Articles Written by Dianne

(Watch out for the guilt hustlers!) What would you do without the use of guilt? How would you motivate your employees, employers, spouses, kids, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, the checker in the store, the person you may complain to about a bad service? What power would you have if you did not use guilt as a tool to get what you want? How would you motivate others or feel empowered to be the person you are?  I know you’ve all heard the following comments a million times in

Kids and Christmas When my four brothers and I were very young, we learned something about the true meaning of Christmas. On a December day, my dad loaded our whole family into our VW bus and we headed to Lake Arrowhead to spend a few days. We had the pleasure of staying at a friend’s log cabin in the mountains. It was so much fun with a huge fire roaring, snow falling outside, and my brothers and I running up and down the stairs, sledding in the yard, and throwing snowbal

Do you believe if you allowed your children to have a healthy freedom, they would learn just about everything they would ever need to know on their own? I do, and I call it discovery! If you live in fear your children are not learning or are not the smartest or most athletic and think that if you pressure them and help them to be better than everyone in their class, you will assure the perfect outcome for them—well, think again! You have just bought into the biggest and mos

October 8, 2009 Did you start out in life being a carefree, fun-loving kid, kind of like a wild animal with a lot freedom to discover, explore and become the ultimate adventurer? Life was so good when you were three or four years old, and then one day, when you were about five years old, you were swept up by a parent and taken to a big, brick building and left there alone for an entire day; and that was it, life ended as you knew it! Your freedom was turned into a sort of ens

Thursday, April 28, 2011 Just imagine a thriving American economy, full of happy business owners on the constant lookout for great employees! Imagine kids, instead of standing on street corners looking for trouble, standing in line for their business licenses. And imagine what the attitude of our country would be if the school system looked at our kids as potential leaders instead of as potential losers. We would wake up in the morning full of vision, dreams and ideas, and ou