATIONSHIP We’ve got an 80-year Harvard study that says happiness comes from good relationships. There’s a good reason for that. As human beings, we are biologically wired for relationship. Relationship is a fundamental part of our human nature and DNA. Having good relationships fulfills our human nature. That’s why good relationships bring happiness. That’s why we thrive when we are in good relationships. As the Harvard study shows, we are healthier, feel better, live longe...
2–Seek Wisdom, Practice Love, Get Results: Happiness & Success Part 2
September 02, 2020 16:27 - 6 minutes - 6.71 MBHAPPINESS COMES FROM GOOD RELATIONSHIPS Harvard University has been conducting the Study on Adult Development for more than 80 years. It includes Harvard undergrads from the 1930’s and disadvantaged Boston youths from the early 1940’s—and their children. The purpose was to find out what makes happy and health lives. The ongoing study has tracked the lives of thousands of people in over a hundred dimensions including their lifestyle, health, careers, psychology, relationships, and financial s...
Seek Wisdom, Practice Love, Get Results: Happiness & Success 2
September 02, 2020 16:27 - 6 minutes - 6.71 MBHAPPINESS COMES FROM GOOD RELATIONSHIPS Harvard University has been conducting the Study on Adult Development for more than 80 years. It includes Harvard undergrads from the 1930’s and disadvantaged Boston youths from the early 1940’s—and their children. The purpose was to find out what makes happy and health lives. The ongoing study has tracked the lives of thousands of people in over a hundred dimensions including their lifestyle, health, careers, psychology, relationships, and financial s...
1–Seek Wisdom, Practice Love, Get Results: Happiness & Success Part 1
August 25, 2020 18:06 - 4 minutes - 5.14 MBLife can be intense, fast-paced, and complicated. Everywhere you turn, there’s pressure to be successful. At work, we’re supposed to have cool jobs that pay well, and are socially relevant and fulfilling. We’re supposed to be ambitious, enthusiastic leaders moving quickly up the career ladder. As parents, we are supposed to get our kids into the best schools, and ranked programs for sports or dance or music—or all three simultaneously. We’re supposed to be a good room-parent and coach whil...
Seek Wisdom, Practice Love, Get Results: Happiness & Success 1
August 25, 2020 18:06 - 4 minutes - 5.14 MBLife can be intense, fast-paced, and complicated. Everywhere you turn, there’s pressure to be successful. At work, we’re supposed to have cool jobs that pay well, and are socially relevant and fulfilling. We’re supposed to be ambitious, enthusiastic leaders moving quickly up the career ladder. As parents, we are supposed to get our kids into the best schools, and ranked programs for sports or dance or music—or all three simultaneously. We’re supposed to be a good room-parent and coach whil...
Shut Up, We Don’t Care About You: More Lessons from the Covid-19 Crisis
April 28, 2020 08:25 - 14 minutes - 14 MBBy Pete Bowen and Bailey Bowen SON OF A SHARECROPPER In mid-February—just two months and a lifetime ago—my wife and I were in her hometown of Dothan, Alabama, for her high school reunion and to spend time with her father. My father-in-law is the son of a sharecropper without much formal education. He grew up in one of the very poorest areas of the US, his bedroom the covered porch of a country house. He became a union pipe-fitter working at paper mills and nuclear power plants. His wife ha...
Wisdom Through Humility: Lessons from the Covid-19 Crisis
April 20, 2020 06:57 - 12 minutes - 12.8 MBBy Pete Bowen and Bailey Bowen I learned a few important lessons last week that some might find helpful. On March 17, government-ordered Covid-19 shutdowns reduced my consulting business income to $0 overnight. The same week, two of my three daughters were laid off from their jobs. At the time, we were told that the shutdown would be a couple weeks. It would be tough and painful, but we would get through it. Though I had no income, we had enough savings to go 6 months on a bare-bones budg...
9 – Wisdom vs. Power: Postmodern Paradigm Part 2
April 07, 2020 17:48 - 12 minutes - 12.8 MBWelcome back to our series, Wisdom and Love vs. Postmodern Power. We’ve been talking about why we have so much conflict in our society and unhappiness in our lives. In this session, we’ll discuss postmodern ideas about relationships, power, rules, freedom and how we develop the young. Remember the three keys to understanding the Postmodern Paradigm: There is no Truth or Morality or facts. Everything in life is In-the-Eye-of-the-Beholder. There is no purpose or meaning in Life. All th...
8 – Wisdom vs. Power: Postmodern Paradigm Part 1
April 02, 2020 20:46 - 14 minutes - 14.4 MBWelcome back to our blog series Wisdom and Love vs. Postmodern Power. We’ve been talking about why we have so much conflict in our society and unhappiness in our lives. The primary reason is that we have three conflicting understandings of life at work in society. It’s like trying to play a game of basketball-football-golf. I call it basket-foot-golf. The conflicting rules make it impossible to combine them into a single game. It will inevitably lead to conflict and deep frustration. Are ...
Crisis is an Opportunity to Develop Wisdom
March 23, 2020 22:21 - 6 minutes - 6.78 MBWe’re in tough times right now. Two of my three daughters were laid off last Friday. After a well-worded inquiry, my oldest daughter avoided a lay off and transitioned to a new role in her company. Manager of the 3rd shift disinfecting team. My mother is in the late stages of Alzheimer’s, and inaccessible in her board and care. The good news is that she doesn’t know what’s going on. The bad news is that I may have held her hand for the last time. My 84-year-old father is in isolation in h...
7 – Wisdom vs. Power: Modern Paradigm Part 2
October 11, 2019 20:10 - 20 minutes - 20.5 MBWelcome back to our second session talking about the Modern Paradigm. Let’s start with a review of what we learned in our first session on the Modern Paradigm. For thousands of years, the Wisdom Paradigm was the dominant way of understanding life across all the world’s great societies, cultures and religions. That was until about 450 years ago when Europe was torn apart by more than 100 years of religious wars that killed millions of people and devastated nations. With Europe broken polit...
7 – Love & Wisdom vs. Postmodern Power: Modern Paradigm Part 2
October 11, 2019 20:10 - 20 minutes - 20.5 MBWelcome back to our second session talking about the Modern Paradigm. Let’s start with a review of what we learned in our first session on the Modern Paradigm. For thousands of years, the Wisdom Paradigm was the dominant way of understanding life across all the world’s great societies, cultures and religions. That was until about 450 years ago when Europe was torn apart by more than 100 years of religious wars that killed millions of people and devastated nations. With Europe broken polit...
6 – Love & Wisdom vs Postmodern Power: Modern Paradigm Part 1
September 28, 2019 05:41 - 3 BytesWelcome back to our ongoing series about the history of the ongoing conflict in America—and how we fix it. In our last three blogs, we discussed the basics of the Wisdom Paradigm—the dominant way of understanding life for thousands of years—for almost all cultures, religions and philosophies. The Wisdom Paradigm teaches us that human nature has been the same through history, and that we all have the same destination in life, the same purpose, which is Happiness, fulfillment. Happiness come...
6 – Wisdom vs Power: Modern Paradigm Part 1
September 28, 2019 05:41 - 19 minutes - 20.5 MBWelcome back to our ongoing series about the history of the ongoing conflict in America—and how we fix it. In our last three blogs, we discussed the basics of the Wisdom Paradigm—the dominant way of understanding life for thousands of years—for almost all cultures, religions and philosophies. The Wisdom Paradigm teaches us that human nature has been the same through history, and that we all have the same destination in life, the same purpose, which is Happiness, fulfillment. Happiness come...
5 – Love & Wisdom vs. Postmodern Power: Wisdom Paradigm Part 3
September 21, 2019 20:10 - 16 minutes - 15.9 MBWisdom Paradigm Part 3 Welcome back to our third and last session talking about the Wisdom Paradigm. The better you know the Wisdom Paradigm, the more successful you can be in all aspects of your life—at work, at home and with your family. For thousands of years, the Wisdom Paradigm had us on the right track developing towards goodness and Happiness—until we took a wrong turn a few centuries ago into the Modern Paradigm. We’ll talk about that wrong turn, what happened and the Modern Paradigm...
5 – Wisdom vs. Power: Wisdom Paradigm Part 3
September 21, 2019 20:10 - 16 minutes - 15.9 MBWisdom Paradigm Part 3 Welcome back to our third and last session talking about the Wisdom Paradigm. The better you know the Wisdom Paradigm, the more successful you can be in all aspects of your life—at work, at home and with your family. For thousands of years, the Wisdom Paradigm had us on the right track developing towards goodness and Happiness—until we took a wrong turn a few centuries ago into the Modern Paradigm. We’ll talk about that wrong turn, what happened and the Modern Paradigm...
4 – Wisdom vs Power: Wisdom Paradigm 2
September 11, 2019 14:12 - 19 minutes - 19.1 MBWisdom and Relationships In our last blog, we talked about the basics of the Wisdom Paradigm. The better you understand the Wisdom Paradigm, the happier and more successful you’re going to be in life. Let’s review some of the anchor points from our last session. In the Wisdom Paradigm, culture and times may change, but human nature has remained the same throughout history. Life is about pursuing Happiness—the fulfillment of our human nature. What brings us Happiness in life? The answer: Go...
4 – Love & Wisdom vs Postmodern Power: Wisdom Paradigm 2
September 11, 2019 14:12 - 19 minutes - 19.1 MBWisdom and Relationships In our last blog, we talked about the basics of the Wisdom Paradigm. The better you understand the Wisdom Paradigm, the happier and more successful you’re going to be in life. Let’s review some of the anchor points from our last session. In the Wisdom Paradigm, culture and times may change, but human nature has remained the same throughout history. Life is about pursuing Happiness—the fulfillment of our human nature. What brings us Happiness in life? The answer: Go...
3 – Wisdom vs. Power: Wisdom Paradigm Part 1
September 04, 2019 00:03 - 16 minutes - 16.5 MBWith all the wealth and education and technology that we have today, why does life feel disorienting and confusing? Why are supposedly smart people saying and doing things that are absurd and contradictory? Why do we feel like basic morality has collapsed and we’re headed the wrong direction? Welcome back for the third blog in a series that tells the story of how we got into this mess and how we can get out of it. As we discussed in earlier blogs, the confusion and disorientation we are f...
3 – Love & Wisdom vs. Postmodern Power: Wisdom Paradigm Part 1
September 04, 2019 00:03 - 16 minutes - 16.5 MBWith all the wealth and education and technology that we have today, why does life feel disorienting and confusing? Why are supposedly smart people saying and doing things that are absurd and contradictory? Why do we feel like basic morality has collapsed and we’re headed the wrong direction? Welcome back for the third blog in a series that tells the story of how we got into this mess and how we can get out of it. As we discussed in earlier blogs, the confusion and disorientation we are f...
2 – Wisdom vs. Power: A Brief History Part 2
August 06, 2019 20:38 - 18 minutes - 18.3 MBBasket-Foot-Golf: How Paradigms Work In our last session, I teased you with some imagery. Imagine walking on an athletic field and seeing a group of people trying to dribble footballs through a sand trap. Take second to really visualize that. To our left, there is a coach talking about the proper golf club selections for the free throw line and goal line. To our right, we see a person wearing shoulder pads put a big orange ball on top of a small white tee, and try to hit it with a 5 iron. ...
2 – Love & Wisdom vs. Postmodern Power: A Brief History of the Conflict in America
August 06, 2019 20:38 - 18 minutes - 18.3 MBBasket-Foot-Golf: How Paradigms Work In our last session, I teased you with some imagery. Imagine walking on an athletic field and seeing a group of people trying to dribble footballs through a sand trap. Take second to really visualize that. To our left, there is a coach talking about the proper golf club selections for the free throw line and goal line. To our right, we see a person wearing shoulder pads put a big orange ball on top of a small white tee, and try to hit it with a 5 iron. ...
1 – Wisdom vs Power: A Brief History Part 1
July 30, 2019 15:57 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBLost on a Low Level Flight Back in the last century, when I was in flight school in the Marine Corps, I was stationed for a time in the vacation destination of Kingsville, Texas. At one point, Mother Nature decided to send a massive hurricane our way. With the hurricane inbound, a young instructor and I—he was 25 years old and I was 23—were told to take one of the jets and go away and get some training done. The instructor decided we were going to practice low-level flights to Houston and Me...
1 – Love & Wisdom vs Postmodern Power: A Brief History of the Conflict in America and How We Fix It
July 30, 2019 15:57 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBLost on a Low Level Flight Back in the last century, when I was in flight school in the Marine Corps, I was stationed for a time in the vacation destination of Kingsville, Texas. At one point, Mother Nature decided to send a massive hurricane our way. With the hurricane inbound, a young instructor and I—he was 25 years old and I was 23—were told to take one of the jets and go away and get some training done. The instructor decided we were going to practice low-level flights to Houston and Me...
Six Anchor Points That Can Make You Successful–and Keep You From Crashing–in Life
July 11, 2019 21:14 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBAirplane Crashes and Reference Points Almost exactly 20 years ago, on July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife Carolyn died in an airplane crash off the coast of Massachusetts. The famous son of President John F Kennedy was headed to Martha’s Vineyard for a wedding. A safety investigation determined that Kennedy flew into hazy weather at night and experienced spatial disorientation, causing him to lose control of the airplane and crash into the ocean. More simply stated, Kennedy flew...
The Best 3 Core Values for Success at Work and in Life
June 27, 2019 17:03 - 10 minutes - 10.3 MBIn our last blog, we talked about three simple things you can do to build a great organizational culture. The three steps were to: Identify your core values Develop an ethos to practice your core values to create your culture Continually improve your core values, ethos and culture The point is that if you take each of your core values and transform them into 2-3 specific behaviors that practice that core value, you can intentionally create your organizational culture. You can align a...
Want a Great Organizational Culture? Do These 3 Things
June 18, 2019 21:41 - 12 minutes - 12.5 MBIt doesn’t matter what kind of team you are leading, your organizational or team culture is really important for success. If you have a strong team culture, you will get more employee engagement and productivity, and higher performance. Studies show that companies with strong cultures have improved performance including: 65% increase in share price 4x increase in revenue growth 15% increase in productivity 30% greater client satisfaction 100% increase in unsolicited employee appli...
Life is a Rigged Game: Love is Your Key to Winning
June 05, 2019 19:48 - 9 minutes - 10.2 MBLife moves quickly. Work. School. Kids. Travel ball teams. Friends. Social media. Keeping up with pop culture and the latest Netflix series. You’ve got to have the right job that combines social consciousness and financial reward. All while saving the environment and being politically conscious and staying in great shape and finding time for yoga or meditation so you’re not too anxious or stressed or depressed. And don’t forget to post the latest vacation on Instagram to show everyone else...
If You Don’t Care Enough, You’re a Bad Person: How We’re Killing our Millennials and iGens with Injustice and Guilt
May 29, 2019 20:55 - 6 minutes - 7.59 MBNot long ago, a group of friends of mine were having an email discussion about a problem facing our nation at the time. They’re all good, well-intentioned and successful people. We all agreed that a certain behavior was deeply wrong, but we had deep disagreements about the nature of the problem and the best solution to fix that problem. The email exchange got spirited. At one point, one of the participants said that if you didn’t understand the injustice his way and you didn’t agree with hi...
Why Faith is Critical to Your Business Success: No, It’s Not About Religion
May 21, 2019 12:17 - 9 minutes - 10.3 MBIf you are like many people, when you saw the title Why Faith is Critical to Your Business Success, you probably got uncomfortable. We’re not supposed to talk about faith and business together. We’ve been taught to see life segregated into two different areas: your public/work life versus your personal/private life. Work and business go on public side. Faith goes on the private side. You shouldn’t bring your faith to work, right? Wrong. You definitely need to be careful about how you brin...
The College Admissions Scandal and How We’re Killing Our Kids: The Relentless Pursuit of Unhappiness
April 02, 2019 05:12 - 7 minutes - 8.21 MBThe college admissions cheating scandal is filling the news lately. I led a college prep high school for 14 years and put three daughters through college myself, so I’ve got some experience in that admissions game. Yes, the college admissions scandal is about cheating. Yes, the college admissions scandal is about wealthy people having a big advantage over 90% of American families trying to get into elite colleges. But these are really just symptoms of a deeper and more important problem: o...
Lessons from the Death of Colin Kroll: Wisdom, Formation and Happiness
February 26, 2019 14:23 - 10 minutes - 12.5 MBA recent Wall Street Journal article, The Tech Whiz Behind Vine and HQ Trivia, tells the story of Colin Kroll. Professional Success Colin was a young, self-taught computer programmer who left Detroit In 2007 to go to New York City and do app coding. He worked 12-hour days at the office and did more work at home. Eventually, Kroll found backers who funded a video app called Vine. You’ve heard of it. Vine was an app that allowed people to publish 6 second videos that looped. It was a big hit o...
Secret to Happiness #2: Your Relationship with Yourself
February 13, 2019 07:55 - 11 minutes - 12.4 MBMarine Corps Officer Candidate School Way back in the summer of 1985, I spent my June and July in a special kind of hell called Marine Corps Officer Candidates School—Marine OCS. Most people, when they hear the word “school”, think that Marine Officer Candidate School would be a place where you learned how to be an officer in the Marine Corps. Nothing could be further from the truth. Marine OCS was all about putting you under a tremendous amount of physical, mental and emotional pressure t...
The Secret to Happiness #1: High Quality Relationships
February 05, 2019 13:39 - 9 minutes - 11.4 MBTragedy, Unhappiness and Burnout This week I read an article about a 27-year old young woman who hanged herself in her New York apartment. She left her mother apology notes online and in her apartment that read she “felt absolutely nothing during what should have been the happiest and darkest times in my life.” The notes continue, “I realize I am undeserving of thinking this way because I truly have a great life on paper. I’m fortunate to eat meals most can only imagine. I often travel free...
Why Presuming Good Faith is Critical to Your Happiness and Success
January 25, 2019 22:34 - 11 minutes - 12.9 MBAttacking the Bad and Stupid People So, America, are we pissed off at each other enough yet? It is seductive and easy to get pissed off at bad people. Stupid people. You know the ones. The idiots out there on the other side. The fake news ones. They are ignorant. Selfish. Hateful. They deserve whatever bad things happen to them. Doesn’t it feel good to be righteous? To defend your truth? To fight for something you believe in? To tolerate the good stuff and be virtuously intolerant of what...
Episode #0111 Why Presuming Good Faith is Critical to Your Happiness and Success
January 25, 2019 14:34 - 11 minutes - 12.9 MBAttacking the Bad and Stupid People So, America, are we pissed off at each other enough yet? It is seductive and easy to get pissed off at bad people. Stupid people. You know the ones. The idiots out there on the other side. The fake news ones. They are ignorant. Selfish. Hateful. They deserve whatever bad things happen to them. Doesn’t it feel good to be righteous? To defend your truth? To fight for something you believe in? To tolerate the good stuff and be virtuously intolerant of what...
Millennials: Pursuing Happiness and Avoiding Burnout
January 16, 2019 02:43 - 15 minutes - 18.8 MBLast week a writer from the millennial generation, Anne Helen Petersen, published an essay, “How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation”. My millennial daughter recommended it to me. She said Petersen’s article captured the way she and many in her age group feel about life. Petersen’s article is a good read that captures the real pain—the burnout—that millennials are feeling today. Before any conservatives out there automatically dismiss her article because it’s on the liberal Buzzfeed w...