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What do you do when you feel like you are doing all the right things, actively engaged in a process of improvement for life, yet things are just not happening? I mentioned last time that it starts with a period of quiet reflection and asking yourself the question, “What is your vanity preventing you from…

What do you do when you feel like you are doing all the right things, actively engaged in a process of improvement for life, yet things are just not happening?  I mentioned last time that it starts with a period of quiet reflection and asking yourself the question, “Are you rushing an important process you are engaged in?”…

What do you do when you feel like you are doing all the right things, actively engaged in a process of improvement for life, yet things are just not happening?  I mentioned last time that it starts with a period of quiet reflection and asking yourself the question, “What is life teaching me?” [click link here] My response…

Questions to ask yourself when things don’t happen or stop happening. I’ve been beating the drum recently about calling others out of isolation and into the power of deep dive discussion.  It’s one thing to vent and spill your guts, but it’s an entirely different thing – actually a privilege – to have someone who…

Recently, I’ve pounded away at the real enemy that keeps a lot of us stuck. Call it arrogance, false humility, or ego – it all leads us in the opposite direction of our greatest good because WE CAN’T GET TO THE ANSWERS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO CREATE CHANGE. You may also recall Mandela’s profound quote…

I mentioned in part one of It’s Blowin’ Up that part of playing big is, ironically, getting rid of the part of us that keeps falsely big: the ego. Then I went on to say that ego technically isn’t the bad guy that corrupts our nature, but arrogance is. Of course, none of us would…

Bigger Than We Actually Are “Confidence is attractive, Arrogance is offensive.” I mentioned in part one of Stop playing it Small that part of playing big is, ironically, getting rid of the part of us that keeps falsely big: the ego. According to Freud’s model of the psyche, the id is the primitive and instinctual…

STOP playing it Small…Part Two “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?” –…

STOP playing it Small…Part One Ever get around someone else who just bothers you?  And when you get honest why, it’s because they are doing something or being someone that you too are capable of, but you never reached down deep enough to get it. We roll our eyes, maybe cut them down with a…

Understanding the truth of a situation is important, but there is something equally as important than “truth”. And it is tied into this reality: Humans have a deeper desire to belong. From business partnerships to married couples on the verge of calling it quits, I’ve pleaded with many in conflict to be careful when, where…