Everyone comes with baggage; roads traveled, tears cried, and scars of recent and distant past. But we also come with gifts, strengths, and dreams. Don’t let your “once was” dictate your “to be.” Write the ticket. Then go! –Dr. Robyn Silverman, from Creating a Community of Character, Keynote presentation Tabula rasa is dead. And it’s [...]
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We all have a voice inside our heads that tries desperately to halt progress and resist change. Most of these voices stem from fear– fear of progress, fear of change, and fear of not being good enough. The voices can be powerful– whisper or yell until it gets its way or drive us nuts trying. [...]
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Many of us are thinking about new goals and new years resolutions as we get ready to delve full throttle into 2010. Yes, it’s the New Year and the New Year brings all kinds of promises in the form of New Years Resolutions 2010. How many of us keep them? We know that writing down [...]
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Did you catch The Tyra Show Halloween special? This was a fun show…check out this clip where I helped Caitlyn (along with Top Model, Toccara!) overcome her fear of all things Halloween as she conquered Blood Manner in NYC. The courage technique I used with Caitlyn which I created for my coaching clients, is called [...]
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Stuck, Stagnant and Stymied: Redefining your Who, What, Where, When, and Why for 2009 Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman Where did the time go? Didn’t we have definite plans for 2008? Goals? We were going to get to it. But alas, we didn’t. And now it’s January…2009. My gosh, we waste a lot of time. Procrastination [...]
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Quick Tips on Teaching respect to children By: Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman I remember reading an issue of Family Fun Magazine in which behavior specialist Jan Faull asks, “How will the child learn respect if you don’t teach it, expect it and model it yourself?” Good point. I recently was coaching a parent who told [...]
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