If you plan to make resolutions for the coming year, make it worth your while. Don’t just dream and dash off a wish list. Give yourself the gift of New Year’s resolutions that truly give you the life you imagine.
Here’s how.
The following seven powerful techniques will help you take the resolutions you make for the […]
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Earlier this week, I saw a wonderful production of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. It reminded me of this important idea: Sometimes, there is a large gulf between how we see ourselves and how others see us.
The delightful play was adapted from Dickens’ novel […]
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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.” […]
A call from a distraught colleague — let’s call him Ted — raised one of those oft-heard, vexing issues that so many of us must eventually face in one way or another.
Burn-out: Rekindle or Redirect Your Energy
“I’m so burned out I can’t stand it,” he lamented. “I have no energy, no desire, no […]
“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 […]
Being open with another person can be frightening. You are so vulnerable, so exposed.
Check out this essay on openness by Dan Oestreich. In it, he describes openness as:
…an effort to touch, connect with and engage another person. It is the opposite of accusing, which is based on judging others and protecting oneself through separation.
By […]