Michael

Co-misery

The word commiserate comes from Latin: “Com-” meaning with + “miserari” meaning to lament (from “miser” which means wretched). We have a […]

Most of our time at work we focus on Do: getting done all the stuff that needs to be done. This is […]

With all of the evil in the world, we could believe things are becoming worse. Or we can recognize that the same […]

We all always want to be happy, growing, and free. We can think about freedom in two ways. There’s freedom from the […]

Cognitive dissonance unconsciously drives us to twist things to match our beliefs about ourselves, each other, the situation, and the world. We […]

When our buzz is low, we can’t leap to the high buzz we want. Frustrated to Elated, for example, is too big […]

What we expect to happen tends to happen. No sense in expecting the worse, then, eh? It’s time we start to curate […]

If we react to what we see happening around us with hate, anger, or blame (no matter how righteous), we will only […]

We might push, posture, protect, or prattle to get results in a meeting. Or we can let go, listen, learn, and lean […]

We spend way too much time and energy trying to get others to behave so that we feel better. Far better is […]