Wednesday Wisdom – Failing is for the Brave at Heart

Anyone who hasn’t failed please raise your hand? A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new, Einstein reminded us. Failure is often the result of taking chances, of getting comfortable being uncomfortable for a short period of time. And it’s much more...

Wednesday Wisdoms – A Radical Idea that Still Works

Have you ever heard of the rabbit effect? I hadn’t. In Dr. Kelli Harding’s book scientists did a study on how diet impacts cardiovascular health, using rabbits that were fed a high-fat diet. Surprisingly, there was 60% less damage to one group of rabbits eating the...

Wednesday Wisdoms – Please, just QTIP

I was teaching a class in Connecticut and one woman, sitting in the front row, kept her head down, eyes facing her lap for an hour and a half. It had to be incredibly uncomfortable; she didn’t want to attend my class. A man stood up at the beginning of a two-day...

Wednesday Wisdoms – Regrets

I need another 50 years to get it right, to learn from all my mistakes and to quit being annoyed with the major mistakes I’ve made. But realistically that isn’t going to happen. So, I set off to learn how to let go of regrets of things I didn’t do or did poorly, and...