Change is scary. This is one truth we all share. Some changes give us the same feeling as the big drop on a roller coaster, scared and thrilled at the same moment, Other changes are just plain uncomfortable. I understand that. Some of us take great pride in remaining stuck; “My parents did it this way, it […]
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You work hard. You come through in a pinch. Your co-workers and upper level management know you can be counted upon to do the right thing. So how come there is so little joy from your work? This is not an experience unique to you. And this feeling is not restricted to people in large firms: the same experience is
Integrity is a word I hear coming out of my mouth very often. I hear it more often in my own head as I ask myself “Am I standing in my integrity about this?”. Have you ever thought what integrity is, let alone what integrity is in your life? We certainly cannot insist others live up to
You have a story about your life. I have a story about my life. Everyone has a story about their life; who they are, why they do what they do, and they (we) tell that story all the time. We tell it to anyone who will listen, sometimes they are listening unwillingly, but most of all
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Is it impossible to be forever young? Yes it is; at least in concept. You see every three days our body changes over our cells, out with the old, in with the new. We see the same process being used in stem cell work. Stem cells are non-specific in what they do. They can be
We project. We project our feelings. We project our feelings on others, and hold them responsible for what and how we feel. This is the basis of judgement towards other people. If we are afraid that we do not drive as well as we think we do, we are very intolerant of other peoples driving
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It’s no secret, one of the most insidious things to overcome is our own image of our bodies. Does this seem superficial to you? Nothing is superficial when it works right to the depths of how we feel about ourselves. As with so many of our “issues” the idea of how our body should look
Can you imagine what it was like to live in a time when the earth was flat, the sun revolved around the earth and it was impossible for humans to fly except in mythology? The truth is those days and these days are not all that different. The people I have described were people of
You know what your hot button is; it is that topic which when raised raises your blood pressure and lowers your capacity to think clearly, in inverse proportion. Where do these hot buttons originate? Now that is difficult to say, but they have to do with some issue or event in your past which has left a
We often get so wrapped up in finding a solution for a specific issue we forget what the original question was. We find ourselves solving problems which were not part of the original question, and solving those problems quite wonderfully to be sure, then we look back and realize the original issue remains unresolved. I have
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