I don’t know if you have noticed (and I’m sure you have) that there is a lot of anger in our world. A contentious election is heating up in the US, there are civil wars and brutal conflicts, and drivers are encountering road rage every day. What is our anger about? Anger is an interesting […]
June 22, 2016
Unless You’re a Narcissist, Comparisons Rarely Work
When people engage in comparing themselves to others they rarely come out on top. A Narcissist, on the other hand, has an inflated ego due to an inner world of self-doubt. The narcissistic behavior is an overcompensation for this inner reality. That is not most of us. In my life when I make comparisons to […]
September 23, 2015
Pay Attention To What Grabs Your Attention
We encounter so much information in a day. Thousands of messages, news items, and advertisements flow through our day and if we had to pay attention to all of them our brains would overload. The good news is that our minds filter out much of this and we naturally gravitate towards information that interests […]
November 8, 2014
The Humbling Power of Failure
Biography’s of extremely successful people have often revealed that they have had their share of failures. Steve Jobs was forced out of Apple, the company he founded. J.K. Rowling was living on welfare when she wrote Harry Potter. Tim Ferris was rejected by dozens of publishers before someone took a chance on The […]
October 24, 2014
Your Crazy Thinking and What to Do About It
Let’s admit it. We all have crazy thinking. If you are alive and still breathing, you can’t escape a little crazy thinking now and then. Some people have more crazy thinking than others, and some less. But it’s a universal experience. Sometimes it’s hard to identify in ourselves, but it’s there. We have thoughts that […]