Changing our self-mindset is challenging. How do you possibly go from believing an internal story to changing it? One suggestion is both simple and yet challenging to implement: figure out a new story to tell yourself. I heard a suggestion recently that resonates strongly with me. When something negative happens externally, for example someone responds [...]
We can't opt out of the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure that's woven through our daily experiences. Life is vulnerable. ~ Brene Brown, Daring Greatly While life may be vulnerable, we still get to choose how open we are to being vulnerable in our own lives. Will you choose to take more risk in your [...]
I cannot guarantee this is true, but it seems to be. Someone, saying he works for the Canadian Federal Government, said that this was sent to all employees. I will just leave it there for the day. Have a good one!
It's funny that we have a standard work day based on time. Sometimes we might have super productive morning and get as much done as it would an 8 hours the next day. Other times we might spend 2 hours on something that is so mentally or emotionally taxing that we are not much use [...]
In this recent post, I wrote about how 30 Weeks to Awesome came to be. The motivation and nudge to get it done (a course with a contest that would reimburse tuition for said course) and the re-purposing of a course I created previously. In this post I will share why I believe in 30 [...]
“The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many, eliminates the nonessentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things have clear, smooth passage. In other words, Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where [...]
Have you had the experience of looking back upon something and seeing it completely differently from how you felt in the moment? I don't know that we can ever get rid of this perspective shift. As time passes, we become different people. Who we are today is not who we were years ago, and this [...]
What do cyclists, race car drivers, team sports athletes, and business owners all have in common? They must be thinking a few steps ahead of the current action or they will fall flat on their faces, literally or figuratively. If you are a small business owner or indepreneur (a term recently heard from Aubrey Marcus) [...]
I looked at the words on the page. They were good. I had an opportunity before me that would lead me closer to my dreams. I felt like I wanted to throw up. Then I sat down and cried. What the f*ck? After suppressing my feelings, there they were. I couldn't hide from them anymore. [...]
I am working on a puzzle. I bought this frustrating mind jumble sometime last year, thinking it would be fun (for an unknown reason given that I cannot recall ever choosing to complete a puzzle). It sat on the shelf until one day early in COVID-life when my husband was out of town for work. [...]
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