If only…
Now there are some potentially dangerous words! If only… leads you to spend time and energy focusing on something that didn’t happen. It leaves you regretting — wishing and pining for something that isn’t. And probably can’t be.
My friend and thought-leader Dick Richards, writing in the discussion group dedicated to his excellent book on […]
It’s an old saying, but worth hearing and thinking about again…
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood!
The first step, decide to enjoy yourself.
And often that means leaving behind the many little and large hurts of your chronological childhood. You can’t undo or erase them, but you can transcend them — moving on, giving […]
Heeding your intuition can be risky. How do you know if you have “good” information bubbling up from inside you? Should you trust it? What if you just aren’t sure? Can you be sure with intuition?
Scary stuff!
You can’t really prove intuition — that’s something of an oxymoron isn’t it.
For some intriguing thoughts about intuition, check […]
One of the interesting side-notes to come out of the tragic incident at the Sago Mine in West Virginia last week: Many miners interviewed by the news media told reporters, “I love my job.”
Lousy job. Happy worker.
Now, just how can that be? How can anyone love a job that takes them into the dark, dank, […]
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A recent post addressed the limiting consequences of most self-descriptions. The challenge goes deeper than simply excising self-descriptive labels from your vocabulary.
Anything that follows the words “I am…” is potentially very limiting because I am is both defining and confining. Saying I am declares, to yourself […]
To an optimist the glass is half full. To a pessimist the glass is half empty. To an efficiency expert, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Good glass?
That little ditty might bring a smile to your lips as it did mine. But there is an important point raised by the old […]
I often will be using the term gift in the writings here. Much more on that later.
In the meantime, I must share the following wonderful observation from Rosa Say, who sees the world through the distinctive lens of her Hawaiian heritage and its unusual language.
She writes:
The very best gifts never come wrapped in boxes.
Mahalo, […]
One of the most powerful forces in the universe is the compulsion to say, “Told you so!”
Yes, it’s not enough to be right, to enjoy the smug self-satisfaction of having your superior intellect and judgment validated once again.
No, we feel the irrepressible urge to gloat, to publicly vanquish the foolish misguidedness of another. To […]
You are so much more than your job title, any role description or anything that tries to describe you.
You’re Too Grand for Words
I was delightfully reminded of this by the opening statement on Evelyn Rodriguez’s Biography page: “No one should be constrained by their bio — it’s just a fleeting glimpse of a multidimensional being.” […]
“You don’t have to push the river, it’s already flowing” says Elizabeth Jeffries, a management consultant who found herself pushing her life too hard. She had her saying about the river put into beautiful calligraphy. She hung the declaration over her desk to remind herself to flow with the river not fight against it.
Not having […]