Precepts that Stick

Precepts that Stick

This week’s theme: PRECEPTS. Rules are made to be broken, when they aren’t serving you. As a rule, you’ll make better choices when you identify, develop, measure and adapt precepts that serve you. Regardless, the key is to make them serve you, NOT...
Experience Can Be Golden

Experience Can Be Golden

Experience can be golden if you are willing to dig through the treasure. Life offers more powerful lessons to those focused on growing and expanding their self-awareness, even making mistakes, than to those simply trying to prove something to them self or the world....
Wisdom As Teacher

Wisdom As Teacher

Wisdom is a process, not an event. Wisdom is generated through conscious and intentional practice. Furthermore, it’s strengthened by a healthy curiosity. In this week’s podcast episode I talk about the diligence and consistency demonstrated by my maternal...
Optimism: Your Special Sauce

Optimism: Your Special Sauce

Optimism starts and ends with how you think about or process what’s happening to you. Think you’re in danger – you feel anxiety. Think you’re being treated unfairly — you feel anger, sadness or despair. Choose to be optimistic &...
Answers Won’t Move the Needle

Answers Won’t Move the Needle

Arriving at the answer feels good. That said, it’s not in the answers that you discover where you want to be. Instead, consider a practice of inquiry that values reflection and insights that open up doors and windows of thought and possibility. This week’s...
Empathy: the Capacity to Connect

Empathy: the Capacity to Connect

Empathy, when warranted, is a powerful skill worth practicing. Actually, I’m toying with the idea that empathy may be a discipline more than a skill. Clearly, empathy expands your perspective opening lines of communication that support your growth and personal...