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Serious steps bring you closer to your dream

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. I have always found Session 8 of the Dream Coaching program to be a challenge – both when I am [...]

By |June 28th, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Columns, Uganda, Writing|Comments Off on Serious steps bring you closer to your dream

You can’t fail if you learn the lessons and keep trying

Note: For ten weeks, Betty is using the Dream Coaching® program to work on finishing and publishing a book about her trip to Uganda, and is reporting on her progress in her weekly column. To read the series from the beginning, visit www.findyourburiedtreasure.com/blog. The introductory post is dated May 3, 2013. Failure can lead to success. Not only is this something I know to be absolutely true, it’s also the message of Session 7 in the Dream Coaching program. In order for failure to lead [...]

You’d better believe it!

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. The tipping point. The straw that broke the camel’s back. These and other similar phrases and sayings have to do [...]

By |June 14th, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Columns, Quotes and Sayings, Uganda, Writing|Comments Off on You’d better believe it!

Without a doubt, you can achieve your dreams

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. I’m a lousy writer. I’m boring, repetitive, self-absorbed, and idealistic. Not only that, but my book is doomed to fail [...]

By |June 7th, 2013|Coaching, Columns, Uganda, Writing|2 Comments

Dream with No Limits

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. I went to the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres last week to see “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” one of my [...]

By |May 31st, 2013|Coaching, Columns, Uganda, Writing|Comments Off on Dream with No Limits

A sense of purpose will launch your dreams

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. The third session of the Dream Coaching program is the one in which people’s hidden traits and talents really start [...]

By |May 24th, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Columns, Respect, Uganda, Values, Writing|Comments Off on A sense of purpose will launch your dreams

Integrity honors your values, your word, and your dreams

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.” I don’t know the source of that quote, but [...]

By |May 17th, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Columns, Quotes and Sayings, Uganda, Values, Writing|Comments Off on Integrity honors your values, your word, and your dreams

Set an intention, then get moving

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” There are several interpretations of that famous saying. What it says [...]

By |May 10th, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Columns, Uganda, Writing|Comments Off on Set an intention, then get moving

A fool or a healer? Time will tell.

“Physician, heal thyself!” This ancient proverb isn’t just for doctors. It’s for all of us who sometimes need a reminder that we should be following our own advice, and that what we are telling or teaching others to do is exactly what we should be doing ourselves. That’s where I am right now, and what I’m preparing to do about it makes me feel vulnerable and exposed – because I’m going to be exploring and sharing in print some things about myself that I never [...]

By |May 3rd, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Columns, Uganda, Writing|2 Comments

A thoughtful question and response come from a Facebook friend

A Facebook friend of mine – who’s also a friend in real life – posted this question recently: “What one piece of technology should be eliminated for the good of humanity?” Suggestions included the fax machine, cell phones, and Facebook. Some of the responses generated additional comments, such as the “sad but true” observation that without Facebook, civilization as we know it would crumble and fall. Several people chimed in about cell phones, noting that although they were good, they should require a license to [...]

By |April 26th, 2013|Columns|Comments Off on A thoughtful question and response come from a Facebook friend