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What is your Ikigai?
Ikigai (ee-kee-guy) is a combination of the Japanese words ‘iki’ (to live) and ‘gai’ (reason) literally meaning ‘reason to live’. What constitutes a fulfilling life…
July 18, 2024
Try the Other Handle
“Every event has two handles—one by which it can be carried, and one by which it can’t. If your brother does you wrong, don’t grab…
July 16, 2024
Do You Ask Dirty Questions?
In this context, a Dirty Question is one that either: contains the biases and assumptions of the questioner or presupposes/directs the answer or is judgmental/critical…
July 11, 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
Be the Bee, Not the Fly
How you approach life powerfully impacts the life you experience. Do you stand outside yourself and observe how, in ways small and large, you are…
July 4, 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 We Need is a Bigger Hammer…NOT!
The ‘Bigger Hammer’ approach is simplistic thinking that blithefully assumes that more of the same, just increasing intensity or scale, will work. It is a…
June 27, 2024
Difficulties in Telling Truth to Power… even when Power Wants to Listen
I recently managed to lose $12 million dollars in just over two years. Since the biggest mistake is the one you don’t learn from, I…
June 25, 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
Seeing Souls Instead of Bodies
What if what folks saw was your soul, not your body? What would they think? How would you present? What would YOU see in the…
June 18, 2024
The Fallacy of Projecting What Was onto What Is
The ability to fully release the past is a true superpower, one within the grasp of all. Who we were yesterday need bear no relevance…
June 13, 2024