Posts by Grammy Mo

Today is the birth date of the late Dr. Willam Glasser, world -renowned psychiatrist who believed in working with people to develop better relationships. I am honoring him today by speaking into some of the things I have learned from him. First, I met him and his work in the mid 1980’s when I was working with youth and I wanted to find some tools to help the youth who seemed to have so many problems. Little did I know that when I studied his ideas that it would have such a profound effect on me! He taught me that…

The other I stumbled upon an article about unpacking relationship baggage.  As I read the article I could not help but notice how negative it seemed. You see when one carries relationship baggage the baggage is negative from the point of view that there are unhappy memories about past relationships. As I pondered that, I wondered, would it not be more worthwhile if we could empower others to dump the baggage before the next relationship. Could it be better to have a clear picture of what a great relationship could look like? Then my quirky mind took me to actually…

A Miserable Workplace A lot of people are talking about happiness these days. Is there something wrong with a happy workplace? I do not know how many times in my lifelong career of working with people I have heard them say: “ I just want to be happy!”   What is happy for you? I have a definition of happiness for me. I know what it takes for me to feel happy. I have pictures in my head that if I were to achieve them I believe I would be happy. But when people say they want to be happy, I…

Here in Eastern Canada it is time to start thinking about changing the tires on our cars. Many of us have tires for winter driving and tires for summer driving. In order to do this you need to do some planning. We generally get our tires out and make an appointment to go get them changed.  Some do this for themselves but not me. This is one job I choose to hire out.  We need to decide the timing of such an event. Is it going to snow again soon? Will you risk changing them sooner? Will you wait and…