Living the good life.Who isn’t interested in that?The problem is, living the good life as it’s been presented to us through the media over the years seems to be more and more out of reach with each passing day.Headlines scream doom and gloom 24/7 and have been since I can remember. Another recession is looming!…
For anyone on an intentional path of self-discovery and personal transformation, letting go of what no longer works is an essential part of the process. As we imagine what we want to become, what we are and what we have been don’t serve us. We must ask: What is one idea of yourself you need…
To get anywhere new in life, you have to put yourself in the path of something. There’s no other way around it and you won’t know how it’s going to turn out. The fun is in finding out what happens when you’re out there. While achievement isn’t as simple as following a 1-2-3-4 set of…
Decision making mistakes aren’t always the end of the world. Sometimes bad decisions lead us to our greatest growth. It’s part of the whole “fail fast” movement first popularized by sales expert Tom Peters and explored in articles like this one by John Donohue in the New Yorker. The basic idea is that the faster…
With F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby back on the silver screen this week – all pimped out with a hard core soundtrack featuring Jay Z – it’s hard not to get swept up into the seductive excesses of 1920’s America…and think about how familiar it all seems (Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, anyone?) That…
I don’t know about you, but it seems that just when I get things moving in the right direction, the Lizard comes along and tries to derail my efforts. I am talking about my Lizard Brain, that primitive part of my noggin that wants to stifle and destroy anything that threatens it and my survival….
