“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” ~ Isaac Asimov We all see the world through our lenses of perception. Every one of us experiences the world differently because our lenses are shaped by a number of variables: the beliefs…
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on, I can’t believe you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ~ Joe Klaas Recently, I expanded my reading to include books and articles whose premise or concepts are outside of my normal…
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln Are You Happy? A group of friends and I were having a discussion about happiness. Various people took turns chiming in on the topic. One person shared that they were rediscovering what made them happy, another about the fact…
Emotional Intelligence: Opinions are like … There is a famous saying about opinions and what they are like… I will spare you the details and just say that sometimes as a leader you have to wade through the garbage and the noise so you can drill down to the truth of the situation. But who’s…
“So I tried pleasing Mom, I tried pleasing Dad. Tried pleasing those voices, Spinning ‘round in my head!” (Excerpt from the book, I Could Love No One Until I Loved Me) Effort is a good thing…unless you find yourself determining your sense of self-worth and value from it! I am 7 years-old, I am…
I Can’t Belief This!!!! How many times have you said to yourself: I just can’t believe this? Was it after seeing something that didn’t make any sense? Was it after seeing something that outraged you? Maybe it was seeing or experiencing something that you couldn’t explain? One of the models I use with clients is…
Change Your Story – Change Your Life! “Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.” A. Salman Rushdie Have you ever sat in…
My Worldview: It’s What I Make It Mean! Sometimes a quote comes along and just smacks me upside the head. That happened recently when I read this quote from Richard Rohr, “Most of us do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.” I think this is profound, because it quickly…
Gratitude…Relatively Speaking! One of the things I love most about Albert Einstein is that, at times, he was able to to simplify some of the most complex questions or dilemmas we face in our lives. He said this about how our worldview, “One of the most important decisions we make is whether we believe we…
What if… “You may say I’m a dreamer, But I’m not the only one! I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one” John Lennon Years ago there was a series of Hewlett Packard commercials whose tag line were “What If?” Since then, a number of folks have adopted this same…