Our self-judgments originate from all sorts of unreliable sources. They then take roost in our left brains and create a neural groove that reboots itself over and over as our self-dialogue becomes infected with these untruths. If you’ve survived in any business for any length of time, you’ve probably heard it all. Hearing something someoneRead more
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Do we ever graduate from school? The wanting to be liked? Or popular? Or more attractive? Or more “cool?” At one level – no – because what everyone struggles with as adults are the same core issues that high school traumas (like surviving lunch period!) brought up for us: thinking that we’re not good enoughRead more
Life is full of challenges. That’s the way it is. It makes it interesting and builds character. But we don’t like them, do we? We mislabel them as “problems” because we’re taught culturally to seek pleasure and avoid pain at all costs. We’re spoon-fed images that life is about having the perfect house with theRead more
Start with yourself. If you start anywhere else, it’s a false start and you’ll just be forced to go back to the starting line and begin again. And again. (Sort of like Usain Bolt false-starting & being DQ’d at the World Track & Field Championships yesterday.) Starting with yourself means finding the place within youRead more
Life is about shortening the gap between where we are and where we’d like to be. In all aspects. Think about it. You want to get healthier or lose weight. You want to have a more committed spiritual practice. You want to be more creative and book more creative work. The only way you’re goingRead more
“The grass is greener syndrome.” If you suffer from it, it’s yet another way of postponing your life. Putting the things you desire on the back burner. When we covet another person’s journey, we think if only we had what they had our life would be more fun. Or more exciting. Or more magical. YourRead more
We live in the world of action. No doubt about it. If you have great intentions but sit around on your couch all day eating Trader Joe’s Pirate’s Booty and watch 70’s sitcom reruns, it ain’t gonna happen. Doing means converting possibility into actuality. But what gives rise to possibility? Possibilities are born in aRead more
Astrophysicist, Adam Frank, interviewed on NPR says that the “experience of time throughout history is an invention. It is neither God-given nor physics-given.” It is a social construct that is built by a particular culture for political, economic or religious reasons. Buddhists talk about dying to the past and that the future hasn’t yet beenRead more
Listen up Drama Queens! What if we understood conflict from a new scientific quantum perspective, gaining a new awareness of how to use conflict when it arises in a way that’s healthy and creative? If you look at your life, the periods of greatest conflict also were the opportunities for greatest growth and awareness. YouRead more
In our evolutionary process, there are 3 types of learning. 1). Those “light bulb” moments you get when you’re hearing something truly remarkable for the first time. It’s “beginner” learning. The sad thing is, as we get older, we think we “know it all”, becoming bitter and jaded (ouch!) which makes it feel as ifRead more