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Tail Enders
Affirmations are positive, present-tense statements designed to bring out our best selves, to focus our thoughts, emotions, and attention in the direction we want to…
January 12, 2011
No ANTs at the Picnic, Please
ANTs are those Automatic Negative Thoughts that we so often allow to run in the background of our minds. ANTs are the output of our…
January 5, 2011
Wisdom on the Fly
I find quotations valuable because they can encapsulate wisdom. Life’s challenge is to DO as well as we KNOW; in the critical moment of decision…
December 20, 2010
Lean and Hungry
Disque D. Deane passed away November 8, 2010, at age 89. Deane, a shrewd real estate investor who once controlled the GM Building on New…
December 6, 2010
Simple Ideas, Complex Execution
The secrets to success often lie in plain sight. They are secrets only because we chose to overlook them. Sometimes the most mundane can serve…
November 30, 2010
Today is a New Day…
“Today is a new day and I am a new Nathan, totally free to make new choices.” This is one of my daily affirmations. It…
November 18, 2010
Mental Muscles
About 6 o’clock one recent Saturday morning I went downstairs and did a few reps on a Nautilus machine. The longer I live, the more…
November 9, 2010
Cold Stoves: Learning the Right Lesson
It is said that a cat, once burned on a hot stove, never sits on a hot stove again. But the cat never sits on…
October 26, 2010
Harriet Lerner’s “The Dance of Intimacy”
I began re-reading this old favorite the other day. “The Dance of Intimacy” deals with relationships and the patterns of distancing and pursuit (approach-avoidance behavior)…
October 21, 2010
Never Major in Minor Things
The New York Times recently reported, “In a magazine article seven years ago, the chief executive of the Journal Register Company, the publicly traded newspaper…
October 19, 2010
The Wolf at the Door
What motivates? In the final analysis, pain and pleasure. We move away from pain, we move toward pleasure. There are as many permutations and ramifications…
October 11, 2010