should – balance

How To Stop Creating Stress

We create our own stress. This is much more than an old self-help chestnut. It is a vitally important insight. Once we […]

One very good way to quiet our Should Engine is to make choices about who we are (or want to be) and […]

It’s like we have two engines inside us: our Should Engine and our Freedom Engine. Both mostly operate without us being aware of them. […]

The General is our internalized voice of external authority that tells us what to do. It “shoulds” all over us with edicts […]

Here are three work-life balance roadblocks and ways to clear them: We see “work” as something we struggle through. We see the […]

Catch yourself when, in making a decision, you say, “I should,” “I ought to,” or “I have to.” Even if we seem […]

Sometimes, no amount of tools, tricks, habits or systems are enough to get us and keep us sane and organized. When that’s […]