Discover Your True Course: Recent Episodes
J. Michael Godfrey, DMin, PhD, PCC
How do you see it? The truth about stress and its benefits. Much of your success in putting stress to work for you depends on your understanding of stress and your perspective on its purpose and usefulness.
Timely Tips That Will Make Stress Work for You. Introduction to the principles of putting stress to work for a positive, helpful outcome.
Here's what you must do to manage the whirlwind of busy-ness and stress and make it count for the future.
Your Life is Too Short to be Dominated by Discouragement. Discover the Daily Mental Habit that Changes Everything.
Mastering Conflict Management: Expert Tips for Handling Tough Situations with Grace. A tip, offered step-by-step, for lowering anxiety and achieving positive outcomes in conflict situations.
Achieve More: Improve Your Emotional Intelligence and Unleash Your True Potential. Tips for Growth.
Want to Unlock the Secrets to Thriving Relationships? Try these Personal and Professional Communication Tips
Taking risks is hair-raising but will move you into a bigger world. Embrace more of the unfamiliar, unpredictable, and uncontrollable to make a bigger positive impact on those around you. Here’s how.
Get ahead in your career and relationships, have a bigger positive impact on those around you, and even save your life (yikes!). Take time to watch attentively, ask questions, and learn.
Get out of overwhelm and survival mode and make a bigger positive impact on those around you. You can thrive as a relevant, sharp influence on your world, personally and professionally. Here is how.
It's one of the most predictable human responses. When behaviors, interactions, and words don't make sense to you, you'll create a story to explain them. A climate of transparency can eliminate assumptions, false beliefs, and misunderstandings.
What keeps you from truly thriving and enjoying life now? The present moment is the only guarantee you have for living. Unfortunately, you can find yourself caught up in the past, future, or both and miss the opportunities in the present moment.
Your life recently changed, and you feel shaken, empty, confused, and maybe a little lost. Transition Disorientation is real and common. Transform your thoughts and actions for the new season. Here's how.
It takes courage and strength to take a hard look at whether your thinking is true to reality and helpful for living. Do you have it?
Your time is too short to get discouraged about the things around you. Make the most of every moment with this exercise.
Dr. Godfrey's reflections growing out of personal development and 20 years of work at True Course.
It will be a scary, teeth-grinding conversation, and you're unsure how to handle it. It must be sooner than later. Here's how to finish it well, smiling about the result.
When you finally take on the hard work of changing your ways, why do you do it? In the end, is it the growing power of your inspiration, proactivity, and desire to thrive, or the intense pressure of your desperation, reactivity, and need to survive?
If you want exceptional employee commitment and energy contribution, management must create and maintain an environment that cares for people and their development more than the bottom line.
Afraid your message is not getting through? Stop telling and start creating learning experiences for yourself and others. Genuinely curious questions are the magic key.
When your back's against the wall, finding the real problem requires sophisticated skills. Here's how to manage the distance for clearer perspectives and better results.
In a busy, stress-filled life, the first thing to go is the appreciation of a bigger picture. Would you like to regain a broader perspective? Here's how.
When you're confident it's the right thing to do, what keeps you from doing it? Your answer will give you an unsettling gut check about your risk for the future.
Do you end your days feeling, "There must be more?" This signals a deeper longing, which you may be unaware of, but you need an answer for it now. Here ís the direction to your answer.
Zoom Out! Manage your crazy busy, overwhelmed days and frequently muddled priorities with a fresh big-picture focus at the start of this year. Here's how to get started.
Here's what you must do to manage the whirlwind of busy-ness and stress and make it count for the future.
Stop losing to poor communication. Learn 10 ways to improve communication in your workplace and save your organization money.
What You Value Decides where you invest your mental and physical energy. Are you sure you are investing in the most important?
What You Value Decides where you invest your mental and physical energy. Are you sure you are investing in the most important?
Fear will freeze the growth of relationships and effectiveness in your family or work group. Here's how to create the psychological safety your group needs starting now.
Wake-up call! Your Brain will regularly make mistakes, cause conflict, and make you miserable if you don't pay attention. Here's what to do to manage it.
How Often Do You Cave In and Say "Yes" When You Really Want To Give a Strong Determined "No?" This episode provides the tips for action in understanding the stories behind your "yes" or your "no" and how to give the answer you really want to give.
Deconstruction for learning is a common experience. Why it's important and good, how it helps, how you can benefit from deconstructing.
My valuable experience with my coach and why you'll be amazed and amused that you haven't tapped into the remarkable process and results of True Course coaching yet. Learn how much coaching can mean to your life.
Learn how Constant haphazard exposure to information can quickly flood the days and weeks of your life with deepening misery and confusion and how you can take charge for a more joyful experience.
Getting the picture clearly in mind can take some of the fear out of those big life transitions. Here's why.
In this episode we consider how our thinking about success and failure is distorted, how that thinking can cripple progress, and what is needed for making failure a learning ally.
It takes courage and strength to take a hard look at whether your thinking is true to reality and helpful for living. Do you have it?
I find that some rely on their job to provide more fulfillment than it ever can. They may over-rely on other occupations, activities, or relationships in the same way. Learn how to diversify to find the fulfillment you want.
You may want to get the job done all in one sitting but an incremental approach will result in better long term, higher quality results.
In this episode I tell you about the one absolute essential thing you must do to thrive as an adult.
If you want to continue your contribution and influence in your relationships and the world, if you want to "stay relevant," here is the key.
Most avoid argument and disagreement and do it poorly when it's required. Here are some tips that can help you be healthy and nurture others when you must disagree or argue.
In this episode I describe the critical importance of growing emotional intelligence in ensuring organizations successfully navigate big challenges. I explore the need, define emotional intelligence, and give practical points of implementation.
Did you know that every person on the planet has a special story they’ve created for making sense of life?
You need a story as a guide to understanding the world and living in it. Your conscious thoughts and actions as well as your unconscious decisions and actions are controlled by your story. Every person’s story is a little different from another’s because of different life experiences.
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
Here's a review of how to manage communication variables, a brief look at channels and eight tips for greater success with your communication.
Building the Life You've Always Wanted Environment, physical and psychological, powerfully expands or restricts your ability to send your message and receive those of others. Be sure you create an environment that gets the job done and nurtures others.
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
This episode explores how verbal and non-verbal language can get confusing in communication. It also offers tips for managing this often overlooked variable.
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
Just because you're talking doesn't mean you're communicating. To achieve the life you've always wanted, build on your foundations with skillful, effective communication. This episode explores the affect of sender and receiver differences on communication.
In this episode, I challenge you to act now to make personal and professional development a priority. I outline the benefits of True Course coaching and mentoring as methods for growth that are available to you now.
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
This episode reviews the foundational elements of vocation, purpose, values, mission, and vision from a broader worldview. It describes the effects of the foundations on decision-making, and offers reflections that help to clarify values.
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
In this episode we review the foundations you need and point the way to discovering them for yourself.
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
This episode highlights the importance of capitalizing on your unique strengths, interests, talents, experience, and personality when establishing your mission and vision.
Its Dangerous to Ignore Emotional Culture in Your Organization In this episode I offer an invitation to a free experiential webinar on Emotional Culture in organizations, how to assess it, train it, and manage it.
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
Learn how these foundations for living grow out of vocation while each has special qualities of their own that give a powerful foundation for focus, direction, and decision-making in life.
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
This is the consummate mark of those who possess a Christian calling.
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
Explore the identifying marks of those who possess a Christian calling.
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
Explore the importance of vocation or calling as the foundation for focus and direction in every aspect of living.
Learn about understanding and managing the emotional culture in your organization and why it's important to do so. For more information, visit https://discoveryourtruecourse.com/emotionalculture
The series on Building the Life You've Always Wanted includes follow-ups to a Bible class of 30-somethings I am teaching currently. These episodes are Bible-based and oriented from a Christian world-view but not preachy and your views are respected.
What your brain is doing in the background in response to COVID-19 and what you can do about it.