#386 – Who are you: true to yourself or stuck in the past?"This is who I am"/"this is not who I am" sound like powerful, poetic statements. But what do they mean and how do they stunt your growth?In early 2023, confused by perimenopause advice f...
#385 – How is "going it alone" keeping you from wealth?If, as Jim Rohn famously said, "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with," then the money you make will also be that average.I saw this happen in real life with my fath...
#384 – What keeps you tolerating low pay?Whatever your reasons, it all comes down to one: fear.Are you listing every more than reasonable justification for your tolerating less money than you need/want?Ok, I hear you. But now, hear the part of y...
#383 – How does the need to prove keep you stuck?Let's say you're right in a specific thing, and someone says you're wrong. What do you do?Option A: I gather all the evidence, lay out my best arguments, come up with new analogies to make my poin...
#382 – How is your time management robbing you of your earning potential?And no, you don't need to work more in order to make more money. What you need is to stop giving your time away for things that don't benefit you in a clear sense.Whoa, how self...
#381 – Who appointed you keeper of right and wrong?Growing up, you learned to distinguish between two fundamental sets of things: what got you love and attention, and what got you punishment and rejection By age 13, your Ghosts were active in your mi...
#380 – What do you mean when you complain, "it's not fair?"When life gives you lemons, let's be honest, you feel mistreated. At least I do––why me? why now? etcetera.It's the "Unfairness Trap." The culprit? Your Ego. In the Unfairness Trap, you feel...
#379 – How does universal empathy improve your health?When you're going through a tough time, someone's empathy can make a big difference in your experience. But what is empathy, really?It's the capacity to understand someone else's emotional experie...
#378 – What pushes you to ration your empathy?Some people believe that empathy can be toxic: that showing it to one person takes it away from another.That belief is what's toxic. If empathy were a finite resource, then we'd sure need to be caref...
#377 – What will stop you from quitting?We often trace a cause-effect relationship where there is none. The erroneous conclusions we then draw will make us question the merits of our endeavors.If I write and post a piece on Substack and only 17 peopl...