Articles by Peter Vajda

  • Authenticity

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

  • Book

Becoming a Better You - Synopsis
Praise for Becoming a Better You
Section One – Self-Awareness is a First Step (excerpt)
Section Two – The Obstacles that Stand in The Way
Section Three – Tools, Exercises and Practices (excerpt)
Why I Wrote This Book

  • Career and employment

Consider a New Career in Tough Times
Dissatisfied at Work - Perhaps It's You
Facing Challenging Times - Worry is not a Requirement
Follow-Up--Work, Play or Misery?
Integrity at Work - How Do You Show Up?

  • Change

3 Keys for Overcoming Resistance to Change Workshop 3-1-14
Allowing - The Truth About Change
Becoming a Better You Workshop 10-26-13
Becoming a Better You Workshop 4-27-13
Book Cover
Hanging On For Dear Life
Living in the Gutter - Why Change is Challenging
Man Creating Himsef
Not Here; Not There
Overcoming Resistace to Change 11-16-13
Overcoming Resistance to Change Workshop 10-26-13
Overcoming Resistance to Change Workshop 11-16-13
Overcoming Resistance to Change Workshop 12-14-13
Overcoming Resistance to Change Workshop 7-13-13
Overcoming Resistance to Change Workshop 9-7-13
The 70 %
The Economy And Your Quality Of Life
The Times - They Are a-Changin'
Why Change Triggers A Fear Of Dying
Yahoo and Resistance to Change
You Can't Tell Folks To Change, Period!

  • Coaching

9 Guidelines For Spiritual Coaching

  • Conflict

Know Thyself And Workplace Conflict
Know Thyself And Workplace Conflict (II)
The Benefits Of Constructive Conflict

  • Dating

Dating Red Flag - Blaming Others When Things Go Wrong
Dating Red Flag - Spending An Inordinate Amount Of Time Outside The Relationship

  • Employee Engagement

The Clover Practice ™
The Thrill Is Gone - When Employees Disengage

  • Ethics in the Workplace

A Culture Of Fear - And The Antidote
Betrayal - The Ultimate Trust-Buster
Confucius And Decency At Work
Don't Trust Me Because - I Don't Trust Me
Gossip - A Form of Workplace Violence
Integrity at Work - How Do You Stack Up?
Integrity, Trust And Agreements At Work
Lying At Work
The Serious Side of Put-Down Humor
Trust In The Workplace - Why We Lie
Unethical Behavior and Bad Managers

  • Friendship

Loneliness and Friendship

  • Happiness

Happiness - Money Vs. The Inner Journey
Saying NO
Why People Need To Loook Inside For Happiness

  • Holidays, Vacation and R&R

Holidays--Ho-Ho-Ho Or Ho-Hum?
One Down, Two to Go
Valentine's Day - Not 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
Are you a leadership lightweight?
Challenging Questions for Independent Leaders
Consciousness, Unconsciousness and Leadership
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 Foster Mistrust
Are You A Helicopter Boss?
Disengagement - When The Flame Dies
Heaven And Hell - Which Are You Creating At Work?
Intelligent, But Not Wise; Why Some Leaders and Managers Are Failing
Managing and Teaching Millenials - It's Not Generational
So You Think You Can.....Lead

  • Motivation

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

  • Personal Development (self-actualization)

"Those" People
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
Be a Nobody? Are You Serious!
Behaving Badly - Would I Do That?
Being Authentic
Being Comfortable With "Now 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
Control
Diet and Mind, Body and Spirit
Difficult People
Do you use protection?
Emotional Intelligence vs. Emotional Maturity
Experiencing Loss
Experiencing Well-Being In 2012
Have You Stopped Chiseling?
Having Work Vs. Not Having Work
How Do You Define Success?
How to keep from living a life of insanity
I Don't Know And It's Perfectly OK
I Quote; Therefore, I Am
I Should; No, I Choose
I Think; Therefore, I am
I Want What You Have
Impatience
Intelligence, Intellect and Wisdom
Intersubjectivity -The Essence Of Real Interaction
It's 7:45 A.M., Do You Know Where Your Character Is?
Learning to Say "no."
Life And Problems, A Package Deal
Listen, please!
Little Fish, Little Pond
Living Dangerously - Thinking For Yourself
Living With Uncertainty
Meddling
My lawnmower made me do it
One Way We Might Subvert Our Resolve
Ouch! When Someone Hits A Raw Nerve
Pointing Fingers
Put-Down Humor is Not Funny
Questions For Self-Reflection
Rescue Me! The World Of The Victim
Soft Eyes - Seeing True Reality
States and Stages - Growing Up Vs. Growing Old
The Benefit Of The Doubt
The Fire Down Below - Dealing With Our Anger
The Importance of Community
The Last Gasp Of Summer...And Stillness
The Microwave Is Too Slow - A Question Of Patience
The Moment I Wake Up
The Music of Your Life
The Myth of Multitasking
The Need To Figure Everything Out
The Power Of Negative Thinking
This Week is Last Week's Next Week
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?
When The Horse Dies, It's Time to Get Off
Whose Mind Are You Thinking With?
Why Change Triggers a Fear of Dying

  • Psychology and work

"Our Workplace Is Like A Family" - That's The Problem
Are You Secure in Your Own Skin?
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
Workplace Dysfunction

  • Relationship

About Friendship And Burgers
Authentic Relationships - 5-Questions 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?
Feelings and Physiology
Friendship for Sale - And 30% off!
Initiating Relationships
Intention and Attention - The Secret Sauce Of Effective Relationships
Intersubjectivity - Where Relationships Thrive Or Die
Love-Hate Relationships Between Lawyers
Social Media - Here We Are, Both of Us Lonely
What is a conscious relationship (podcast)?
What Is A Conscious Relationship?
You, Me And Venn - What's Your Relationship LIke?

  • Relationship Workshop

10 Commitments for Conscious Relationships
10 New Laws of Love
10 Qualities of a Conscious Relationship
10 Rules for Effective Communication
4 Communication Pitfalls
4 Qualities of a Conscious Relationship
5 Communication Mistakes
5 Communication Pitfalls
5 Stages of a Close Relationship
7 Habits of Happily Married Couples
Bad Relationships and Dis-Ease
Clearing
Co-Dependency Resources
Communicate in the Middle of a Conflict
Communication between Couples
Conscious Relationship Questionnaire (2)
Conversation Starters
Criticism, Complaint and Request
Feelings to Thoughts
Focusing Practice
Hendricks
How to Create a Conscious Relationship
Is This the Right Relationship for Me?
Loving Kindness Writing Meditation
Mindfulness Practices
Nine Enneagram Personalities
Requirements, Needs, Wants
Requirements, Needs, Wants (2)
Values List
Visualization Exercise
What is a Conscious Relationship?

  • Resolutions (and goals, goal setting)

Why People Need To Look Inside For Happiness

  • Resources

Body slapping for circulation/energy
Depression - 20 statements
duck
Focusing Exerise
goblets
Meditation, Mindfulness and Visualization: Finding Peace while Living with Cancer
Mindfulness practices
Mindfulness, Meditation and a Better You - Podcast Interview
Misery -Resources doc.
old woman
Rocks and pebbles exercise
Self/Tiime Managment Resources
Speaker references
Yo-Chi-Ahhh! description

  • Speaking

Peter Speaking

  • Spirituality (and spirituality at work)

"I Need You To Like ME." - A Spiritual Approach to Narcissism and One's Need For Feedback,
"If I Were You..."
A Mom's Birthday Message to Her Son(s)
Age Quod Agis
Are You Digging Yourself Into A Hole
Are You Living a Life In Harmony?
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 Comes From the Heart, Not the Mind
Equanimity - Serenity Within The Chaos
Forget Positive Thinking - Watch Television Instead
Form vs. Substance
Gratitude and Why it’s Healthy to Remember What You’re Thankful For
Haiti - And The Deeper Meaning
How Could They! Revenge Vs. Compassion
How do you experience loss?
Is self-help helping?
It's about wholeness, not perfection
Living With Opposites
Lost? That's Good News!
LUI - Living Under the Influence
No Mud, No Lotus
Oprah, Steven, John - And You And Me
Poison Control
Regaining Inner Peace
Relationship Networking - on Another Level
Revenge Is Sweet - Or Is It?
Sandy - And a Deeper Meaning
Shaping Our Souls: the Dance of Love and Hate (Addendum to the video)
Spiritual Bypassing
Spirituality And The Corporate Dilemma
Spirituality, work and interdependency
The Economy And Course Correction - Taking Your Personal Inventory
The Economy And The World - A Spiritual Perspective
The Face Of Reality
The Gulf - A Healing Perspective
The Inner Judge and Critic
The Moment - That's All There Is
The Philippines and the deeper meaning
The problem is...
The Superbowl - But Not The Game
Tuscon, El Nino And Healing
What Are You Doing, And Why?
What Does It Mean To Be Soulful Or Spiritual
What's New
When the Waters Were Changed
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

How Do You Define Success?
Remembering What You Read - 9 Effective Strategies

  • Workplace communication

Blogging, Incivility and Negativity
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)
Gossip - The Unkind Word
Know Thyself and Workplace Conflict
Our Workplace is Like a Family -That's the Challenge
Perceptions
Self-Reflective Questions around Gossip
Talk And Moving Furniture
The Void

Becoming a Better You

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