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Recent Posts
- Bowing to the Shark
- Holiday Harmony: 4 tips for Holding Boundaries and Setting Limits with Santa’s More Challenging Elves
- Difficult People Make for Hard Times: 5 Keys to Managing the Stress of Challenging Relationships
- “To Keep All Safe ‘til My Return”: The Importance of Mentoring
- Defending North Fork
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Author Archives: Bob Caffrey
Bowing to the Shark
Someone once said, “It’s not when my problems come one at a time that I have difficulty. It’s when they travel in a pack that things get out of hand!” Challenges test us. There is no doubt about it. How … Continue reading
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Holiday Harmony: 4 tips for Holding Boundaries and Setting Limits with Santa’s More Challenging Elves
Holidays are often times of both great joy and challenge. What we are most often seeking is “harmony,” a balance between our wishes, needs, expectations and those of the people in our lives we celebrate with. It can also be … Continue reading
Difficult People Make for Hard Times: 5 Keys to Managing the Stress of Challenging Relationships
We all have them; those people in our lives that seem to stress us out all the time. Bosses, partners, spouses, family, co-workers, look around and you’ll find one. They seem to be energy magnets; whatever energy we have is … Continue reading
“To Keep All Safe ‘til My Return”: The Importance of Mentoring
As told in Homer’s “Odyssey,” when the Ithacan King Odysseus was called upon to join the Greek armies in their battle with Troy, he was obligated to leave both his kingdom and his new born son, Telemachus. He didn’t know when, … Continue reading
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Defending North Fork
One of the things we are compelled to confront daily is the ever evolving role of men in our culture. As we try to come to grips with who we are and who we would like to be, we run … Continue reading
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Leaning Forward: 4 Principles to Handling Adversity and Using it to Develop Inner Strength
Our nervous systems crave predictability and consistent responses from our environments. This is often why we look to bad habits, certain unhealthy foods, alcohol or sometimes even drugs to give our nervous system the relief that it seeks from dealing … Continue reading
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Letting Go: Choosing Why to Forgive or When to Hang On
It often seems that it’s when we are the most hurt by the acts of others that “just moving on” feels almost impossible. Part of us wants to “let go,” but a seemingly equal part just can’t. The harm may … Continue reading
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Creating Happiness: 4 Principles for Charting Your Course to a Happier Life.
The words we use say so much about how we view ourselves and our world. For example, how many of us are always “searching” for happiness? How many of us just “hope to find it” someday? On the other hand, … Continue reading
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Book Review: “The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Delta Force Commander,” by LTC (ret.) Peter Blaber
Life’s lessons can be learned in many different environments. As a former member of the U.S. Army’s elite counter terrorism unit, known as the “Delta” force, LTC Peter Blaber learned these lessons where the margin for error was virtually non-existent, … Continue reading
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Finding Center: 6 Steps to Promoting Harmony and Developing Gratitude in Hard Times
It seems like challenge and difficulty can be found around every corner these days, especially when we believe that “hard times” are all that there is that awaits us. We struggle, we worry, we get angry, and we feel like … Continue reading
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