Category: self-help

  • Sometimes we try too hard

    I don’t know. It’s difficult to say “I don’t know” when we’re battling a fragile ego and don’t want to reveal the truth.  It’s not always easy to confront our ignorance and get to work to change the situation.  And it’s all too easy to feign ignorance when we’re looking for a fast excuse to…

  • Disrupt the pseudo-reasonableness of the status quo

    Master the art of the possible. Let go of yesterday, and look beyond today. What are your dreams?  What is the tomorrow you were meant to create?  What biases and false assumptions block your way to that better future?  What influences – from without and within – obscure your sight and confuse your mind? Mastering the art…

  • That’s about it!

    Between us and them. The difference between the very rich and the rest of us is that they have more money.   That’s about it. Material possessions can only marginally change our lives.  The rest of the fixes and changes we want in our lives are up to us. Change starts from within.

  • It’s what I control

    I’m not changing their story. I’m changing mine. It takes too much energy to change someone’s story of me.  It doesn’t work anyway.  I’m spending that energy moving forward with my own story.  I prefer to have fun cultivating my own life, than trying to get in line with someone else’s expectations for mine. People…

  • When it’s time for change

    The way we’ve always done it. Habits are helpful until they’re not. Keep checking their freshness label.  Monitor their usefulness. Every now and then we fall into a rut. We get stuck and the world starts passing us by.  We get too comfortable with the way we’ve always done things.  We need regular disruption, regular…

  • It might as well be you

    Whatever your excuse… Someday, someone will overcome it. It might as well be you.   What’s really in your way?