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From my article Can You Improve Meetings with Right-Brained Thinking? at Dumb Little Man: “If you want to spur creativity, capture and hold attention, and promote innovation and interaction, you need to create a space that stimulates the creative, social side of the brain - the right side” Read

“I finally learned that you cannot help people unless they really need help, are willing to be helped, want you to help them and ask you to help them. Even then, you can only help them to help themselves.” ~ Vincent Collins

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by David Bohl Do single people really have goals that are different from married couples? Certainly they do when it comes to relationships. Yet, their career goals may be similar, as are their personal and health goals. However, because of their single status, unmarried folks have more time to focus on building a future that might indeed include not being single.

My favorite of the post-election emails circulating now is the amazing Alice Walker's letter to Obama, and this is my favorite part of it:"... you alone are not responsible for bringing the world back to balance. A primary responsibility that...

from Personal Coach David Bohl There’s a saying in recovery/treatment/12-step programs that goes: “TREAT THE DISEASE, not the symptoms.” What are the diseases causing your stress? The current economic “crisis”? The political race? The politics in your office? Your son’s report card? Making your next credit card payment? You hold the power.

Are you sick of listening to the candidates dance around when confronted by a mistake they made in their pasts? It appears politics is the hotbed of verbal antics. No one seems to realize the power of honesty. You are only as good as your word. No one will believe or trust you if you play verbal games.

Don’t know what the Presidential candidates stand for? With all the rhetoric– and misrepresentations and omissions of fact that you’re hearing from both candidates, it’s tough to tell what their real beliefs are. Not to mention the fact that the press/media is being accused of being on Obama’s side.

No WAY! Though you might believe otherwise from the news coverage and mass hysteria, the world is not coming to an end. The Financial “Crisis” will make it more difficult for those with not so perfect credit to get loans, but it really shouldn’t affect your day to day life.

by David Bohl, Lifestyle Redesign Expert As I watch the U.S. presidential campaigns — complete with polls, interviews, focus groups, and pundits — it occurs to me that each candidate’s basic message has been lost.