Terry Newell is currently director of his own firm, Leadership for a Responsible Society. His work focuses on values-based leadership, ethics, and decision making. A former Air Force officer, Terry also previously served as Director of the Horace Mann Learning Center, the training arm of the U.S. Department of Education, and as Dean of Faculty at the Federal Executive Institute. Terry is co-editor and author of The Trusted Leader: Building the Relationships That Make Government Work (CQ Press, 2011). He also wrote Statesmanship, Character and Leadership in America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and To Serve with Honor: Doing the Right Thing in Government (Loftlands Press 2015).
All in Pursuing Happiness
As one year closes and another is about to be born, may these treasures of music and dance bring you joy in sharing what people can bring to each other.
Partners in marriage are going to argue because people differ. Learning how to have good fights can make a marriage stronger.
"Touchy-feely" people are said to be overly focused on emotions. But emotions are central to good relationships, so these people have something to teach us.
Living at too fast a pace is unhealthy for us and our relationships. There are many ways to slow down.
The human need to feel useful to others is central to good health and happiness. When that need goes unfulfilled, we and society suffer.
My musical gift to you. Let voices and sounds lift your heart!
The coming of fall demands certain changes in how I live. I’m not so good about changing.
Violent extremists can change. Former Ku Klux Klanner Chris Buckley and Muslim refugee Heval Kelli demonstrate the power of openness, listening and healing.
For decades, a small peninsula in Maine has brought us its gifts of beauty, history, and the pleasures of relishing a summer respite with dear friends.
We will be remembered not by our “resume” achievements but by the stories about us that keep alive our values and how we have treated others.
Acts of kindness mean more to those who receive them than we think - and do more for our own health and happiness than we expect.
We all want to avoid ubiquitous emails - Spam - that flood us online. But how would we feel if an important email we sent was treated as Spam?
Some people love the splendor of a large cruise ship on the open ocean. But I’m not one of those people, and I have reasons.
If you’ve been reluctant to dance, give it a try. It will improve your brain and your relationship with someone you choose as your partner.
I could never catch a fly ball. It took me years to understand why.
Travel, for many people who’ve caught that bug, is thrilling. For me, and I’m not alone, travel is another thing entirely. .
Our fathers have stories of their lives they may never share. If we ask them to do so, we may appreciate them even more - and get to thank them for the example they set.
We crave social connection. It’s good for our mental and physical health. Its absence produces loneliness and disease.
We may never render some great service to humanity, but the way we live our lives can foster justice and joy in our world.
Amidst the overbearing presence of COVID and a snow-induced power outage, just having an ordinary day seems glorious.
