
A Paradoxical Life
I enjoy writing about UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery. It is an interesting was to think about life. Have you ever noticed that some people do not believe in an unseen reality such as God, Angels the soul, life after, you know, the “D” word. Yet it is the unseen aspects of life that impact people the most. Think about virtue, morals, and character. We live and experience our daily lives in reaction to these unseen somethings or other. When I meet a stranger who manifests good character, life is good and I react to this reality in a certain kind of way. When I meet a stranger who manifests bad character, life is less good and I react to this reality in a different kind of way. Yet, character remains unseen but, nevertheless, experienced. People act according to the development of the essence of their character. For example, some people will argue with you about almost anything because it gives them an excuse for ignoring the social situations that require the most attention.
Building upon my unique UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery approach to life derived from real-life problem solving experiences throughout the world, I like to write about targeted evidence-based experiences that facilitate the rapid attainment of soft-skills mastery.
The UlThule™ Mastery Difference in Soft-Skills Attainment
It is true that many leaders hire consultants. It is also true that many leaders hire consultants who are not good fits for their situations. Probably, every leader engages a consultant to solve a problem sometime. Unfortunately, not every consultant can assist leaders well enough to solves these kinds of leadership problems. Rather, these consultants may render a fine bit of advice. Unfortunately advice and a few dollars will get a Leader a hot cup of coffee, but not a problem solution. It is one thing to participate in a consulting session, but it is another to participate in a Soft-Skills Mastery session that enables leaders to become empowered well enough to solve their problems themselves.
For a number of decades, I have assisted leaders throughout the world with unleashing their personal potency. This occurs not through advice-giving but through problem-solving. Highly potent individuals form and maintain more rewarding and loving relationships, forge enduring solutions, and increase human potency throughout the world. Employing a soft-skills mastery approach formed and nurtured through decades of problem-solving based on direct personal experience, I have assisted people with rapidly finding technical, contextual, and behavioral solutions that were relevant to their problem situations. Such a Soft-Skills Mastery approach is transformative because it assists people with more rapidly acquiring skills not previously possessed. Such outcomes build the potency and competence of each person I assisted. This is, indeed, quite interesting. Someone ought to write a few books about this. Come to think about it, I have.

Rapid Problem Solving Through UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery
UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery presents a special way of realizing a person’s potential to deliver extraordinary problem-solving performance as a common practice. Rather than using difficult formulas, trial & error guesses, or taking blind shots in the dark, people can leverage UlThule™ Soft-Skills Development to improve or other wise enhance their problem-solving skills. In each of his books, Ray Newkirk shares insights and fosters concepts that expand and deepen a person’s capacity for solving problems in rapid real time through the development of effective strategies as personal solution plans. Through UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery , people begin to understand more clearly the limits and potential of their skills and capabilities. They may also better understand how these capabilities impact themselves personally, even their friends and their careers professionally. In this way, people can better achieve personal and professional growth. Ray Newkirk views his UlThule™ Soft-Skills approach as an interactive self-design process that can assist dedicated individuals with building their personal potency and exceeding the limits of earlier self-imposed constraints.
Values, Morals, Ethics, and all of these formative kinds of beliefs and behaviors, can serve to form each one of us as more fully human when we live by the guidance they deliver. But, and here is the big BUT, what is Applied Moral Wisdom? That’s the ticket to us all for living a fully human life. How do we inform our morals? How do we become a morally wise people? Moral Wisdom remains merely an academic discussion unless we apply such wisdom in our daily lives. Dogs, cats, bats, rats, and kangaroos are not guided by moral wisdom, but human beings can be if they work at it. This is good to know the next time we see a human being walking his or her pet. This kind of knowledge can just possibly inform our behavior and give us some kind of hint of what to expect from the situation when the dog bares his or her teeth. —RLN

UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery is Evidence Based
UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery works because it is an intelligent and evidence-based way of looking at personal potency and the limits of personal performance. UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery focuses on the experience of the person, the goals of the person, the environments influencing the person’s life and the problems faced by the person that require resolution during the person’s life-long development. However, it does this by considering the limits of the person’s potency and the potential for going beyond these usually passive limits. As an individual unites all of these concerns into a single problem-solving environment, he or she may become more ready to see that UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery, as a philosophy for growth, is enabled by an individual’s personal aspirations. He or she may well understand that it is a philosophy for growth that focuses on developing, and possibly transforming, the deepest experiences of his or her life.
UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery never ends. People begin the UlThule™ Soft-Skills journey as a self-development journey throughout the person’s lifetime. For them it become a high performance process of life-long soft-skills development and emotional growth that is unique to each person. The contextual and behavioral dimensions of each person’s life naturally makes the UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery experience unique to each person.
People have changed significantly over the years. The technology of social media has significantly impacted how people think, relate, learn, and form relationships, and even how they make decisions about the most important issues of their lives. That age old question is still with us: “To Be Or Not To Be?” I designed the UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery approach to assist people with finding answers to this deeply personal and very human question,“To Be Or Not To Be?” It is the question that every human being seeks to answer one way or another, directly or indirectly, courageously or indifferently at different times in each person’s lifetime. It is the “Problem for the Ages,” one might say, that my books assist people with answering. Uncovering the right answer to this nagging question makes all the difference in the world to how well people prepare themselves for designing their futures as best they can.
Self-development never ends. It may slow down a bit, take a detour, hesitate, and even halt for a time. But it is there even in old age as people question the meaning of their lives and search for understanding as they face their failures and successes, their good times and bad and the meaning of it all. The problem of mortality is ultimately solved in living through it as an effective human being according to one’s capacity to do so.
Nevertheless, the questions may change and the meanings of them may take on different priorities, but it is important to remember that the sense of meaning of one’s life and the results of one’ actions remind us that we are connected to a greater reality that unifies the experiences of one’s life with those of family, friends, and colleagues who, themselves, are making a similar journey that adds deeper meaning to one’s own life as it gives meaning to their lives.
UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery assists people during their life-long journey reminding them that they are indeed potent individuals who contribute not only to the value of their own lives but to the lives of family, friends, and colleagues throughout one’s lifetime. This is not a meaningless sentiment, but it is the stuff that makes the history of humanity so powerful, and hopeful, and possible. In its small and seemingly insignificant way, UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery serves as a positive force in the continuous unfolding of every person’s life. This is worthy of note. To this end, UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery delivers transformative insights. UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery succeeds because people develop the courage to be supportive and productive human beings. Among other benefits, UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery may assist people with learning how to more appropriately:
Clarify the range of their influence on family, friends, and colleagues;
Build potent workplace relationships;
Develop levels of intimacy and trust appropriate to a specific situation and audience;
Control one’s reactions and priorities in awkward social and work settings;
Attain performance that is beyond the common limits of Peak Performance delivered by colleagues;
Generate curiosity in difficult situations through the use of intelligently guided questions, and
React in more appropriate ways that build confidence among family, friends, and colleagues. Take a minute to write an introduction that is short, sweet, and to the point.
