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Why I Celebrate Thanksgiving
Why I Celebrate Thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving! On a day that is about remembering hurts for some people and abstaining from gratitude, I want to share why I celebrate Thanksgiving. To help to show the benefit of celebrating Thanksgiving, let’s look at why some people are sitting it out. Atoning for Our History of Genocide It’s…
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Let Go of These 5 Creativity Killers
Let Go of These 5 Creativity Killers Creativity is an under-rated intelligence. If you want to succeed and remain mentally flexible, you have to exercise this skill like you would any other. So, let’s look at these 5 creativity killers so we can let them go! Worst Creativity Killers Perfectionism. Most people who strive for…
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Letting Go of Unrequited Soul Mate Love
Is there anything worse than the unrequited soul mate love? You’ve found your person. You know you are destined to be together. You have nightly adventures together in your mind. Nothing has ever felt so sure or real. You just can’t believe he doesn’t know it. When will he wake up and realize your shared…
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Reining In Your Emotional Reactivity
All humans are emotional. We just don’t all show it in the same way. If you have a quick, dramatic outbursts or shifts in emotions that can be overwhelming, we call that “reactive.” What a lot of people don’t understand about emotional reactivity is that it’s not a choice. It’s a trigger that fires and…
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How Cultivating Humility Can Make You a Better Person
In an age of: speak up; stand strong; stand out; go big; play to win, and succeed at any cost, cultivating humility may seem like a liability. However, cultivating humility can make you a better person. To wrap your head around that, let’s take a look at what it means to have humility. The word…
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How to Avoid Death By Small Disappointments
Most people don’t lose the light in their eyes in one day. It’s more of a death by small disappointments. Little by little, life leaks out in a drip, drip, drip of unnoticed little things. It’s a huge void by the time it’s noticed. Sound familiar? Here’s How To Stop It Do something that makes…
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Why You Need More Than Willpower to Thrive
Cultivate Healthy Habits Kicking Yourself For Being Weak? “Just do it” makes a good slogan to sell workout gear, but it’s just not that realistic for most of us. The Brain is Lazy First off, the brain is lazy. Willpower works in the short term and early in the day, but when the brain gets…
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Three Easy Tips for Building Massive Momentum To Reach Your Dreams
Inspiration is as fragile as a puff of wind. The spark can go out because of doubt, distraction, or paralysis by analysis. Whether you want to build a space colony or build a better version of yourself, here are three easy tips to build massive momentum. Just Get Started There are all sorts of reasons…
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Tackling Your Pile of Stuff Like a Boss!
Start and End at Zero It’s fall, time to let go. And today I am tackling a pile of stuff that has gotten out of hand. My goal is always to start and end the day at zero, meaning that I start with a clean slate and forgive, release, clean before going to bed. But…
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Why Some People Find Healing a Challenge
Are You Blocking Your Success? It’s funny because I’ve been in the trauma treatment business over twenty years. As far back as when I was an intern, I was dumped on and given the “hard-to-help,” so called “treatment resistant” clients, but those weren’t the clients who had a hard time changing. No, they just weren’t…
