#317 – Whose standards are you measuring your life by?Comparison is the Ego's main expression. It decides whether you're safe or not depending on where you stand in regard to others. It measures your "resources" (re: beauty, money, thinness, youth, y...
#316 – How does "should" destroy your peace?I first learned about the destructive power of "should" during my coach training, back in 2019. The students' chairs formed a circle in a windowless conference room in the Times Square Marriott Marquis, gra...
#315 – How will absolute forgiveness change you?We tend to think of "forgiveness" as something we do when others or ourselves behave in a way that has a negative consequence. Like, "you hurt me; I forgive you."My A Course In Miracles lesson...
#314 – What part of you opposes infinite patience?A leader's "sense of urgency" is touted as the root of big business successes––think, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, or Jack Welch. Like other leadership values, this "sense of urgency"...
#313 – Who would you be with firmer boundaries?I've heard people complain about others not respecting their boundaries, but were those 'others' truly overstepping, or were the boundaries not firm enough?Once I got my first computer, I sold my el...
#312 – What do you expect from the world?As a coach, I used to ask clients how they wanted to feel. Knowing that one can't change the world, I'd help them change how they felt about it.Often, clients responded with, I want to feel supported, loved, s...
#311 – What does the Ghost of Misplaced Guilt want from you?Like the other rent-free tenants in your mind, the Ghost of Misplaced Guilt (GoMG) wants only one thing: to keep you small. Corralled, because it thinks it's safer.To achieve that, it m...
#310 – What in you opposes your resilience?According to the American Psychological Association's website, "Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, em...
#309 – Who's at the wheel when people seem "difficult?"When certain people bother you because you find them "difficult," look inside yourself.We're all triggered by things that other people do or don't do, at times. But, as the owners of those t...
#308 – How do you know your decision was right?Decision-making has become a science.According to my Claude.ai assistant, 5,000 to 7,000 books were published, around 90 TED Talks were given, and 500 to 700 formal courses exist on the subject.I don't k...