Category Archives: boundaries and limits

(Issue #653) If I Only Had Six Months to Live

Posted on September 14, 2025 by Steve Piscitelli

At times, the stories we tell ourselves and the stories we live contradict one another. [Note: Before you leave this post, check out the video link at the end.] One exercise I did with my students and national audiences was … Continue reading →

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(Issue #596) Caregiver or Care Taker?

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Steve Piscitelli

Caregivers have clear boundaries and limits.Care takers do not—and the results can be heartbreaking. ~~~~~ In his book, The Anger Solution: The Proven Method for Achieving Calm, and Developing Healthy, Long-Lasting Relationships, John Lee distinguishes between boundaries and limits. Two … Continue reading →

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(Issue #489) Opportunities to Notice

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Steve Piscitelli

The range of what we think and do Is limited by what we fail to notice And because we fail to notice That we fail to notice There is little we can do To change Until we notice How failing … Continue reading →

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(Issue #459) Resilience: Where Can You Make Changes?

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Steve Piscitelli

This week’s blog post draws on the seventh, and final, core value from Community as a Safe Place to Land (2019). Resilience: The ability to connect adaptability, recovery, growth, and discovery. The Seven Core Values for Purpose and Growth provide … Continue reading →

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(#448) Flexibility

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

  NOTE to my followers.  This will be my last post for 2018.  Next week in this space you will find my annual end-of-year retrospective.  Thank you for following, commenting, and sharing my posts.  I appreciate you. May you end … Continue reading →

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(#446) What Serves As Your Fuel?

Posted on December 9, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

W.A.Y.D.T.G.W.Y.W? Clean out an overstuffed desk drawer or dig into the rear of the hall closet and you might say, “Darn, where did that come from?” Or, a slight smile might crease your lips, “Yeah, that brings back memories!” Last … Continue reading →

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(#444) Mouths and Ears

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

Discourse. Dialogue. Debate. Diminished? In an interview with Bill Moyers, writer and political analyst Sam Tanenhaus addressed the challenge with current-day discourse or dialogue or debate. The people around the table “have many mouths but they don’t have many ears… … Continue reading →

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(#409) More with Less or Less with More?

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

If the “more-with-less crisis” is followed by another “more-with-less crisis” and yet another, simple arithmetic indicates with each “more” there is a lot “less.” And then that becomes the norm.   Toward the end of my high school teaching career the … Continue reading →

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(#403) Create Your Own Story Or Someone Else Will

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

It may be too late. Perhaps you have witnessed it.  People in a leadership position who fail to communicate clearly and effectively. An organization experiences gut-wrenching turnover, service decline, loss of client base, and eroding collegiality.  The people charged with … Continue reading →

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(#343) Reflect, Remove, And Replace: Focus On The Space

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Steve Piscitelli

All of us have experienced times when one or more of the slices, sectors, segments, or spaces of our lives no longer seem to serve us. All of us are multi-dimensional beings.  One wellbeing model divides our lives into six dimensions. When … Continue reading →

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