When One Career Door Closes, Another Career Door Opens
Saturday, 09 August 2008
By Donald Mitchell

  Salespeople know that if you keep asking someone to buy something, they will eventually purchase. Does that hold for getting a job from an employer to gain a new career opportunity? I don't know of any successes with that method, but there is another way to be persistent that does work: Continually add skills and keep an eye out for career doors that are about to open.

Life is full of career uncertainties and surprises. You can tell that by checking to see how many youngsters who wanted to become television stars, professional athletes, doctors, firemen, and concert pianists actually did so. Most youngsters fail to appreciate the limitations of their choices at the time, and many change their minds about what they want to do when they learn more about the field that first attracted them.

I learned this lesson about career surprises from one of my best friends. Let's call him Jake. His father was a well-respected physician who practiced as a specialist in urology. My friend followed in his father's footsteps, actually taking over his father's practice.
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Intimate Relationships Are Changing: Evolution and the Urge for Wholeness
Friday, 08 August 2008
By Peri Enkin

  Over the past few years it has been my ongoing privilege to work with a growing number of couples. They seek me out for private mentoring and for support with the quality of intimacy in their relationships. Some are newly in love and just starting out on their shared journey together. Others are long-term couples. Now, one or the other or both has found themselves at a crossroads. Regardless of the length of time that couples have been together there seem to be a few central underlying themes to the challenges we all face when it comes to being intimate with another human being.

My own relationship journey has inspired me to undertake a very personal study of what it really takes to achieve genuine intimacy. It is such a foundational human longing - the desire for connection and companionship- that it appears on the radar screen often whenever we set our hopes on a fulfilling lifestyle.

Who among us does not want to love and be loved?

While I regularly travel to study with teachers in the relationship field, it is
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