Did you know that there’s a website where you can send your future self an email? There are two things that make this site interesting. One, you can write yourself an email that will be sent back to you at a future date of your choosing. You can send along whatever: encouragement, love, a kick […]
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I once had a roommate who was followed by death. She was a bit older then I was at the time, I in my mid-twenties, she in her mid-fifties. Susan was an interesting woman that went on dates almost every night of the week, travelled extensively, and had a beautiful condo in Chicago. She didn’t
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I remember a client working in sales saying to me, ‘But I’m not a sales person.’ Imagine the affect of not identifying with what you are trying to accomplish? Another example, someone attempting to quit smoking while saying, ‘But deep down inside I’m really a smoker.’ Identity can undermine or strength goals and that’s why
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Enjoy this wonderful video by filmmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis. Let me know what you think of it… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&w=760&h=340]
All human cultures have had some form of music, in fact, music predates agriculture. It is a universal language that has the power to change our experience of the world around us. I have playlists that I’ve created for different times in my life, different moods, or to generate different states. Check in with how
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Someone once asked me how any therapist or coach earned the ability to give advice to others? I think the exact phrasing was, “What the hell gives you people the right to tell others how to live their lives?!” Obviously, this person had had a bad experience (which he went on to explain.) Our conversation
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YekkGz1E2k] Janet Echelman gives a great Ted talk. It conveys, if you read between the lines, the creative process. When it comes to creation, you have to let go all the time. You have to have ideas and then release them…allow them to play out and then cut them loose if they don’t belong within
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Motivational speaker and business growth expert Steven S. Little points out that we choose our heroes based not on their wealth accumulation or accolades but on something else. We remember our heroes for their effort, their values, and their ideas. We don’t remember how much money they made, but we recall the steps they took
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Poetry and spoken word are one of many art forms that can take us to a place beyond our logical thinking minds and into our emotional, if you will, deeper self. Art communicates in a layered way that our whole selves can absorb (if we’re paying attention.) I want to share this rich piece by
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