yes, and…Power-of-AND

One of the most under-appreciated words in the English language is the word ‘and,’ that tiny little con-junction or 3-letter joining word. Coke Zero ran an intriguing ad that is rich and instructive about how to use ‘and’ constructively for...

The Tipping Point of Change

In his 2000 best seller, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell defined the tipping point as, “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.” For the most part, Gladwell was examining sweeping...

Evoking transformation

To evoke is to summon or elicit or conjure or stimulate or arouse – all of these senses or synonyms of the word evoke reveal what doing Motivational Interviewing (MI) intends. Miller and Rollnick, the founders of Motivational Interviewing, talk about evoking...

Skeletons Dancing, Screens Changing

At this website’s blog postings, we have discussed the importance of perception, perspectives, and really, truly seeing life-situations differently than that to which we are accustomed. We are and we experience what we believe; we shape what we expect; we create...