What did I just say to myself? I heard in my self-talk, a message very similar to what I heard a lot when I was a child. A phrase that my mother used to say often, ‘Money doesn’t grow on trees’. It is amazing how...
Self-knowledge and having awareness of our styles and patterns are the only gig in town as far as I am concerned for those of us who want to be successful in any area of life we choose. Knowing and having an eye on our habits,...
I want to talk about regret. I know this feeling. I am very familiar with it. Regret is defined as ‘a feeling of sadness, repentance, or disappointment over an occurrence or something that one has done or failed to do’. It has been something that...
We are not born good or bad thinkers. We are born with a potential for good or average thinking skills relative to other factors. The brain will become whatever potential it achieves based upon the inputs we are exposed to in the world. Thinking is a...
“Then as we age, we get a little more resistant to putting our ideas out there for fear of ridicule or whatever other social consequence may appear around the corner.” Jumping into something deeply desired can be challenging, but it sure as hell shouldn’t be, right?...
Close your eyes…… What would it mean to you to have more self-confidence? How would your life change and what would you be able to do if you had more self-confidence? Would you like to become unstoppable? What the hell is self-confidence and who is anyone...
‘I want to change my career’, I hear many of my clients say as we begin the coaching relationship. ‘Great! Get ready to feel uncomfortable’, is how I respond. But can we really expect any change in our lives to feel comfortable? With a change...
Let’s close our eyes and think about life. How many things could we not do because of a lack of self-confidence or how many things we did thanks to self-confidence? Confidence, or lack of it, is an issue that comes up again and again in...
People are looking for an answer to their problems. Existential angst is ever-present in the world. Most people search outside of themselves for the answer to internal problems. People try many things. Many people leap towards taking actions and adventures, things outside of themselves as...
I want to talk about friendship today. I can remember going to school in my suburban neighborhood. On the first day, I was unhappily thrown into a class with absolute strangers. These were people I had never met before in my short life. These other children...