TAKERS AND GIVERS

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ I am not going to say, “There are two kinds of people …” and then set up a polarization. But I will re-iterate a basic principle in Self-Actualization Psychology and say this, “There are two levels […]

BEYOND PRO/CON DECISION MAKING

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ In Meta-Coaching we use the Axes of Change as our first and primary model for enabling people to make intelligent, robust, and ecological decisions. Specifically, we use the second axis, The Decision Axis which is based […]

THE THREE MAGIC WORDS OF RESILIENCE

By Shawn Dwyer and Dr.L.Michael Hall There are three magic words that conveys the inner spirit of resilience. I stumbled onto them in reading Martin Seligman’s work on Learned Helplessness and then on Learned Optimism. In his books he tells the story of moving from […]

PSEUDO-DECISIONS

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Pseudo-Decisions There are decisions and then there are things which pass for “decisions” yet which are not real decisions. They are pseudo-decisions. They often and usually seem like a decision in some respects, but actually they […]

GIVING IT YOUR ALL!

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Do You Give It Your All? You hear it all the time- “Give it your all!” “Go for the gold.” “Second place is for losers.” “You’ve got to be a 110% person.” Even book titles argue […]

LUCKY DECISIONS

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ In some decisions you are lucky- very lucky. To discover this think about a decision that you made which turned out really great. In fact, repeat this several times reflecting on different decisions that you made […]

UNBIASED DECISION-MAKING

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ If you and I are going to make great decisions, there’s another requirement. Namely, making decisions that are unbiased. Yet in saying that we now have a problem. The problem is that we all are so […]

PAUSING TO DECIDE

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ I started out the day intent on counting the total number of decisions that I tyically make within the time frame of one day. My first decision occurred when I sensed morning light coming into the […]

limiting belief

Childhood Perception Part 1 – Limiting Beliefs Written by Shawn Dwyer at The Coaching Centre Limiting beliefs involve the specific cognitive style of processing information. When unconscious parts form or limiting beliefs originate, they result from the brain operating in certain ways. These parts, or […]

What is resilience?

The Art and Science for Effectively Mastering Adversity We need resilience because we live in a world where things can and do go wrong, where things knock us down, where expectations are violated, where the rules of the game can completely change, where hurtful things […]