Why did I do that? Because I didn’t know better. What could I have done differently? Nothing. I could have done nothing differently. Because despite better options, I didn’t choose any of them. Why didn’t I know better? Because my ego told me what I really wanted to hear, overriding better. Is there any hope…
It’s the perfect contradiction between the way things are and the way I want them to be. Take any generally accepted truth. True in every sense of the word. Then apply my personal situation to it and carve out an exception. I know. But in this case, because it’s different and I’m special and I…
You’ve been whining for weeks about those time suckers. Distractions and disruptions have been plaguing you. As soon as you get on a roll someone or something crops up to stop you in your tracks. A minute here. An hour there. Days go by. You know exactly what you want to accomplish, but one by…
Being a teenager is getting tougher by the minute. One of their biggest hurdles is making sense of a world that bombards them with messages about how they should look and feel and behave that don’t align with their own experiences of life. At the same time, they’re navigating significant physical, cognitive, and emotional changes,…
Notice how our bodies tense up and our minds shut down at the first signs of resistance? Something happens that rubs us the wrong way and all bets are off. What someone says, does, doesn’t do, might or might not do triggers us, and we can’t make peace with it. Resistance is a reaction to…
As we go through life, consider the opportunity cost associated with each choice we make. Opportunity cost is an economic term, and it represents the value of our next best option. And we love our options, feeling fortunate to have so many varieties of toothpaste to choose from. Factoring opportunity costs into decisions large and…