Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison Dying well is a right and responsibility of everyone. It is also an inevitability for everyone. Why then do we struggle in our efforts to deny this and make every awkward effort to avoid it? It is said that we should die a little every day. It is said that children deal with it better than adults. Why then do we seem so surprised and uncomfortable with this aspect of a ‘great life’? Why do some see it as a solution to their...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison I love my enthusiasm for “what’s next”!? And then I marvel at my surprise and dismay for what follows, forgetting that the goal is never the goal… even though this is a discovery I made and for which I coined the phrase – the goal is never the goal – many years ago. The latest ‘surprise’ was in registering for an online course for Addictions and Beyond Kundalini Yoga. When the trainer asked me what addictions I wanted to...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison How do we reconcile the difficulty of being a diaspora versus our nature as mobile creatures – nomads by nature and as such learn best when ‘in movement”? When the familiar is radically displaced because of violence versus the transformative experience of exchanging comfort zones for the unfamiliar and building our comfort quotient with failure – the unpredictable? “Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison For years, and with increased intensity in the past few months, there has been a swelling tide of people migrating from their home country with interesting reactions and responses from nations around the world. Last week – the first week of September, there was a Turning Point when the picture of a small, drowned child – 3 years old – washed up on a shore, flooded the media, and, awakening consciousness riveted the world. What...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison Working with material from Mike Dooley, we will “learn how to focus your thoughts, choose your words, and decide upon the physical steps you need to take in order to achieve the changes you desire”. Turning Point – a GPS for Success will explore success elements, the role of stability, and the learn-able navigational skills and practices that can help us on the journey of the life of a business and the business of a life. We...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison My fascination and enthusiasm for life continues to grow –no matter what’s happening…stretching my heart open for longer and longer periods of time…and feel vulnerable without being victimized…hold my boundaries without being resentful, or beating myself up afterwards…kick up my heels and dance around like a fool…then revel in those moments of deep peace…and ”go back to grazing”. Life is a river flowing through us…what if we...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison Turning Point – a GPS for Success will explore success elements, the role of stability, and the learn-able navigational skills and practices that can help us on the journey of the life of a business and the business of a life. We look at what is “It” that keeps us running harder & faster, relentless in the pursuit thereof – the “It” factor? Why is it that we get smarter with technology, connect more broadly with Social...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison Whereas last week we visited the power of mindfulness, commitment, and questions. This week we will further embrace the focus on mindfulness, questions, and letting go of attachments; commitments notwithstanding. “Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison…widening our circle…in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.” P 255, Mindsight, The New Science of Personal Transformation”, Daniel...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison “A lack of self-awareness or critical insight, or the presence of ambivalence or uncertainty about values, can lead to a less rational attitude to choices, and ultimately to undesirable behaviours.” ---NZ Govt. …a look at revisiting the values of 1) Know Thyself and 2) articulating your values. www.judithlharrison.com

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison Have you, or anyone you know, ever found yourself cornered by or resistant to making a commitment? Are you aware of what drives you and your life choices? Does it matter? Lets have a look at the framework required to give magic, genius, power back to you and your life. www.judithlharrison.com

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison Having been clinically trained and practicing as a psychotherapist over the past twenty plus years, I thought I had a pretty good handle on the constituents of ‘on being human’… but it was just one more box I had crawled into and now get to bust out from.   Questioning Perspective: Are you and individual first and then a relationship? Or, are you a relationship first and then an individual? Come on over and have a listen.  ...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison Over the past three weeks we have been cruising the waters of personalities, having stopped in the “D”, the “I”, the “S” ports of call, arriving now at The “C” of the personality seas. If ever we are to embark on a well thought our journey, we would not want o leave home without our detail-compliant and ever correct “C”. However, have you ever wondered why a certain someone is ‘driving you crazy’ with their endless questions,...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison Are You Being “Suckered” by Your Best Trait? As we cruise through the fascination of various unique personality ‘ports of call’, we arrive at the soothing, soft “South Sea” waters disembarking at the “S” port of call. Our fair weather “S” folks are sweet, steady, stable – in short the glue of all groups, families and organizations. However, they could be thought of as an endangered species… Come to this Port and hear more as...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison OHHH – THE HEADY AROMA OF OUR SANGUINE TEMPERAMENT! This “character” is said to be Inspirational, Impressive, Influencing – they spend a great deal of their effervescence going ‘over the top’. Fun to be around and yet possibly exhausting and perhaps even a little annoying at times with their “excessive happiness” – ask my husband…J They are fun to be around and you won’t want to miss this ‘port of call’. Invite your friends...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success  with Host Judith L. Harrison AHHH – OUR BELOVED “D’S” THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ‘GET ‘ER DONE’ AND WHO DIE FIRST… ROHM SAYS WE GIVE THANKS FOR OUR WONDERFUL “D’s” because without them nothing would ever get done. They are drivers and doers. And, says Dr. Rohm, they die first because if they don’t learn counterpoints, they wear themselves out with so much nervous energy. This might even be you? Come on board and DISCover more about this wonderful and...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison TODAY we begin our CRUISE through “Positive Personality Profiles”. “Anyone knows that you should approach certain animals differently, and treat them differently, based on what you know about them. The same is true about people. But, you say, aren’t we all more or less the same? AHA – alas, this is where we go awry and things go amok. We are left feeling bruised, confused, and possibly even have been cause in the matter of...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison “NO ONE IS SO GOOD THAT HE HAS NO BAD IN HIM, AND NO ONE IS SO BAD THAT HE HAS NO GOOD IN HIM.” ---NAPOLEON HILL In the time of Christopher Columbus the prevailing belief was that the world was flat, this belief, universally held to be factually true became the (I don’t know what I don’t know) context for all manner of thinking, deciding, and behaving. The same can be said of humans in how we hold certain limiting beliefs of...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison To be successful in life – like any game to which we are committed to win at - we all need a detailed plan or set of instructions to guide us in getting from where we are to where we want to go. And, even if you consider yourself to have achieved success already, you still need to continue your success education and evolutionarily journey. It is where you find your juice for sustainability in an ever-changing world. To grow...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison Of course, many will recognize this show title as the title of a bestseller by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph. D. A mentor once told me I had to learn to love being out of control. This was shocking wisdom coming from a highly organized and self-disciplined individual guiding me on how to build a successful business. That sounded like a catastrophe to me… But, I think that first we get to learn from our stress and secondly, to know how to...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison To be successful in life – like any game we play with commitment – we all need a detailed plan or set of instructions to guide us in getting from where we are to where we want to go…and, in fact to even determine where DO we want to go! And, if you consider yourself to have achieved success already, you still need to revise and revivify your success education. If you are walking, talking, breathing… there is more to do and...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison Ever bother to really wonder at whence ‘the moody blues’? Usually we are more likely to criticize or judge another – or even ourselves – for our moodiness. We are programmed to think that we should be nice, pleasant, thoughtful of others and so on. But what about the vicissitudes of our emotions? If we have emotions and responses, wouldn’t we be well served to check them out as wonderful guideposts?! Psychiatrist Julie...

Judith believes people are designed and meant to thrive, living a path of personal Greatness, joy, and satisfaction. She has dedicated her life to helping people close the gap & clear the clutter between where they are in life and where  they want to be.  “By capturing the very essence of DaVinci’s life and genius – the seemingly perfect imagination of mind, body, spirit, and soul - …a discovery and understanding of the boundlessness of our own full human potential.” This is from the back...

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison “Life is a marathon. Fortunately, running is good for your heart, good for your body, good for your lungs. Yet it’s where you’re running to – and why – which, in the end, will determine whether you win this race or not.” The Art of Life, Joan Chittister This quote sets the pace and context for a look at living life well and why looking at the elements that contribute to winning this race matters. www.judithlharrison.com

Turning Point- a GPS for your Success with Host Judith L. Harrison Today we will explore the art of listening and the challenges to effective and persuasive communication… How do we listen? Why listen? How is Leadership empowered by the quality of our capacity to listen as a tool for “winning ways” in the business of life. What is leadership and what is NOT leadership. Care to listen? www.judithlharrison.com