Ignoring our blind spots while driving is not a wise thing to do. In fact, it’s downright dangerous if left unchecked. And our psychological blind spots can be just as hazardous, mainly because we don’t believe we have them. As an example, I can tell you right now I...
Have you ever felt really annoyed with yourself for judging a co-worker, losing your patience with a friend, or something else entirely, instead of cutting yourself some slack? Usually when we’re frustrated with ourselves we try to ploy through the emotion, and at the...
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...
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...
Research indicates we think 60,000 thoughts a day and around 90% of those are repeats, which makes sense since our brain has to selectively filter out much of what comes our way to stop us from suffering overload. However, have you thought about where your 90% come...
Years ago, I attended a conference where Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series was speaking. He asked all of us to stand up, to extend our arms as far as we could to the side and note where we were. Then to repeat, and extend further....
