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Problems are Pathways
Life is a school, and problems are the homework. The penalty for not doing your homework is that the lessons repeat until you do. Everyone…
March 7, 2024Your Emotions are a Signal… Not a Command
Emotions are just a message about how we are interpreting events and situations in the world around us. They flow out of our expectations and world…
February 27, 2024Happiness is Not the Goal… Neither is Eliminating Unhappiness!
Happiness is Not the Goal: Happiness can be very elusive when directly pursued. Rather, happiness is best achieved as a byproduct of living a life…
February 22, 2024Beware of Intellectualizing Your Emotions
“Intellectualizing emotions is a defense mechanism that serves as a shield against the overwhelming intensity of feelings. It’s the process of suppressing emotions by overthinking,…
January 25, 20245 Ways to Give Feedback Better, 21 Soft Ways to Say Hard Things
Note: The following is 90% from a 2018 Blog by Claire Lew, CEO of Know Your Team (http://knowyourteam.com). “My life’s mission is to help people…
January 18, 2024The Intolerable Cost of Myopic Perfectionism
Myopic Perfectionism: An excessive focus on a single topic to the exclusion of other important topics; an obsessive interest or preoccupation with a particular subject…
January 16, 2024It’s Never a Good Idea to Count on Prosperity Lasting Forever… Good Times Are in Part Opportunities to Save up for Bad Times
Okay, here is a crazy idea for the New Year… live beneath your income. That year-end raise you hopefully got? Stick it in your 401K…
January 2, 2024I Want to Be a Good Person, I Want to Be a Good Citizen… But How Best to Help?
Many kind souls have helped me along my way and I want to give back, in part out of a sense of duty, an obligation…
December 21, 2023Your Emotions are Messages not Masters
Folks often use their feelings to justify their behavior. Within reason, all well and good. However, reason is frequently not on the checklist before proceeding;…
December 12, 2023Who Runs You?
The reflexive answer is “I do, of course!” But do you really? How much of our behavior is unthinking, unanalyzed routine? Goalless habit? Or simply…
November 28, 2023The Great Multiplier
Do you desire happiness? Contentment? Do you want to attract good things and positive, supportive people into your life? Do you want more energy? More…
November 23, 2023