Stating the Case At some point, you have undoubtedly benefitted from a frank conversation with a trusted confidant, which leads to breakthrough growth.   While you may have incredible affection for that person and share incredibly intimate details of your life, that person is likely not a therapist, life coach, family member, or friend.  They are mentors who enable growth you

We are halfway through the year, and too many of us have made inadequate progress toward our goals. Previously, we have examined enemies of accomplishment, such as fear, discipline, and competing priorities. Today, we address overcoming other impediments. Failure to Launch It is time to start if you have not thought about your goals since your New Year’s Eve toast.

Who Is the Fairest One of All? The issue is not possessing the Evil Queen’s vanity but our negative internal voice.  Too often, we talk to ourselves more critically than we would ever speak to someone else.     Of course, the parents who said, “You will never amount to anything,” the schoolyard bullies who teased you about your high-water pants, or

Cause Rather than proudly don a (non-Hawthorne) Scarlet A, I shamefully cloaked myself with the lamentable Crimson S.  Admittedly, today’s message is a little more “Why and How-To” than my usual messages due to my prior unhealthy relationship with the issue.   Scarcity and abundance exist in every situation; our perspective decides which prevails and directs our actions. Our survival instinct

Many start the day leaping out of bed as if shot out of a cannon.  Running through our minds is a myriad of urgent obligations, and we send our brains into overdrive by first checking our phones for “vital” messages and “consulting” social media.   We want to start the day on the right foot but mostly ignore the one thing

What to make of it? The Stoics Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius both commented that it isn’t the events that disturb people but their judgments about them.    This principle is evident as I write these words from the terrace of our accommodations in Barcelona, Spain.  I hear vehicles rumbling down the street, construction noise, and people scurrying about shopping or commuting