Unsqueezing
You can tell you have at least some amount of squeezing off whenever something you want remains stubbornly unachieved. It’s not bad luck or bad …
The Great Threat and Epic Squeezing Off
We tend to squeeze ourselves off from the very things we want. It is as if, when we were young– very young, we looked out …
No Lights Under Bushels, Please
I believe that you can believe that you have limited or no talents. Given the thought habits that we have in our culture and that …
The Grass May Seem Greener
When you are considering a change in your career, you face the “grass is always greener” problem. You can leave for something that may be …
Tell a Better Story than Disappointment and Blame
Disappointment in and blame of others is wasteful and untrue. When you are disappointed in and blame others or life in general, you are telling …
How to Help Another Get Into Action
If you notice that someone is stuck, avoid the temptation to tell them what to do or how to do it. You run a very …
Fear or Love
There are two ways of thinking about anything. You can look at it from the perspective of fear. Or you can look at it from …
How to Silence Your Inner Critic
Our Inner Critic slows our success. It likes to distract us by arguing why something won’t work. It tells us lies about how ignorant, poor, …
Ineffable
We have a word that describes something that cannot be described with words: ineffable. (Funny, isn’t it?) Here are some examples of ineffable things: the …
Comfort Zone Error
In his latest book The Icarus Deception, Seth Godin makes a helpful distinction between our comfort zone and our safety zone. There is usually quite …