What can YOU learn from my condition?
By the time you read this I either will be in surgery or have completed it. This week’s post will bring you up to date. I am not telling you about how I am dealing with the cancer diagnosis because I think it is particularly interesting. I am telling you because I think that the way I am dealing with it might provide some useful lessons for you. It is possible for YOU to stop giving events meaning. It is possible for YOU to create a positive context for your life. It is possible for YOU to pretty much eliminate [...]
A new cancer diagnosis
Less than 48 hours ago I received a call from Jennifer Lucus, my oncologist. She had just received the results of a PET and CT scan that I had done Monday morning. I was convinced that she would tell me that I was fine, that there was no recurrence of the fourth stage metastatic colon cancer I had been diagnosed with in April of last year. I “knew” that I had been healed because colon cancer produces CEA antigens that can be measured in the blood, and my CEA level had been in the normal range for over seven months. [...]
“Reality” isn’t as clear-cut as it appears
Before you conclude that something that you didn’t want to have happened actually happened and now there’s nothing you can do about it, hold on for a moment because maybe it didn’t really happen. This statement might seem confusing so let me give you a few personal example. I promise it will be crystal clear by the time the post is over. I thought I saw that the flight had departed I was changing planes at an airport not too long ago and my first flight arrived late. As I ran to the gate for the connecting flight, I saw [...]
Help us to help businesses be more effective and change the world
Three years ago I had the idea for a new service to offer businesses that would radically change the thinking and behavior of its upper level managers and executives. Over the years, using the many revolutionary processes of The Lefkoe Method, we have helped problem employees get rid of dysfunctional behaviors. We have helped other employees who had great potential take on new behaviors that would make them even more valuable to the company. And we have helped management personnel become more innovative, more willing to take risks, more willing to allow contributions from all employees, less concerned with what [...]
