About Steve Goldberg
Steve Goldberg is founder of Upside Matters a website for helping people maintain resilience, be resourceful and even optimistic during challenging times. Steve has worked as a career, personal and executive coach for the past 30 years. He believes in balancing the living of a healthy, vibrant, and fulfilling life with ongoing personal contributions to making this planet a better place to live, for all of us.
Steve has worked around the globe in more than 20 countries, delivering coaching and organizational effectiveness trainings with Fortune 500 corporations, UN organizations and major international governmental agencies.
Steve Goldberg is the co-author of Finding the Upside: Practical Wisdom for Challenging Times. You can read more about and purchase the book at: www.findingtheupside.org
De-cluttering Matters
Got clutter? Steve Goldberg shares inspiring short video on why de-cluttering matters and how to start.
In Giving I Connect with Others
Steve Goldberg discusses author Isabel Allende’s inspiring essay “In Giving I Connect with Others”, written after the death of her daughter.
A Broken Shoelace and Lesson in Optimism
As Steve Goldburg learns, there are lessons in the smallest things in life, even shoelaces.
How to Really Be Present For Someone
It’s difficult and rare for most people to appropriately “be there” for another person in distress. Steve Goldberg offers some key tips come to mind for being more helpful towards another during challenging times.
When Net Worth Becomes Self Worth
Since we tend to focus on what we measure in our life and work, we pay a heavy and distorted price when we limit our definition of personal success to our net worth.
Are Synchronicities Rare Events or are We Rarely Paying Attention?
Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans. Synchronicity is what happens when you are paying attention.
Meeting Mandela: One of the Most Profound Upside Moments of My Life
The day after Nelson Mandela was released from prison almost 21 years ago, Steve Goldburg happened to be in the right place to meet the revered champion of human rights. It was a meeting Steve will never forget.
Softening, Engaging the Funny Bone and Expressing Gratitude: Three Friends’ Recipes for Dealing with Prostate Cancer
Three men. Three diagnoses of advanced prostate cancer. One message of gratitude. Three men in my life who I care about a lot have recently been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. Each is relatively young, none of them know each other, but … Read more →
What Have You Noticed?
Like most all of us, I have experienced a number of challenges and set-backs during this Great Recession period. My income and savings dropped dramatically, my dream of starting a new business was put into mothballs. I needed to do a … Read more →
Make It Easier to Save and Harder to Spend
One of our key Upside Life messages is about developing and maintaining financial well-being through adequate saving coupled with living within our means and buying items when we can afford them. National Public Radio Economic commentator Beth … Read more →
