What’s Holding Us Back

I have long thought about, and emphasized the importance of, understanding how the three sub-systems of our brain (reptilian, limbic and cortex) work together (and sometimes don’t)  in creating our experience of life. Our experience can be made better, optimized even, if we bring sufficient understanding of how our brain works and awareness to our…

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. – Rene Descartes Anthony Robbins would call the above “chunking.” He would say we should chunk everything down to whatever size necessary to take action on something and complete it. There’s a lot to what he, and Descartes, say. *…

“You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.” – Harvey Firestone No one will follow, willingly and to the best of their abilities and capacities, someone they don’t believe in. People recognize character and integrity, and even more easily, its absence. Before anyone — be they a CEO, parent…

There are two basic motivating forces:* fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot…

If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself.  That thought is the problem. – Stephen Covey Whatever is bothering you out there is something you need to fix inside yourself. You can come to the understanding that there are things outside of yourself that you can either control and make better,…

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson You should spend four times as much time dreaming as you do looking at the past. Really, it’s true, there have been numerous studies that have shown . . . . I’m kidding, there are no studies. And…