Five Tips I’d Give My Younger Self

What do I know now that I wish I’d known earlier in my years? The following tips are the things that come to mind. I earned them fair and square, having learned them the long and hard way – through many years of experiencing. I wear these statutes on my...

Necessary for Change

These are the building blocks of change: hope, threshold, and consistency. Without these three critical components, intentional change is almost impossible. Hope is the predecessor to change – without hope, there is no action. Hope is required for any behavior...

Breaking Patterns

When it comes down to it, generating change is all about breaking patterns; breaking cognitive and behavioral patterns ingrained in your life that you’d never bothered replacing.. until now. Let’s start with what it means to break patterns. Behavioral...

Self-Sabotage: an Urban Myth?

We’re all guilty of using self-sabotage as an excuse as to why we don’t seem to meet the goals we set, or why we always get in the way of ourselves. Whenever we have particular feelings, thoughts, or actions that come up and create barriers to meeting our...

The Map is Not the Territory

Your map is not the territory. This is a brilliant phrase coined by Alfred Korzybski back in the 30’s and describes the human condition quite clearly. As human beings, we are confined to the constraints of both our experiences and words. That is, our...