Subscribe to NSCBlog
Currently Viewing Category:
The Knowing (Self Awareness)
Subscribe to NSCBlog
Five Steps to Your Best Self
You have GREATNESS within you, waiting for you to fully activate it. You want more, know you are capable of more, interested in being better, growing, learning,…
July 23, 2020
Claiming Your Golden Shadow
In Jungian psychology, the “shadow” refers to an unconscious aspect of the personality, everything of which a person is not fully conscious i.e. the shadow…
July 21, 2020
Get Everything You Can… Out of All You’ve Got Now
Too often we focus on our lacks, our weaknesses, on barriers in our way. Doing so flirts with creating a victim identity. If your goal…
July 14, 2020
What is YOUR EMOTIONAL WAKE?
One of the adages of NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) is that “you cannot not communicate”. In other words, we are all constantly “on stage”. Like it or…
July 2, 2020
How to Raise your Happiness Set Point
1. Journal: Awareness is the first step to creating any change. To grow in self-awareness, begin to journal about the “moments of your day”. Write…
June 23, 2020
10 POWERFUL BELIEFS of Successful People
1) There is always a way. There is a solution to every problem. Know this, believe this, and you will find a way to succeed. Maybe…
June 4, 2020
Five Keys to Unlock Your Greatness
You have GREATNESS within you, waiting for you to fully activate it. You want more, know you are capable of more, interested in being better, growing, learning,…
May 28, 2020
Six Toxic Relationship Beliefs
“A good relationship doesn’t have problems; if it is meant to be, things work out on their own.” “Couples who are in love, who have…
May 26, 2020
Excuses for Failure Aplenty…Unheeded
Absentminded i.e. quite capable of driving to the grocery store and coming home empty handed Spent a fair portion of each day lost in own…
May 21, 2020
Resilience 101: Consciously Building Your Coping Skills Before Life Tests You
In life, it is inevitable that we will have valleys we must walk, times of despair, defeat and discouragement. These journeys will be easier, these…
May 19, 2020
10 Things the Most Successful People Are Always Doing
1. Planning their Lives, Working their Plan. Ordinary folks with a plan will go further than a genius without a plan. Most folks go the…
May 14, 2020
Back to The Well
To go “Back to The Well” is to go back to the source of something valued, anything that nourishes you, replenishes your strength. When the storm…
May 12, 2020
Understanding the Overton Window
The Overton window is the range of generally accepted, politically or socially, ideas in a culture or sub-culture. This window moves over time: “Positions which…
May 7, 2020
Problem Blindness
One obstacle with solving problems is when we can’t or won’t see the problem aka “problem blindness”. Problem blindness’s most common form is when something…
April 21, 2020
Things Mentally Strong People Do
They Release Allowing the emotions of a situation or event to stay behind, to deliberately choose to NOT carry them forward with you is incredibly…
April 14, 2020
The Healthy Upside and Potential Downside of Amour Proper
Amour proper is French and means literally “self-love”. As a philosophical concept, it is found in the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Blaise Pascal, La Rochefoucauld…
April 2, 2020
A Faster Horse
“If I had asked people what they wanted they would have said a faster horse.” – Henry Ford 1863-1947 We don’t always fully understand what…
March 17, 2020
The Stories We Tell
Take a moment and reflect back upon the life stories you return to, that repeat in your mind, that define you. These “root stories” create…
March 10, 2020
Six Decision Traps that have Killed
The following are six decision mistakes (traps) that smart people have made that lead to avalanche deaths: Social Facilitation: Once a behavior is established as…
January 28, 2020
Use “DEADS” to add Life to Your Life
How do your modify your behavior? Especially deep-seated habits and patterns that seem to operate of their own volition? Well, first, awareness both around the…
January 16, 2020
Accepting Help
This blog is in many respects a mea culpa, an acknowledgement of a personal growth opportunity. In the past, I’ve frequently been challenged to accept…
January 9, 2020
Forget New Year’s Resolutions
Better a small promise kept than a larger one broken. Most New Year’s Resolutions fail because they are lofty goals with insufficient foundation. If it…
January 2, 2020
Breaking out of Ego Jail
Do you see ego as a reflection of yourself, something you need to defend and protect? Or do you see ego as a tool? A…
December 31, 2019
Silly Mental Mistake Smart, Sophisticated Folk Fall For
The smarter you are, the more likely you are to turn your nose up at success techniques that seem too simple or too straightforward. The…
December 24, 2019
Hard Goals/Soft Goals
Are your hard goals aligned with your soft goals? A hard goal is a desire for a promotion, a new car or house, a new…
December 19, 2019
31,557,600 Seconds
There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year or 525,960 minutes or 8,766 hours. We are all granted the exact same amount of seconds, minutes, and…
December 10, 2019