Challenges in Virtual Communication
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Bill Cottringer
“Texting is a brilliant way to miscommunicate how you feel and misinterpret what other people mean.” ~Anonymous.
Face to face (f2f) communication itself has many challenges but communicating in the new virtual world surrounding ... Views: 476
Spiritual Intelligence
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Bill Cottringer
“Spiritual Intelligence is seeing past what you are looking at; or better yet, it is seeing the unseeable and knowing the unknown.”
The evolution of human intelligence involves using whole-brained intelligence, which is the blending all of ... Views: 445
The four Crucibles of Success
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Bill Cottringer
“The ‘luck’ of success is when your talents and efforts meet the right opportunity to apply them.” ~Anonymous.
There are four crucibles to success: Purpose, Perspective, Principles, and Passion. No substantial, long-range success ... Views: 489
Repairing Virtual Communication failures
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Bill Cottringer
“In a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.” ~Kenneth H. Blanchard.
Live, face-to-face (f2f) communication has always been difficult, unfortunately with ... Views: 373
Two Serious Problems We were Warned About in 1970
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Bill Cottringer
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything” ~George Bernard Shaw.
Are you feeling overwhelmed about the information overload and insane pace of technology ... Views: 413
7 Pillars of Character Power
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Bill Cottringer
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
~ John Wooden.
1. Openness.
I once commented on the importance ... Views: 442
The ABC’s of Success in Anything & Everything
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Bill Cottringer
“How much or how little you have of something, depends mostly on how you define that something.” ~The Author.
If you want to be abundantly successful by any definition, all you need to do is practice the ABCs ... Views: 492
The Truth Will Set You Free2 (John 8: 31-32)
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Bill Cottringer
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” ~David Foster Wallace, author.
From my research, there seem to be two main opposing sources for interpreting the true literal and the intriguing ... Views: 508
Small Thinking Can’t Solve Big Problems
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Bill Cottringer
“Logical, intellectual thinking can prove or disprove relative beliefs and at best most of these turn out to be half-truths which are not worth clinging to. But only whole-brained rational and spiritual intelligence combined can ... Views: 649
The Truth Shall Set You Free
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Bill Cottringer
“The beautiful irony about the truth is that it hates dark places. It despises being hidden. It loves the limelight, and it always forces itself out.” ~Mitta Xinindlu.
From my research, there seem to be two main opposing sources for ... Views: 540
Some Uncommon Sense We Should Teach in Schools?
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Bill Cottringer
“Common sense is the simple knack of seeing something as it is and doing something as it should be done.” ~Mark Twain.
During my last seven decades of living, I accidentally stumbled upon some uncommon sense which I ... Views: 499
Divide and Conquer
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Bill Cottringer
“Divide and rule, the politician cries; Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gedichte.
In war, the divide and conquer rule has always gotten the expected results. Ironically though, this same principle can also ... Views: 510
Commonsense Solutions to Our Three Main Conflicts
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Bill Cottringer
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” ~Eugene Ionesco.
To help identify the source that drives our three main conflicts, I am taking the liberty of expanding the meaning of the ... Views: 482
Ten Life Lessons You Can Only Learn the Hard Way
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Bill Cottringer
“Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning, anyone can start over and make a new ending.” ~ Chico Xavier.
Here are ten valuable lessons about life that lead to success and happiness. Unfortunately this ... Views: 484
Today’s Primary Problem: Commonplace Evil
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Bill Cottringer
“The way in which you define something has a lot to do with how much or how little of the thing you have in hand, both quantity and quality.” ~The Author.
Such is the case with the greatly misunderstood term evil. ... Views: 476
Benefits & Callenges of Diversity
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Bill Cottringer
“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi.
The rest of the workforce diversity story is unfolding as every great social change brings sometimes unexpected ... Views: 549
Looking for Greener Pastures
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Bill Cottringer
“The grass on the other side of the fence isn’t always greener. Sometimes it is just a different shade of brown and other times it comes with unwanted weeds and underground pests. ~The Author.
Having played fierce musical chairs for ... Views: 727
Writing Options
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Bill Cottringer
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ~Ernest Hemingway.
Writing is both an art and science involving both the right and left hemispheres of the brain, including the thinking and feeling brain functions. ... Views: 531
Job-Getting Reminder Tips
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Bill Cottringer
Although the post-pandemic job market is starting to lean toward favoring employees over employers, it is still a difficult challenge to find the right job today. Success requires some serious preparatory work in the following three areas, ... Views: 630
The Three Core Conflicts
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Bill Cottringer
“Unresolved conflicts usually return as noisier versions with more intensity, vengeance and difficulty.” ~The author.
There are three core conflicts for humans: (1) Us vs. life (2) Us vs. others, and (3) Us vs. ourselves. We all ... Views: 612
Time: The Ultimate Yin-Yang Urstoff
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Bill Cottringer
“The hidden portal to real time is the precise now moment of when the past and future collide into the present.” ~The author.
To see true time,
You need double vision,
One eye for convention
The other for imagination.
First ... Views: 596
Managing Success for a Better Destiny
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Bill Cottringer
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” ~Tony Robbins.
May needless failures start with the illusion of being able to control even the uncontrollable things, and end with the frustration and ... Views: 466
ARE YOU LUCKY OR UNLUCKY?
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Bill Cottringer
“Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.” ~Eliyahu Goldratt.
Are you lucky or unlucky? I suppose how you answer this question depends upon how you define “luck.” The ... Views: 548
The ABC’s of Success
By
Bill Cottringer
“Success is what you do to get what you consider to be a success.” ~The Author.
The only “luck” that is involved with success comes from two sources: (a) You are lucky enough to be among the few to be born into an established success ... Views: 517
SEVEN VERBS TO DEFEAT ANGER
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Bill Cottringer
“Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” ~Ambrose Bierce.
Anger is a strong, unpleasant feeling you usually get when someone else, something else or you yourself, may be getting in the way of ... Views: 831
Ten useful Suggestions on Improving the Quality of Your Life
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Bill Cottringer
“Our egos are utterly convinced that ‘quality of life’ is found in the ‘domineering of life.’ And a very simple way to effectively destroy the whole of your life is to live by this for the smallest part of your ... Views: 456
Seven Sure Paths to Self-Actualization
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Bill Cottringer
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~Theodore Roosevelt.
There is common consensus that the goal of personal development is to learn, grow and improve into your best self—self-actualization as Abraham Maslow ... Views: 427
Psychology for Dummies (Like Me & You)
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Bill Cottringer
“Common sense is the simple knack of seeing things the way they are and doing things the way they need to be done.” ~ Mark Twain.
1. Most of what we think we know really isn’t so, whether we like that reality or not because it ... Views: 641
We Are Alike & We Are Different
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Bill Cottringer
“It is a darn shame that we spend so much time arguing and being annoyed with our differences, and not enough time understanding and celebrating them.” ~The Author.
An important insight to apply for success is knowing the ... Views: 661
Hopelessness: The Only Real Enemy Worth Defeating
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Bill Cottringer
“Hopelessness is a feeling. It's not a fact.” ~Anohni
Hopelessness is the main cause of all the world’s problems and hope is the only real antidote. Thank heavens for the reality of the quote above, that ... Views: 579
Beating the COVD Holiday Blues
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Bill Cottringer
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness during this holiday season.” ~Helen Keller
This year the normal holiday spirit may be dampened by ... Views: 778
What’s Behind the Curtain of the Political Divide in America?
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Bill Cottringer
“We divided ourselves among caste, creed, culture and countries but what is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love.” ~Santosh Kalwar.
Don’t be fooled into believing the divide in ... Views: 878
Healing the Divide: A Few Partial Solutions Worth Considering.
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Bill Cottringer
“Until we can reconcile mind and matter as just being different sides of the same coin, dualistic thinking will continue to take things apart rather than put them back together where they belong. ~ The ... Views: 782
The Trouble with Beliefs
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Bill Cottringer
“Man is what he believes. ~ Anton Chekhov.
The main trouble with beliefs is that people take them, along with themselves and the certainty of their beliefs being true, too seriously. The other half of that problem is that it is a belief ... Views: 755
Accidental vs. Intentional Careers
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Bill Cottringer
“Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.” ... Views: 642
The Three Main Highways to Success
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Bill Cottringer
“Knowing how to succeed is the easy part. The hard part is in translating your desire into hard work and maintaining perseverance through inevitable setbacks.” ~ The Author.
If you do a Google search on “success” there are ... Views: 679
Various Versions of Happiness
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Bill Cottringer
“Happiness is what you do to stumble upon it.” ~The Author.
The pursuit of happiness is something we all engage in, to some degree or another. And the last I heard, it is still an inalienable constitutional right of Americans and ... Views: 831
Developing Emotional Intelligence
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Bill Cottringer
“Having both intellectual intelligence (IQ) and emotional intelligence (EQ) is necessary to be successful. What you lack in IQ points, you can make up for by having emotional intelligence.” ~The author.
I know the above quote is ... Views: 859
Leadership Skills
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Bill Cottringer
If your want to be a leader, feel free to test your potential against this self-assessment instrument. And if you are already a leader, you can assess the level of leadership skills you have achieved and the ones still needing some work. The scoring ... Views: 883
The Dynamics of Dishonesty
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Bill Cottringer
“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne.
One of the most important ingredients in any relationship is trust. Trust is enhanced by honesty, while dishonesty is a hungry termite that ... Views: 1044
A VERY ANNOYING HABIT
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Bill Cottringer
“I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.”
~Jane Wagner.
What could anyone complain about regarding this beautiful day? Oh, I imagine we can find something: The inconvenient travel and other ... Views: 830
The Only Two Ways to Heal the Divide
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Bill Cottringer
“Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
There is no denying that we have a great Divide going on in our country, that has reached the point of begging ... Views: 767
BECOMING YOUR BEST SELF
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Bill Cottringer
“Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true strength.” ~Lao Tzu.
An earlier Psychologist, Abraham Maslow, proposed a hierarchy of needs that all people had a ... Views: 752
Developing a Winning Success Style
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Bill Cottringer
“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.” ~ Paul Brown.
A person can generally be a winner with a big dream, solid game plan on translating the dream into reality, a good character with which to do that, a lot of hard ... Views: 683
Good Sense About Getting Along with Others During Troubled Times
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Bill Cottringer
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” ~Theodore Roosevelt.
Despite the physical 6-foot rule of social distancing keeping us apart, ... Views: 692
Psychological Power Points of Effective Writing
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Bill Cottringer
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” ~Virginia Woolf.
Earlier on in my prison administration career, a colleague, Herb Gross, ... Views: 967
Communicating with Today’s Workforce
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Bill Cottringer
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.” ~Peter F. Drucker.
In managing a wide variety of workforces for nearly six decades now—private and public settings and large and small organizations ... Views: 1014
Good People, Bad Ethics
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Bill Cottringer
“In my college ethics class, someone stole my textbook and I thought that was rather ironic.” ~The author.
In the section on ethics which I teach in criminal justice classes, I define ethical behavior as, “The ideal standard of what is ... Views: 1084
A Prescription for Resolving Interpersonal Conflicts
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Bill Cottringer
“All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?” ~Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies.
We all get stuck in messy emotional interpersonal conflicts with others from ... Views: 1102