I think we’re present in the wrong emotions. All of us are experts in obsessing over things we forgot to do, did wrong, or can’t control. We perseverate on our failings more than anything else, and I guess that’s about survival: study what went wrong so you can … Read more...
Your Hidden Bonus
That thing you have in your work history that doesn’t fit?
It’s an asset.
Think about it. Everyone’s applying to the same jobs with the same proposal of qualifications, trying to match their lives to the ambitious bullet points in the job requirements as perfectly… Read more...
Cold Showers
If you want to see real change in yourself, start taking cold showers.
When you take a cold shower (or turn the water ice cold at the end as I do), you’re operating from your future self.
Your future self knows how invigorated you will feel after a cold shower. Your future se… Read more...
What to do with Bad Feelings
I learned long ago that the bad feelings don’t go anywhere, especially if you try to pretend they’re not there. You
No, the only option, really, in order to get them out, is to let them live inside of y… Read more...
How to be More Innovative
A client of mine wanted to inspire her colleagues to be more innovative so she took a survey of 1,000 staff to find out what they needed in the workplace to tap into their creativity and ingenuity.
400 people responded and what they said really surprised her.
She expected to get ba… Read more...
Passive Revenue
We’re all on a quest for passive revenue – to make money while we sleep, but I’m starting to think that this is not the right aspiration for us.
We like to hate our work – it’s a widely accepted belief in greeting cards and on TV shows, for example &#… Read more...
Getting Into the Well
I’m terrible at leaving parties.
I can’t end a conversation in the middle. And the more I learn the deeper I want to go. That’s why saying goodbye really ends up being hello again; you can reel me in with a quick aside.
I don’t try to get as much as I can fr… Read more...
Seeing Things Clearly
Life is full of transitions that connect the significant memories in our lives.
You can think of transitions like doors and the memories as the rooms on each side of the doors. There is a near-infinite amount of rooms but we tend to dwell on the same few, which makes this exercise… Read more...
The Happiness Mascot
Happiness is the ultimate goal almost all the time. We work toward Happiness in our career, in our love life, in our family life. We clean up, build things, fix stuff, take on challenges,
What Do You Get For Being Good?
What do you get from being good?
If this were an easy question to answer, I suppose there would be more good in the world.
When you work out, you get muscle.
When you eat, you get energy.
When you do art, you get what you created.
Being good, doesn’t directly correlate with anyt… Read more...