All Anxiety is Just one Thing

I’m beginning to think all anxiety in life comes from wanting to control things.  Me and anxiety are pretty tight. I’ve been on all sides: coaching hundreds of people through it, coaching myself through it, and before all that, being home-bound and debilitated from it.And my decades of “research” are pointing to one single underlying

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The Truth About Drama

Do you attract drama?If you have a lot of drama-filled people or situations in your life, I’m going to say something you won’t like.    It might be time to look in the mirror. Yes, they may be crazy. I totally give you that. It may honestly, without a doubt, be all their stuff that’s coming

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Is it Good for you?

Life is good. Like, really good. Happy and joyful and awesome.15 years ago, I would’ve never believed it could be like this.  Bobby McFerrin singing “Don’t worry be happy” went right over my head, but Loverboy’s “Working for the weekend” was on repeat in my boombox.I looked right past all those yellow smiley face t-shirts

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How old do you Feel?

This is one of my favorite questions.Particularly when someone (me included) is feeling scared or overwhelmed.  How old do you feel right now?When you’re looking at a pile of stuff to put away and a list of stuff to do and you can’t bring yourself to do just one thing, how old do you feel?If

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Releasing it? Or Avoiding it?

My client Patty says she’s afraid of conflict.She often runs away and avoids speaking up in the hopes that her problems go away on their own. She doesn’t call it running away though. She calls it turning the other cheek. She tells me she’s being Enlightened.I correct her. Don’t lie to yourself, Patty. It’s running.

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When attention to detail is bad

Most of us were taught to look out for our own happiness. We were socialized—to some degree—to think about WHAT will make us happy, HOW to get it and WHEN it will happen. I’m all for taking responsibility for your own feel good. Excellent idea.But……while its fun and even smart to give some thought to

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Look Away… is Your Problem Still There?

My man Michael Neill says: Think of a problem. Now ask yourself, would this problem still exist if I stopped thinking about it?  (I have such a huge mind crush on this guy it’s not even funny.)Go ahead, try it.Real problems remain, even when you stop thinking about them. In fact, real problems often grow

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Where’s Your Inner Honey Badger?

Yeah, I know this video has been viewed by like 15 trillion people. And I got to it late, so chances are excellent that you’ve already seen it.But the honey badger is one of my current idols and he can be one for you, too.“The honey badger is the most fearless animal in all the

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I am

I saw a movie last week that described everything I believe in and all the topics I’m most passionate about. It described it all in a way I rarely can. It’s the kind of stuff I try to teach my clients and discuss with my family and some of my friends and on my blog.

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