Articles by Peter Vajda

Authenticity

Ego, Work and Relationships
Identity - Who do You Take Yourself to Be?
Why We're Afraid to Speak Up
Why Being Authentic is Difficult
Why Being Transparent Can Be Challenging

Blogging

Blogging, Negativity and Incivility

Career and employment

Consider a New Career in Tough Times
Dissatisfied With Work? Perhaps It's You
Facing Challenging Times - Worry is not a Requirement
Integrity At Work - How Do You Show Up?

Change

Allowing - The Truth About Change
Hanging On for Dear Life
Sandpaper - The Secret Tool of change
This Week is Last Week's "Next Week"
The Economy and Your Quality of Life
The Times They are a-Changin'
Why Change Triggers a Fear of Dying
You Can't Tell Folks to Change, Period!

Coaching

9 Guidelines For Spiritual Coaching

Conflict

Constructive Conflict Benefits
Know Thyself and Workplace Conflict

Dating

Dating Red Flag #1: Blaming Others When Things Go Wrong
Dating Red Flag #2: Spends an Inordinate Amount of Time on Friends, Hobbies, Sports, or Work

Employee Engagement

The Thrill is Gone - When Employees Disengage

Ethics in the Workplace

A Culture of Fear......and the Antidote
Betrayal - The Ultimate Trust-Buster
Colluding at Work
Confucius and Decency at Work
Don't Trust Me Because - I Don't Trust Me
Integrity at Work - How Do You Stack Up?
Integrity, Trust and Agreements at Work
Lying at Work
Pointing Fingers
The Serious Side of Put-Down Humor
Trust In The Workplace - Why We Lie

Friendship

Loneliness and Friendship

Happiness

Happiness - Money vs. the Inner Journey
Why People Need to look Inside Themselves for Happiness

Holidays, Vacation and R&R

Holidays-Ho-Ho-Ho, or Ho-Hum?
Valentine's Day - Just Candy and Flowers?
What's up with Weisure? - The Real Need for R&R

Home-based business (entrepreneuring)

Your Home-Based Business - 5 Keys for Survival

Law of Attraction

The Secret - Is It Spiritual Materialism

Leadership

20 Guidelines for Failing
Challenging Questions for Independent Leaders
Consciousness, Unconsciousness and Leadership
So You Think You Can......... Lead
Want to be an Extraordinary Leader?

Life Purpose

Have You Stopped Chiseling?
Mid-life -- A Turning Point for Many
Passion and Purpose at Work

Managing

25 Behaviors That Create Mistrust
Are You a Helicopter Boss?
Effective Leading, Managing and Supervising - What It Takes
Heaven and Hell - Which Are You Creating at Work?
Managing and Teaching Millenials - it's Not Generational
Heaven and Hell - Which Are You Creating at Work?
Intelligent but not Wise - Why Some Leaders are Failing
You May Be Aiding “Difficult” People to Be Difficult
Stepping on Folks to Get What I Want

Motivation

Beyond Procrastination - 8 Questions To Ask Yourself
How "Reference Anxiety" Can Cripple You at Work
Money, Motivation, and Happiness
Motivation - What Is It Really?

Personal Development (self-actualization)

A Dream is But a Dream
Anger - Show Me the Love
Anger, Power and Soul
Authoring Someone Else's Life
Awareness - It's More Than Knowing
Awareness - The Secret Sauce of Personal Change
Behaving Badly - Would I Do That?
Being Comfortable with "Not Knowing" at Work
Being Curious About Curiosity
Being Human and Emotions
Betraying Your Self
Better a Diamond with a Flaw, than a Pebble Without
Blocked, Stuck or Procrastinating? - The Way In is The Way Out
BMW- Driven to Distraction
Commitment and Harmony
Experiencing Loss
Experiencing Well-Being in 2009
Get Lost!
Have You Stopped Chiseling?
Having Work vs. Not Having Work
How Do You Define Success?
I Don't Know and it's Perfectly OK
I Quote, Therefore I Am
I Think, Therefore I Am
I Should ... No, I Choose!
I Want What You Have
Indra's Net - The Essence of Real Networking
Intelligence, Intellect and Wisdom
Intersubjectivity - The Essence of Real Interactions
It's 7:45 am - Do you know where you character is?
Life and Problems - a Package Deal
Little Fish - Little Pond
Living Dangerously - Thinking for Yourself
LUI - Living Under the Influence
My Lawn Mower Made Me Do It
"No Exit" - Inside the World of the Victim
One Way We Might Subvert Our Resolve in 2012
Ouch - When Someone Hits a Raw Nerve
Riding a Dead Horse
Questions for Self-Reflection
Soft Eyes - Seeing True Reality
States and Stages - Growing old vs. growing up
The Benefit of the Doubt
The Fire Down Below - Dealing with our Anger
The Microwave is Too Slow - A Question of Patience
The Need to Figure Everything Out
The Last Gasp of Summer...and Stillness
The Power of Negative Thinking
The Problem Is ...
Those People
Tiger and Fame - Is That All There Is?
Violence - When We Lose Touch With Our Soul
Virtual Reality - Can't Buy Me Love
What Are You Doing, and Why?
What Gets in the Way?
What Keeps You from Self-actualizing?
Whose Mind are You Thinking With?
Why it's Called a Path

Psychology and work

Are You Secure in Your Own Skin?
Do You Use Protection?
Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Maturity
Hearing Voices - The Seeds of Fear, Doubt and Mistrust
Sometimes It May Be Better to Be a Nobody
The Error of Our Ways
"Our Workplace is Like a Family" - That's the Problem
Workplace Dysfunction

Relationship

About Friendship and Burgers
Authentic Relationships - 5-Question Exercise to Explore How You Show Up In Relationship
Buying and Selling Friendship
Connecting vs. Relating and Wall Street
Dual-Professionals in Relationship - Does It Work?
Intention and Attention – The Secret Sauce of Effective Relationships
Love-Hate Relationships Between Lawyers
The Space Between People - Where Relationships Thrive, or Die
What is a Conscious Relationship?
You, Me and Venn - What's Your Relationship Like?

Resolutions (and goals, goal setting)

Experiencing Well-Being in 2009
Why People Need to look Inside Themselves for Happiness

Spirituality (and spirituality at work)

Are You Living in Harmony?
Age quod agis
Are You Digging Yourself into a Hole?
Attachment and Aversion - The Root Cause of Pain and Suffering
Black Friday - and the Dark Side of Humanity
Consciousness, Unconsciousness and Leadership
Cultural Conditioning - When You Give Up Your Truth
Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Maturity
Empathy - It's Not About Cognition
Equanimity - Serenity Within the Chaos
Forget Positive Thinking - Watch Television Instead
Haiti - And the Deeper Meaning
How Could They!? Revenge and Compassion
"I need you to like me." - A Spiritual Approach to Narcissism, Mirroring and One's Need for Feedback
Living with Opposites
Oprah, Steven, John - and You and Me
Poison Control
Revenge is Sweet - or is it?
Spirituality and the Corporate Dilemma
The Economy and the World - A Spiritual Perspective
The Economy and Course Correction - Taking Your Personal Inventory
The Face of Reality
The Gulf – A Healing Perspective
The Moment - That's All There Is
The Superbowl - But Not the Game
Tucson, El Nino and Healing
What Are You Doing, and Why?
What's New?
What Does it Mean to be Soulful or Spiritual?
You say you want to heal, but do you really?

Stress and Burnout

Are You Suffering from Burnout at Work?
Reflecting on Stress and Work
Staying Centered at Work
The Fear of Closing Doors

Success

Remembering What You Read - Nine Effective Strategies

Workplace communication

Blogging, Negativity and Incivility
Connecting vs. Relating and Wall Street
Do You Need To Be Right?
Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!
Gossip - A Form of Workplace Violence
Gossip - A Form of Workplace Violence (Part II)
Talk and Moving Furniture
The Void