by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Mar 20, 2021 | General
It was my idea from the beginning. “Kids need to grow up with one,” I insisted. I had other reasons too. The oldest was developing a phobia. The middle youngling had a birthday coming and needed something to call her own. And the youngest, well, he was...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Mar 12, 2021 | General, Human Leader, Leadership
On Sunday, I opened my weather app to see the forecast for the upcoming week hoping against hope that warmer weather was coming to Chicago. All my neighbors have seen their snow melt away revealing the ground underneath, yet my back yard is still snow covered. Two...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Mar 5, 2021 | General, Human Leader, Leadership
Perhaps you’ve heard of The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. The first edition was published in 1992 with a revised edition in 2015. Chapman listed five categories of “love languages” that he found in his counseling practice as ways people give...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Feb 19, 2021 | Core Values, General, Human Leader
Last week I shared the true story of a man who died bitter and alone, and no one cried. There was another man whose story I’ll tell today. The two men were friends. For many years they lived in the same town, they attended the same church, they raised their...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Feb 12, 2021 | Core Values, General
There is a common (some might say overused) question in the motivation/life coaching industry. In the coaching genre, it is often asked to get the coachee to think about their legacy, trying to boil it down into as few words as possible. “What do you want on...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Feb 5, 2021 | General
We all know selfish people. Heck, we’ve probably all been selfish at various times of our lives. And we know people we see as self-less. And, I imagine we have all been self-less at various times as well. So how do you determine when you’re being selfish...
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