Tag: Setting Boundaries
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, many folks are feeling the pressure to illustrate their devotion with their pocketbook and plan the perfect gift, evening out or surprise. My preference might be a lovely little box of salted dark chocolate caramels. But billions of dollars are spent each year in an attempt, often unsuccessfully, to fulfill expectations of loved ones. And therein lies the rub. One such reader wrote to me last week in distress about the pressure and expectations, a word on The Inner Bottom Line that spells trouble, because all expectations ever do is set us up for [ Read More ]
During my January 22nd blogtalkradio.com show, I commented on a headline I had read earlier that day about some GOP leaders who were “disappointed” in President Obama’s second Inaugural Address. Why, you ask? Well, according to one of the many sources, the right-leaning Wall Street Journal, the President, in their view, didn’t offer them “an olive branch.” Really? Then today, with the story still spinning madly in the media, the incredibly disappointing and somewhat disjointed Senator McCain, who has exhibited a nearly unbroken stream of vitriol and disapproval at all things Obama and Democratic since he lost his own run [ Read More ]
The Inner Bottom Line® operates from the premise that the value of our lives is determined by the choices we make. Every moment of our lives is filled with hundreds of choices, from small, trivial ones like “what should I wear, do I want a blueberry or walnut muffin, or which street should I take” to momentous moments such as “what I should I say when I get there or do I stay in this relationship or bail?” Given the pressure and desire to make the best possible choice, it can sometimes seem overwhelming to tackle, and too much pondering can [ Read More ]
Welcome back to The Inner Bottom Line®, brought to you by Personal Best®. Today, we formally began building the platform for our new radio show, The Inner Bottom Line, on blogtalkradio.com and we hope to be on air in the next two weeks. We’ve even booked our first guest for the show, and we’re incredibly excited about all the things we’re going to get to talk about with you, so stay in touch as the details of that announcement will be coming next week. As the show takes form, it guides us on designing this site to offer you the most [ Read More ]
Welcome back to The Inner Bottom Line®, brought to you by Personal Best®. We’re continuing to work hard to refine our focus and build you a site that incorporates the most effective tools and resources that will help you run your life and your business more successfully and profitably as well as update your core values, make better choices in your busy life, create a current Short List so that you’re always Playing With a Full Deck, and cope effectively with killer stress and those every-day ethical dilemmas and choices that are bound to keep you up at night. If you’re anything like [ Read More ]
Welcome back to What’s Keeping You Awake At Night?, brought to you by The Inner Bottom Line® and Personal Best®. As you can see, we’re adding new features and improving WKYAAN every day so we can better help you incorporate your core values to make better choices in your busy lives, assure you have a current Short List so that you’re Playing With a Full Deck, and cope effectively with killer stress and those every-day ethical dilemmas and choices that keep us all up at night. When faced with a driving-me-crazy problem or person, nothing can help more than a few [ Read More ]