by Motivated Magazine | Aug 26, 2011 | Reflect
As the Salama Shield drama group gyrates, the beat of African drums escalates. A snake-line of young and old dancers dressed in bright green and red writhe past. Their sweat-soaked faces shine as they dance with the joyful message of, “Hope with a Plan”. Minutes away...
by Motivated Magazine | Sep 22, 2010 | Reflect
I’m turning forty. I like to think of it as growing into forty. It doesn’t scare me or keep me awake at night. I don’t have fears of losing my hair, gaining weight or of ill health. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. As my hair thinned, I took a proactive measure and...
by Motivated Magazine | Sep 22, 2010 | Reflect
My story begins in a village in Vietnam…with a bomb and a photograph. Until June 8, 1972, the day napalm fell on Trang Bang, I was a happy child. I was nine years old; I knew nothing about war. My most serious injury had been scraping my knees when I fell off my...
by Motivated Magazine | Sep 17, 2010 | Reflect
Most of us don’t have our dreams handed to us on a silver platter by a man dressed in black. –But, I did. On the cusp of turning forty, I was presented with my dream, perfectly packaged and ready to open. Unfortunately, I needed to walk through fear and face my worst...
by Motivated Magazine | Sep 17, 2010 | Learn
In the early 1980s, I was working in the Boston area as a psychotherapist and conducting stress management seminars in corporate settings, health care, and for the U.S. Army. Time and again, I found that the most stressed out people I encountered, that is, the most...
