by Rox Bartel | Jan 9, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
Satisficing is good for us. Satisficing helps us navigate choices more effectively and efficiently. Saying no and meaning it may make us happier. “Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are...
by Rox Bartel | Jan 6, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
Look around in awareness. “Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” – James Thurber The 2020 theme of identity continues with my exploration of how we choose to look around at the world and our place in it. In the...
by Rox Bartel | Jan 5, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
Who am I? Or perhaps a better question may be: how may I enjoy who I am? “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson “Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”- Ralph Waldo...
by Rox Bartel | Dec 19, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized
Is truth framing your patterns or are patterns forming your truths? “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” – Galileo The 2020 theme of identity continues with my exploration of who we are...
by Rox Bartel | Dec 5, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized
Make Adversity a Teacher. We have the choice whether to turn every adversity we face into a teacher or make it an accomplice. When we choose accomplice, we only learn to feel helpless. When we choose to consciously make adversity a teacher we set our self up for...
by Rox Bartel | Nov 28, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized
Listening to the Silence reminds us it can be both deafening AND golden. Of course, silence can also be threatening or limiting. The Sound of silence is in the eye of the beholder or the context of the moment. We benefit when we are able to listen to all the nuances....