The TAJL Group llc

This is going to be an 11 part posting about how to "Communicate"!  Communication is considered the key to successful relationships and interactions with others.   Let's get started with the first "C" in communicate! "C" :  Care!   Within any relationship the first thing one must do is care!  If you were to look up the definition of care, you would find that it simply means to feel concern, attach importance or paying serious attention. You will also find that it means to look after or provide for the needs of another and more.  The big question is then, "Do you care?" For educators, the big key is to care first and curriculum second.  For success in school, the students must feel that they are being cared for and are important.  Often as educators, we can find ourselves so absorbed in the processes and getting through the curriculum that we fail to get to "know" the student.   Finding your base in this type of relationship ...

It's here!  "MY PATH? THE JOURNEY BEGINS!"  A course designed to help YOU easily discover your True Career and to discover YOU!  You can now be deeply relaxed in life and complete the course feeling totally re-energized and confident in who you are! Now!  If you have been searching for a simple way to understand how to make goals a reality and to discover that career, you now have an opportunity to complete that search!  I have taught hundreds over the last 6 months through speaking engagements at conferences. Now YOU can go through the information at your own speed and find your life and career path.  This course is designed with videos that explain each section, documents for you to read and complete simple yet effective assignments, and a journal for you to log your progress.  There is also the opportunity to share your thoughts on a discussion board with other students as well as with me!  You can also contact me with your questions, conce...

The beauty of life is that we were all made with some piece that is unique from those around us.  Instead of celebrating what makes each of us unique, we judge and demean.  We even criticize our own unique qualities instead of finding how these unique qualities could be of service to us and those around us. The definition of unique finds itself as being the only one of its kind and unlike anything else.  The unique qualities of us make us distinctive, special, individual and even idiosyncratic!  What?  Idiosyncratic?  That sounds like idiot with some syncratic in it! Oh...it means distinctive, unique and more.  Whew....for a second there I thought being critical was going to be okay as our uniqueness makes us idiots!  Actually it can if our approach is off!  We need to stop thinking of the uniqueness of others as strange and "scary".  How can we build upon these qualities?  How can we be compassionate? Uniqueness is being limite...