The most powerful thing about demonizing others is that we create a scapegoat for our own fears. The most disempowering thing about having a scapegoat is we no longer have to face our own shortcomings. Learning to improve ourselves With a scapegoat, or someone to blame for what makes us uncomfortable, we by-pass an essential […]
Failure can be success. “Show me a good loser, and I will show you a loser.” These immortal words have driven generations of people to fear the idea of failure. The result has been a culture of blame. Are you crazy? Am I crazy to suggest that failure is simply success in another guise?
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We define self justification as being… making excuses for our actions One of the things we all seem to be good at doing is justifying our actions. More more importantly, we self justify our inactions. At the drop of a hat we can come up with dozens of reasons why we did not do something
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The rage we see displayed through the media today; the rage from people of all walks of life makes me think of this simple phrase: I will be happy when… when what? When all the Jews are gone? Then who will we turn on. When all the people of color are gone? Then who will
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Yep, here we are on the eve of Independence Day for our nation. Most certainly the deeper meaning of this day will get lost somewhere between the bbq and fireworks, so let me take a moment and invite you to think about what independence means; it means to severe the ties the allow others to
The greatest of those we call leaders have had several things in common; they have called us forward into cooperation and called us to see the oneness in ourselves and our world. The weakest of our leaders also have something in common; they prey upon our fears of others and play upon our lowest selves. Of course
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We are all products of our past, no matter how much we want to overcome our past, even our attempts to overcome our past defines us. Every experience we have ever had, even those we did not necessarily experience, but just heard about, are part of our beings today. This is something we cannot get
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When we are “shifting responsibility” it means trying to place blame on someone else through carefully crafted wordsmithing. Call it what you wish, placing the blame on someone else to get us off the hook is bad ju-ju. Look around you, you know someone in your circle who is very skilled at shirking responsibility for
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Why is it we work so hard to come up with solutions to problems only to have them fail? Because too often we are not working on the CAUSE of the problem, we are dealing with the EFFECT of the problem. Think about going to a Doctor because we are having stomach problems. the good
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I checked, and the word Comfortability is not yet in Websters Dictionary, but it should be! Comfortability is the ability to take comfort in your life; to take comfort in love; take comfort in who you are. Have you felt comfortability in your life lately or have you been too busy being what and
