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True Grit: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
True Grit: Call it resilience or perseverance or determination or courage or fortitude or toughness. Call it all of those things and more: steadfastness in…
August 6, 2024
Do You Experience Goal-incongruent Emotions?
Negative emotions such as doubt, fear, anxiety, depression, despair, guilt, or shame all weaken us, detract from our focus, sap our energy and drive. It’s…
August 1, 2024
Your Thoughts Create
What are you creating? What do you choose to observe? What thoughts do you choose? What identity do you don? What mood, what emotions, what…
July 30, 2024
How Many You’s Make Up You? Which You Do You Answer To?
We all have many sides, many selves within us; conflicting wishes, drives, and emotions, making the old quote ‘To thy own self be true’ a…
July 25, 2024
Inner Scorecard or Outer Scorecard?
Inner success or outer success? Which matters most to you? Where did your values and beliefs come from? Truly yours, the result of deep self-awareness,…
July 23, 2024
What is your Ikigai?
Ikigai (ee-kee-guy) is a combination of the Japanese words ‘iki’ (to live) and ‘gai’ (reason) literally meaning ‘reason to live’. What constitutes a fulfilling life…
July 18, 2024
Try the Other Handle
“Every event has two handles—one by which it can be carried, and one by which it can’t. If your brother does you wrong, don’t grab…
July 16, 2024
Do You Ask Dirty Questions?
In this context, a Dirty Question is one that either: contains the biases and assumptions of the questioner or presupposes/directs the answer or is judgmental/critical…
July 11, 2024
There has got to be a Morning After
We have all heard of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder); less is written about PTG: Post Traumatic Growth. PTG is the positive psychological transformation than…
July 9, 2024
Be the Bee, Not the Fly
How you approach life powerfully impacts the life you experience. Do you stand outside yourself and observe how, in ways small and large, you are…
July 4, 2024
How Cognitively Fit Are You?
We think a lot about physical fitness; seems like there is a gym every 10 blocks. We care about emotional fitness as well; at times…
July 2, 2024