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During times of transition, the impatient and stubborn part of us tries so hard to live through my changes, that we forget to actually experience them.  There’s simply no time. What with all the hunkering down and sucking it up and riding it out and thinking to ourselves, sweet merciful crap, I just want this to be over.  But that’s the ultimate cosmic joke. Wishing ourselves out of this world doesn’t…

My coach reminds me that ego is an automatic way of being designed to protect ourselves.  But despite its evolutionary function to build confidence in our abilities develop a sense of personal worth and be proactive with setting boundaries, it’s only a small fraction of the entire being that we are.  In fact, ego will almost always find something to cut the legs out from underneath our success. And…

We live in a productivity obsessed world where dozens of studies, hundreds of books and thousands of articles and have been published on the science of minimizing distraction.  But we shouldn’t underestimate the value of being able to intentionally distract ourselves. Applied judiciously and within the appropriate context, doing can make all the difference in the world.  Consider those individuals with chronic pain or crippling anxiety. Having experienced both…

The scary part about having goals is, once we’ve written them down, we’ve created structural tension.  Existential pressure. A gap between who we are and who we want to be.  Which means, we’re on the hook. There’s an apparatus of accountability that now exists the world, and if we don’t take action toward those goals, it’s going to drive us crazy.  My ritual is to set one hundred goals…

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Anneli’s book on the personal, societal, biological and historical factors that coalesced to spark the secret epidemic of unworthiness is simply revelatory.  Her research found that for those of us who are programmed to undermine our own joy, a moderate amount of fun is okay, but as soon as it rises above a certain threshold, boom, the irony bomb goes off and happiness is dead.  We strive to keep delight…

Net worth is defined as the total assets minus total outside liabilities of an individual.  But that’s purely in economics terms. And any problem that can be solved with money isn’t all that interesting.  From an existential perspective, however, the term has a completely different meaning. Net worth is what you have when everything else goes away.  It’s that which nobody can steal from you. The love you can never lose….

We are not eating for flavor, they’re eating for familiarity.  For some comfort that could never come from food.  When I think back to the last few times I’ve inhaled an entire large pizza in one sitting, it makes perfect sense. It’s just so goddamn tempting to use addiction as a way to handle existential crises.  But in the end, we all know that it’s another dark and lonely…

Buber once wrote that most men preferred to forget how many possibilities are open to them.  That’s why the great companion of change is curiosity. To practice thinking to ourselves: I wonder how this transition will shape me. I wonder what hidden benefits might lay beneath this mountain of adversity. I wonder what the opportunity for growth and expansion will be. I wonder how many parts of myself I…

Cameron’s book on transitions is a collection of empowerment prayers on the nature of change and coping.  One of the arguments she makes is how we mistakenly become so focused on life as we year for it, that we neglect to live the life that we have. We think to ourselves, okay, well, once this is over, then I’ll get on with my life.  Once this is over, then I’ll get back to being kind…