Do you remember the last time you got a cold, and you thought it couldn’t get any worse? After that, you began to feel better. Before getting better, there’s a period when getting worse happens. When you’re feeling sick, nobody … Read More
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A Pain(ful) Conversation
Pain will stop you in your tracks. It makes you sit up and take notice. Hello, I’m here. Remember me? Oh yes, I remember. 13 days ago, I had double hernia surgery performed near my private place. Since then, I’ve … Read More
Take Your Time
“Take your time” is what I say when a client is running late. It sounds counterintuitive because they’re running late, so they should hurry. But by saying take your time, they do, and the pressure is off. We live in … Read More
Making The Best Out of A Bad Situation
We’ve all been in a bad situation. Situations that are out of our control, situations where we’ve made a mistake, or situations where we face the repercussions of someone else’s mistake. Once the initial shock wears off, reality hits. What … Read More
Go Slow Before You Go Fast
We want to go fast from almost the moment we’re born. Once we’re through our newborn phase, we are on the move, fast. We roll to our bellies, learn how to crawl, cruise on furniture, stand up, balance, and then … Read More
Failure Is Only Feedback
Failure doesn’t conjure good thoughts. It means you’ve fallen flat on your face, stopped in your tracks, lost money, or missed that game-winning field goal as time expired. When you have witnesses, it’s double the fun. Michael Jordan said, “I’ve … Read More
Set Your Own Standards
What springs to mind when you see and hear the word standards? Is it A level of quality Things used as a measure Something accepted as typical or average Or is it none of those? The above are definitions of … Read More
How To Spot Truth in a Sea of Misinformation
Information comes at us thick and fast. Some of it is good, but a lot of it is B.S. Estimates indicate that we generate approximately 402.74 million terabytes of information per day. One thousand gigabytes make up a terabyte. Experts … Read More
5 Ways To Keep Getting Back Up
If someone falls down and then gets back up, it’s a comedy. If someone falls and doesn’t get up, it’s a tragedy. Life is a mix of both, but wouldn’t you prefer your life to be a comedy, not a … Read More
3 Ways To Empty Your Stress Bucket
People get the wrong idea about stress because of the negativity surrounding it, which happens when you have too much of it. If you’ve read this far, it’s likely that at some point your stress bucket overflowed. Flipping the coin, … Read More