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The Provocative Power of Plateaus
Most of my life I’ve lived with mood swings. Bigger, wilder, and scarier in my youth, milder and moderated in my mature years, the benefit…
August 8, 2019
Your Personal Narrative: Friend or Foe?
Your Personal Narrative is your life story or more precisely, how you choose to interpret your life story: the story you tell yourself about yourself…
August 6, 2019
The Games People Play: Trapped by Drama No More
To be able to “call” a mind game as it unfolds is the first step to being able to step outside the game and assume…
July 23, 2019
Epistemological Humility
Epistemic means anything dealing with knowledge. Epistemic humility is: 1) Accepting that there will always be many things about which we are ignorant and that’s natural…
July 11, 2019
Before Tattoo on the Body, Tattoo in the Mind
Norman Vincent Peale relates a story in his book, ‘Power of the Plus Factor’: While in Hong Kong, I came upon a tattoo studio in…
July 2, 2019
Beware the Twin Scourges: “Destination Disease” and “Someone Sickness”
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their mind to be. The twin scourges are two ways you can choose to put…
June 27, 2019
The Label Becomes the Experience
The words we choose to describe a situation powerfully frame our experience of that situation. Words can either sting or sooth. One can be happy…
June 20, 2019
The Hardest Thing
They say, “fish discover water last”. For example, we become so adapted that things disappear into the background and we lose awareness of them. Learning…
June 11, 2019
Sidestepping the Arrival Fallacy Trap
The Arrival Fallacy is when we finally achieve a desired goal; something we worked long and hard for and… Somehow, it is not all we…
June 6, 2019
How Well Do You Know You?
Write down three pivotal experiences in your life. Why were they pivotal? How have they impacted you? If not positive, how could they be re-framed? List…
June 4, 2019
Your Identity Drives Your Behavior
Who are you? How do you define yourself? How would you describe yourself? Do you like your answers? The words you choose, the associated mental…
May 30, 2019