Some of us are old enough to remember this Pete Seeger classic, the beginning of which is:
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
The song goes on to wonder where [...]
Getting clients to act is not easy, but highlighting the benefits of change should help get results.
As you’re dispensing advice, your client interrupts, “Yes, but…” You clarify, and he says: “Yes, but…” You remind him your advice will help him reach his financial goals. You warn of the consequences of inaction. He might agree, yet [...]
Last summer I was given the honor of accompanying my newly minted five-year old granddaughter, to a local park while all the other adults were in various stages preparing for a wedding at our friend’s house.
When offered the opportunity to go to the park with Pappy, she got excited. I have no illusion it was [...]
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 [...]
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