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How Many You’s Make Up You? Which You Do You Answer To?
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
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
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
What Do You Feed Daily?
Virtually everything in your life is there because in some way you participated in or acquiesced in its creation. It may not have been a…
June 20, 2024
Extraordinary Comes From How You Do the Day-to-Day Ordinary
Most of us have heard the quote attributed to Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”…
May 21, 2024
You Get To Choose What You Think About
Yes, you can choose your thoughts. And yes, to a certain extent, it is a learned skill set but one anyone can acquire if the…
May 2, 2024
Is it Still Your Biggest Rock?
‘Biggest Rock First’ refers to putting your most important priorities on your schedule first and then fitting other, lesser priorities in around them, a time/energy/life…
April 30, 2024
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
The quote is by the poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019, Pulitzer Prize winner) and the elegant beauty of it always spoke volumes to me. I live…
April 23, 2024
Practice is a Skill
Or more fully stated: ‘effective practice is a learnable skillset’. It may sound like heresy, but not all practice is good practice or at least…
April 9, 2024
Will is a Skill
For many of us and for much of our lives we have absorbed the concept that willpower, along with its close cousin, self-discipline, is an…
April 4, 2024
Baker’s Dozen
Recently, I was asked: “What is the most valuable piece of advice you would give to anyone new at TCC who is looking to grow…
April 2, 2024