As I sat getting a stick up my nostril for a COVID test, I distracted myself by reading the sign on the doctor’s wall. “These instruments are expensive to replace. Please do not touch them.” Would that have motivated you to touch them, not touch them or …? Your reaction has a lot … [Read more...] about Eight ways to amp up your motivation, even and especially if it’s in the dump right now
My heart is cracking, my blood is churning and my sense of outrage is in overdrive. Here is a request for my white friends and colleagues to stand up for our friends of colour. We are in the mix and middle of a powerful time in history. Rage from historic racism and injustice has boiled … [Read more...] about To my white friends and colleagues
“How we make sense of the world, is in part based on how we make sense of ambiguity, that hazy space between ignorance and daily rituals,” says Jamie Holmes in his excellent book Nonsense: the Power of Not Knowing. Are you wondering how to put up with ambiguity? Then find through this simple mantra … [Read more...] about How to be okay when things are not okay
What’s your tolerance for ambiguity? How comfortable are you with not knowing? With operating in that gray fuzzy space of uncertainty? And related to this, how high is your need for closure, your need for certainty, for knowing? Until I’d read Jamie Holmes’ excellent book … [Read more...] about What’s your tolerance for ambiguity? (And why it’s key to know)
Last week I shared 4 signs your blind spots are biting you. Hint; they include telling signs like batcrap craziness, grinding teeth, biting your tongue and banging your head against the wall. Being aware of your blindspots is one thing. Knowing what to do about them is a whole other ball … [Read more...] about 4 ways to take a bite out of your blind spot
How many of these ring true for you? Your colleague, employee, friend, partner and/or kid (take your pick) is driving you batcrap crazyYour anger is surging and you’re seething. It feels like you could break a tooth from grinding your teeth in frustration so much. You’re … [Read more...] about 4 signs you’re getting bitten by your blind spots (and what to do about it)
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The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
