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Four Ways to Make Your THANKS More Powerful and Effective
November is National Thankfulness Month. It is the month we focus on being grateful and is celebrated nationally on Thanksgiving. ...
Bruce Terpstra
6 min read


Four Ways People Make Decisions and Why You Need to Know the Difference
Don’t assume we all make decisions in the same way, because we don’t. If you make this mistake, you will often find yourself frustrated...
Bruce Terpstra
5 min read


Four Habits of Powerful Encouragers
If you are like me, you sometimes get discouraged and are tempted to give up. Often the difference between failure and success is...
Bruce Terpstra
5 min read


What No One Tells You About Conflict That You Need To Know
Most people hate conflict and will do anything and everything to avoid it. But if you are like me, conflict finds you anyway. It...
Bruce Terpstra
5 min read


How to Handle a Forceful Person
You know the person I am referring. They can be quite direct and in your face about what they want to see happen. They have a goal in...
Bruce Terpstra
4 min read


Why Fear is So Destructive – But Can Be Overcome
Fear. We all have it – to some degree. It is part of being human. We have needs that when threatened, cause us to have an emotional...
Bruce Terpstra
4 min read


Your Vision Casting May be Turning People Off
Vision is critical. It is the invisible motivation that brings people together to accomplish something special. Vision is able to bond...
Bruce Terpstra
5 min read

How to Overcome Defensiveness
We all have a tendency to be defensive. If we can overcome defensiveness, we would have better relationships and make better decisions....
Bruce Terpstra
4 min read


How “WOKE” are You in your Communication?
Recently I saw a post written by someone who was completely fed up with the way people were reading their post. His statement insisted...
Bruce Terpstra
6 min read


Relational Intelligence Can Help You Engage with Racism and Conversations about Race
At the very foundation of racism is the diminished value of a human life created in the image of God. You may have heard the phrase...
Bruce Terpstra
6 min read
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