When I’m working on personal change, as I assess myself and the world around me, a lot of things start happening. I’m hyperaware of people behaving the way I’m trying to change. I see it everywhere. In fact, I can't not see it! So, I get a little irritated by their poor choices. Then, I… Continue reading When Feeling Hyperaware is a Good Thing
There’s an unexpected and strange happening as we walk the path of growth and healing. What once sat well with us, no longer does. The disruption, chaos, or discomfort that didn’t bother us before, now causes irritation, frustration, and anger. And we may even find times we can’t understand the sudden sadness, resentment, or fear… Continue reading Nudged Out of Neutral
Sometimes, like it or not, we can’t stop our feelings. Yeah, times like these, our feelings interrupt our best intentions for change. Intended changes, in perception, attitude, reaction, and action we’d like to happen, get derailed as strong feelings hijack our focus for attempt to introduce new behavior. Jealousy, insecurity, perceived unfairness, disrespect, abandonment, or… Continue reading I Can’t Stop This Feeling
Mistakes have become a dirty word. Inappropriately so! Mistakes are part of the machine of learning. Rare you will find in history immediate and complete perfection on the first try. If you do, please share it with me. 😉 Brilliant mistakes have given this world some amazing gifts. Like penicillin, the pacemaker and the beloved… Continue reading Accepting Mistakes and Not Giving Up
New attitude. New outlook. New way of being. A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.Antoine De Saint-Exupery New. New. New. Defined as “not existing before; made, introduced, or discovered recently or now for the first time”, and also, “just beginning or beginning… Continue reading The Awkwardness That Comes with Personal Change
When we break free from the popular social norms to live what feels genuine in us, the way we see ourselves in comparison to others changes too. Social comparison provides us a way to evaluate our progress, and now, what used to work and provide guidance, no longer fits. An arrogant person considers himself perfect.… Continue reading Redefining Social Comparison When We Break Free From Social Norms
It's a new day. We've had a significant shift in self-awareness and we're on a new path. We're committed to growing into the life we want, a life we believe is possible. So, what do we do next? There is one simple thing we can do. We become a better observer. Here I give caution… Continue reading Becoming a Better Observer
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."Winston S. Churchill Life is… Continue reading The Joy and Glory of the Climb
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