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Change Is Gonna Come (to Dr. K’s Blogging Schedule)

September 30, 2009

That means Dr. K’s blog is more than two years old! I’ve already got close to 500 posts up, after maintaining a posting rate of three posts a week for virtually the entire duration of the blog. There are currently 777 comments on the blog, and I’ve appreciated every one of them, along with the email I’ve received the twitter and facebook responses I get regarding my posts.

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60 Years Old? Young? So Far, So Good… It’s my birthday and I’ll blog if I want to.

September 27, 2009

I know that the world has appeared to be coming to an end since it’s very beginning, and that things are actually getting better while they appear to be getting worse. I know it’s always darker before the dawn, and that my feelings serve me and empower me if I simply honor them.

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Building Relationship On Agreements (repost)

August 14, 2009

Every semester, the students change but the questions I hear remain the same. Where am I coming from with these agreements? Why do I think it so important to the well being of these students that I’m willing to spend precious time on it, time that I could just as well put into teaching other things that might be valuable for my students? What justifies the use of so much class time for these agreements?

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Top Ten Interpersonal Skills -1- Useful Assumptions

July 29, 2009

The role that our assumptions play in communication success is fundamental. And the challenge with assumptions is to make useful ones rather than limiting ones. A useful assumption gives you enough informed perspective on your own behavior and the behavior of others that you can engage in behaviors that lead to worthwhile outcomes.

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What About Happiness, Feeling Good and Fulfillment?

May 8, 2009

So there’s satisfaction looking back at values fulfilled through experience, and there’s the happiness of being in the moment and the moment lines up, and there’s the happiness of looking into the future and believing in your dreams for it.

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What Do You Know About Fulfillment, Happiness and Feeling Good

May 6, 2009

What do I know about the difference between fulfillment, happiness and feeling good? If experience counts, I must know at least a little something about each of them!

About 15 years ago I made a video and audio program titled “The Happiness of Pursuit,” (so long before the Will Smith movie, Happyness of Pursuit) in which I made the claim that happiness in this moment leads to a more fulfilling pursuit in life, whereas pursuing happiness means it places finding it on variables outside your control

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How Saying NO to the fear is Saying YES to the FUTURE!

May 1, 2009

The audacity of hope is just what we need right now. Audacity indeed. The word means fearless daring, a bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention. That’s exactly what is needed in these early days of spring, 2009. Because convention isn’t working, propriety is an illusion, and prudence got tossed out the window by the scalliwags who made off with our national wealth, reputation and ideals long before Obama came to power.

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Dealing With Your Cynical Self

March 27, 2009

Continuing on in our exploration of cynicism, today’s post is about how to understand and deal with it in yourself, so that it doesn’t stop you from making positive change, or playing your part in changing your world for the better.

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