February 23, 2012

Job Searching–Shelley Roth

Mike Volpe, the Chief Marketing Officer at Hubspot, wisely suggested, “Don’t be afraid to get creative and experiment with your marketing.” I urge you to apply this idea to your own job-hunting techniques.  Get creative and experiment with the marketing of yourself.  In today’s economy there are many qualified candidates for only a few open [...]

Step Outside Your Comfort Zone–Levya Brama

 As a coach, I often challenge people to step outside their comfort zones. Why do I do this? Because the rewards for the person who is willing to do it, are quite exciting, sometimes even wonderful or profound!  Rewards, yes, that’s what I said. Want to know what some of them are? Take a look [...]

Why Shamanism?–Barbara Snow

Why Shamanism?  By Barbara Snow When my spiritual path turned to shamanism in 1999, I had no prior exposure to any form of indigenous spirituality. I struggled. What is a WASP from Texas doing studying Peruvian curanderismo?  I only knew that the practices provided comfort, direction and a sense of returning to myself. In the [...]

Benefits of Learning in Class–Barbara Winter

What Have You Learned Lately? Living in the information explosion that is our modern world, it’s easy to forget that there’s a big difference between acquiring information and genuine learning.There’s also a dynamic that occurs in a roomful of others who share our curiosity that can’t be duplicated on our own.   Several years ago, [...]

How to Learn–Barbara Winter

How to Learn  5 Ways to Get the Most Out of a Class or Seminar As I was busily rearranging the hotel ballroom where my seminar was to be held, a man arrived, marched to the front seat, sat down, folded his arms over his chest and said in a demanding voice, “This better be [...]

Cyclocross Training–James Flanagan

Cyclocross and Mountain Bike Instructor

End of Summer Recovery   The leaves start to turn color, cow bells start ringing and mud becomes fashionable. You have probably finished your last mountain bike races of the summer season and have found yourself gearing up for cyclocross. As we approach fall its a good idea to use your down time to rest [...]

Crystal Gardner–Sew It Up!

Stop before you even think of throwing out that vest that needs a little tender love and care. Don’t even think about taking your jeans to the seamstress when the pocket comes lose or needs a slight hem. Why? You can fix these items yourself. Become a little more resourceful, save your clothes and give [...]

Gary Michael–On Becoming More Who We are: Authenticity as Presence and Responsibility

We usually take “authentic” to mean congruence of thought and deed, or acting in accord with one’s professed values.  It’s a valid definition; it just doesn’t go far enough.  Authenticity is more than the absence of hypocrisy.  I think that to be authentic as a speaker means, above all, to be fully present, for one’s [...]

James Flanagan–Mountain Biking

So you have been ramping up your cycling as we move through the summer months, and you have been joining friends and family on fun rides but there are a few things that turn a great ride into a bad situation. While you’re out training make sure that you inspect your cycling equipment regularly.  You [...]

Evon Davis–A Magical New Moon

The New Moon in Virgo takes place on Sunday, August 28th, 2011 at 9:03pm.  This is a beautiful New Moon with a grand trine in the earth signs (Virgo, Taurus, Capricorn).  If you want to increase your well-being in the material and physical realm, this is a perfect time to set your intentions in order [...]