Author Archives: Laurie Gerber

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Pick Your Own Pep Talk

 Here’s a blog you may want to bookmark and come back to from time to time. I’ve been coaching for more than 15 years and I have given a lot of pep talks in my day, to myself and others. I also give them frequently during Wake Up Your Week. I’d say it’s a main […]

Permission to Dream About Your Job

I hereby grant you permission to dream about your job. This is your official permission slip. Want to know how to use it to its fullest extent? Read on. The average American lifetime includes 90,000+ hours of work time. If you are not using those hours to live out a dream, you might be feeling […]

Claim Your Power to Perceive

  I was jogging around 8:30am on a very cloudy Saturday morning and I observed a girl of about three years old entering an empty playground with her father. She had kind of a funny look on her face and it got me wondering. What was she thinking? I came up with several theories:– Where […]

How to Stop Hating Monday

  I have a great life, but I am always at work on something, because if you aren’t growing, you’re atrophying. And if you aren’t admitting you can be a nut sometimes, you aren’t telling the truth! A few months back, I decided I was ready to stop being such a nut on Mondays. The […]

Five Blunders that Kill Your Happiness

I believe we were meant to be happy. I am also pretty certain it was meant to be a challenge to get and stay happy or else we’d take it for granted and get bored. So then, life is about the pursuit of happiness. I used to be generally unhappy and now I am generally […]

May You Love Your Career

Guess what the most powerful coaching is about careers? Strengths and weaknesses? Your resume? Reaching out to everyone you know? Nope, it’s this: Plan TIME to work on your career. Doesn’t that seem so simple? In the Handel Method®, we teach people to see that thoughts lead to feelings and feelings lead to actions, which […]

Designing Your Career

  Guess why I chose teaching elementary school as my career when I was in college? Because ALL I knew was this:1) I wanted to help people.2) I wanted to be able to get a job.3) I like a demanding atmosphere with lots to do. It seemed like a sound list of criteria at the […]

From Addiction to Recovery

Laurie Dhue was at the height of her career. She was a successful news anchor appearing on several networks and even had her own show. Meanwhile, she was killing herself with alcohol and drugs. She masterfully protected her addiction, and hid it well, fooling everyone by being at the top of her career while at […]

I Got “Schooled”

Years ago, when I first came to the Handel Group® as a client, I got the whole methodology laid out for me, and I digested it all, chunk by life-changing chunk. Now, as a Co-President in the company and a Senior Coach, I teach others our method. I thought I knew all there was to […]

A Plug For Monogamy And How To Keep It

If you are in a committed relationship, I suggest you tell your partner when you are flirting with someone else. And certainly, if you are cheating. That is, if you want the relationship to be deep, loving, connected and lasting. But actually even if you don’t. I’ll explain why below. I know what you’re thinking: […]

Compete, Pout, Martyr and Shout

The other day, I was in a knee-jerk, control mode, trying to get my way with my kids. All the phenomena I experienced were familiar: in the middle of my rant, I felt noble, all my logic made perfect sense to me. The voices in my head sounded intelligent: they are studying wrong, they are […]