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Creating sustainable change, creating what we want
Image via Wikipedia Change requires determination, sometimes like that of a competitive endurance athlete. An article in National Geographic Adventure on how to get through adversity, tells the story of how Rosie Stancer attempted to be the first woman to travel solo to the North Pole. She didn’t achieve her goal, but she did…
Image via Wikipedia Revolutionaries don’t just burn the rules. They write new ones. In destroying the standard, they create the standard. It’s creative destruction at its finest. This quote comes from Jon Morrow’s, an Associate Editor of Copyblogger post: The Courage of Being Wrong. Jon doesn’t mention in the post, but he is writing from personal…
What do you feel? What do you want? How often do you ask yourself these questions? How often do you ask others these questions—if you’re like me, probably not often enough. These questions are the portals to knowing where you are and what to do about it. If you’re like the rest of us, you…
Image via Wikipedia How to release loss Loss or grief is one of the three primary emotions – anger and fear are the other two. You may reduce your chances of loss, but you will lose. Relationships change, people die, change happens. You can try to live a monastic life, but loss will find you….
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…
