It is time to grow up…

As people do the 67 step coaching, it becomes obvious to me that they have a very small social circle of people who they can count on.

Yes, some people have family, but I would not count on family, or only family if I were you.

When you have no one to call who is happy to take your call, you go through bouts of loneliness, aloneness, and maybe even depression. Even if you are in a position to have a lot of students, like I do.

You can’t and should not call your students when you are lonely… that would be using them for something they didn’t sign up for.

When I look, all the friends I have are from some course, program, that was long enough for me to build a relationship. And when I say ‘build’ I mean blood sweat and tears…

After a certain age people are not set up to make new friends easily, but if you work hard enough, they will accept you and will relent.

Dale Carnegie’s famous book, How to win friends and influence people is absolutely accurate in that if you want to make a friend, make what you talk about, about them.

Being smart, or knowing a lot may work when you are young, but when you are at an age where you could have children, making them smart and appreciating what they know is a whole lot more effective in making someone like you… All…