Category: The Nature of Thought

A New Way to Make a Wish

Willow and I have a girls’ day routine. We go for a long walk and I take her to a park she loves because there is a fountain there.buy levitra online buy levitra no prescription no prescription She stands on the ledge of the fountain. I give her a penny and tell her to throw

Are You Making a Mistake or Don’t Know How to do it Better?

I love studying the science of happiness, ways to help people out of pain and how to maximize success, whatever that looks like for you. But there is a down side to all of this self-help. Besides the fact that it can be taken to imply that you need “help” (which you don’t, btw), teaching

How to Truly Help Someone

Your rational mind knows this, but I’m speaking to the irrational part: You can’t take on other people’s pain. You can’t grieve for them. There is no amount of tears you can shed that will lessen theirs.When my kid is sick, there is no amount of sick I can make myself (with worry, no doubt)

Do you Know Your Life Purpose?

Here’s a question for you: Do you believe we all have a life purpose? Something we’re meant to be doing in the world? Now answer this: How does that feel?My guess is that how it feels depends on whether you believe you’re living yours or not.When you believe we all have a life purpose, and

Whose Opinion do you Trust?

Whose opinion do you trust? When all those outside opinions of you are screaming in your head, which one is loudest? Which carries the most weight? Which one do you believe over the others?buy vardenafil online buy vardenafil no prescription no prescriptionThe voice that sounds most assertive or confident?buy clomiphene online buy clomiphene no prescription

Just Because you can Doesn’t Mean you Should

Here’s something I’ve been re-learning lately: Just because I can doesn’t mean I should. Just because I can get up to exercise at 6 every morning does not mean I should.Just because I can work until midnight does not mean I should.Let this be the new anthem of the good-girl. The perfectionist, over-achiever, must-do-more junkie:

How to be More Consistent

A client recently asked for some motivation. Specifically, she wanted to be motivated to consistently take some actions that she was currently being inconsistent about.Even more specific…how ‘bout I just tell you exactly what she said?Client:“I exercise sporadically, I make efforts towards finding a new job sporadically, I take care of my needs sporadically. I

How You are Using your Creative Super-Powers Against Yourself

My clients are sooo creative. They are inventors, and authors, and incredible artists. They are experts at using metaphor and rich, visual imagery to tell the most detailed and believable stories. What’s really impressive is they don’t even realize they are doing it.One client recently told me that her student loan debt was a giant,

The Importance of an Empty Future

What’s in your future? Hopefully, not much. When your future is empty—as in wide open, blue ocean, blank slate—you’re sitting pretty to put whatever you want there.Most of us do not have an empty future. Most of us have a jam-packed future. Do you know what it’s full of?The past.We drag all sorts of stuff

If Your Mind was a Swimming Pool…

I have a favorite new visual for calming my mind and getting to the “bottom” of things.Like the bottom of a swimming pool, actually…It’s calm at the bottom of things. The trick is keeping the waves down so that you can notice the calm.Can you float on the surface all still and quiet-like? Sounds relaxing,