Fear and Ability

It is irrational to expect someone to change his or her behavior based on nonexistent feedback. – John A. Allison I’ve often heard, and sometimes said, “You can only fix the problems you know about.” While I could go into awareness and the importance of paying attention and asking good questions, I’d rather alert you…

If you’re even willing to believe it’s possible, how do you transform negative interpretations about a situation, that you seem to keep holding? The answer, or at least part of the answer, is to uncover the story you have about how, somehow or another, holding on to that interpretation serves you (generally, serves your emotions)….

It’s easier to forego temptation than it is to stop after only a bit. For example, it’s easier to not have any ice cream at all, than it is to eat just the “recommended portion.” In these situations inertia serves us. If we’re standing still in relation to something  (for example, the ice cream in…

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. – Jonas Salk We are made to love, to create, to work and toil and then recover, recharge and appreciate and begin again. The only way we get to begin again is to finish what we start. So, work hard, finish,…

“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Your greatness is measured by your horizons. – Michelangelo Greatness is not what you’ve done, it’s what you aspire to, plan to, and believe you will, do.