She was absolutely wrong regarding when we were having our phone meeting (I went back and doublechecked) and it took all my control not to send her an email to prove it. My ego was begging me to showher I was right. And there’s this person in my life who has radically...
My cat Nala has no fear of the unknown, in fact he craves it. He’s forever sneaking into the crevice of acabinet opening where he has no business going; he’s gotten stuck numerous times. He never tellshimself, “You haven’t tried that before, it might not work out for...
What’s the first thing you do when making morning coffee or brushing your teeth? As creatures of habit, we tend to do the same things in the same way over and over again. Move a wastebasket and paper hits the floor because we’re used to tossing paper where the basket...
Remember Etch a Sketch, the fun drawing toy for kids? Whether your drawing was great or awful, allyou had to do was turn it upside down and shake and everything vanished, you got to start over. And how does that relate to anything in particular? Think of a situation...
In a class I was teaching the other day I asked everyone to share one of the best pieces of advice they’d ever received. A young woman floored me with a comment from her grandmother, “Comparison is the thief of joy.” What do you think? My first inclination was to...
“If you want to test your memory,” said George F. Burns, “try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” Let’s make it easier, try to think about something that really worried you two weeks ago? One week ago? Yesterday? Worry depletes energy, and...
