Empathy is a tough one, so let me help you crack the code. Empathy ≠ I know how you feel. Empathy ≠ I can imagine how I would feel in your situation. Empathy ≠ I am making sympathetic faces and …
Surrender to your natural rhythms for greater creativity and easier productivity Burnout has many causes, but one thing its victims have in common is they are pushers. They push those around them (employees, colleagues, spouses, children). They push against what …
The professional most at risk for burnout, is the one who thinks they are immune to it. As burnout scorches more ground, now claiming as many as 2 out of 3 professionals, every worker is effected, either directly or indirectly. …
There’s a special kind of goal called a “commit or quit” goal. If you haven’t heard of this, that’s not surprising, because I made it up. I made it up because I noticed I was doing too many things half-assed: …
When you were young, soft and psychologically pliable, you were probably shoved into various conformation machines (family, school, work) designed to mitigate your uniqueness. Uniformity, for the sake of being controlled, was paramount. Fitting-in was rewarded. Differences were buffed out …
Trust Your “GPS”– 5 Growth Path Signals for Discovering True You Read more »
This was going to be a post about JFM‘s (Just for Me’s, The Opposite of Burnout, p 28), the pleasant little treats we can give ourselves every day to restore and reinvent ourselves like: a break bright lipcolor watching the …
Let’s Be Here Now, beginning with NOW. Oops, there it goes. Okay, THIS Now. Now, this Now…and this, and this, and this. Now shifts into another and another and another. Now is infinitely fleeting, morphing into the next and the …
The gap between what you want (deeper relationship, smaller body, more money, whatever) and what you have (well, you know what you have) can seem ENORMOUS! And this makes me sooooo excited. That big gap says so much about you. …
The Guaranteed Way to Change Your Life (the “Moving In the Direction of” Principle) Read more »
The Norman Rockwell image of Christmas is crap, at least in my experience. The idea that people can set aside their anger, pain and unresolved trauma is unrealistic. It’s a setup for disappointment. And, swinging the pendulum in the other …
Authenticity is a fine edge. I know that my best self is self-restrained and magnanimous, merciful and forbearing, courageous. I like showing you that part of me. In each moment I am working hard to make choices that “move toward” …