As some of you may know I was involved in the filming of a TV docudrama, “The Judd’s” that aired recently for the new Oprah Winfrey Network.
If someone would have asked me if I thought it would be a good idea to have two people try to improve the quality of a historically tumultuous, very [...]
With my head bowed, through my tears and grief, in a barely audible choking voice, I was finally talking with my dad. After years of those all too common conversations limited to talking about sports, the weather, and gossiping about relatives, I was finally telling him all of the things I could never say. Things [...]
I received this letter from a student and athlete that I taught and coached 25 years ago. Here is part of what it said.
I want to let you know how important you have been to me in my life. I know I haven’t seen or talked to you over the last twenty some years, but [...]
I was a participant in a workshop a while back, led by the man who is credited with bringing a concept called Mindfulness Meditation to America and popularizing it. As I understand it, in order to sell the idea, he asked doctors in the hospital to refer the patients that they had decided they could [...]
“You don’t have anything you should wear”, said a friend of mine, more serious than not. “Here’s what I want you to do. Go to a good clothing store and tell them where you are going, how long you are going to be there and who you will be working with and just do what [...]
Clients may need your help discovering the childhood beliefs affecting their financial decisions today.
Every financial planner has had this experience. A client couple comes to you in some financial distress. And they came to the right place: This is what you do, and you’re good at it (if you don’t say so yourself).
After establishing rapport, [...]
I first met Woody when he walked into my group at Onsite in January of 1992. It was the second therapy group that I had led at Onsite. He was a wonderful, warm, charismatic, 49 years old; a 225 pound giant of a man, who I would soon learn was in incredible psychic pain. My [...]
How do they do that? I have always asked that question when I hear people say “Looking back, I have absolutely no regrets”. I haven’t evolved to that level of self-acceptance I guess.
I was reminded of one just the other day. It involved my daughter. There was a time when she was in college when [...]
Though this story first appeared a number of years ago in one of our first books on money, I realize that many of you may not have seen it. I am re-telling it here, because it is an important part of my story.
My relationship with money had always been one filled with a good bit [...]
In my father’s last few months of life, he was in a convalescent home. He couldn’t speak. It seemed as if most of the time he was unconscious, though he might have just been sleeping deeply. I wasn’t really sure that when his eyes were open, if he was awake or conscious [...]
