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Doubt can be a nagging, frustrating emotion that’s just big enough to matter, but just small enough not to kill you. Descartes once said that doubt pulls the rug out from under whatever certainty you think you just got hold of. It’s the wrecking ball that swings into action and knocks the poorly founded belief aside. Couldn’t agree more. For example, here’s a career doubt that sometimes pops into…

When people complain about how they don’t have time do things, it perplexes me. They act as if all these tasks and obligations cosmically forced themselves onto their to do lists, and now they are helplessly stuck with them. But the fact is, everything they committed to was a choice they made. Or didn’t make. And so, time isn’t their problem. Time is the artificial human construct they’ve decided…

Moderation has never really worked for my personality. Despite my best efforts to adopt an everything in moderation maxim, turns out I’m an all or nothing kind of. Timing and monitoring and measuring my effort doesn’t motivate me, it exhausts and frustrates me. Framing my level of activity and consumption as sensible, whatever the hell that means, only ruins the experience for me. Unlike some people, occasionally indulging doesn’t…

In a sad, grieving, anxious or depressed person’s mind, their fears are completely normal. You can spend all the time in the world promising them that they are not sick, but they’re often unwilling to believe loved ones or even doctors who try to reassure them. In which case, the only effective way to deal with their irrational thinking is to just play along for their peace of mind….

Who are we when all of our gifts are stripped away? Is that person still worthy? It’s tough to imagine when we’ve invested so much time working on ourselves. Think about the sheer amount of time and energy spent. We treat ourselves as the possessors of unique gifts. We carry the blueprint of them and notice their unfolding. We slowly emerge into the full flower of our gifts through…