Are you wasting your crisis? Paul Romer, a Stanford Economist, first asked this question. Now I’m asking you. I remember working on a crisis hotline while in college long ago, training others to leverage callers’ crisis into changing their lives. There’s nothing better than a crisis to get someone’s attention. A crisis wakes you up. [...]

Can you trick yourself into changing? Others do. Milton Erickson, a dyslexic psychiatrist used his indirect hypnosis technique to trick his patients to change. He understood the power of our unconscious minds. If we believe it, then we make it true. Erickson could bypass the conscious filters to get the unconscious mind to initiate the [...]

Every so often, I get a call from a parent asking if I can help their child. They tell me how they heard I helped another parent’s child, hoping I can do the same for their child. I listen to what the parent believes is wrong. I am also listening to the restriction in the [...]

What are your values? What are you willing to stand for, fight for and perhaps, die for? Do you travel through life letting it happen? Or, is there a code you live by? You may not even be aware of this code. Yet, when you need to make a tough decision, who or what do [...]