Category: Self-Awareness
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Want to hit your goals? Don’t look at the coffee.
When I was a waitress (way back before there were “servers”), I struggled to get a full cup of coffee from one side of the dining room to the other without spilling into the saucer (yes, way back when every cup of coffee came with a saucer under it). And customers strongly disliked getting a…
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Who is to Blame?
This is the story circulating on Facebook about the gorilla who was shot when a 4-year old boy entered the cage at the zoo and was dragged around frantically in what appears to be at least six inches of water. Panicked onlookers observed from about 15 feet above.And now my FB feed and the news…
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Pause. Rewind. Delete.
Feeling stuck? I was too. But I stepped out of it. And you can too. The first step is pretty simple. So why not take it?
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I Have To Be Able To Vent!
According to researchers, venting actually continues or recreates the same activity in our brain as anger does. The act of venting sustains that anger-based activity for longer periods of time. In other words, whatever yucky feelings you are experiencing (anger, disappointment, sadness) would have disappeared sooner had you not gone into venting mode.
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How Do You Get Validated?
Have you ever noticed the person who walks into a room and radiates confidence? They don’t appear concerned with others’ opinions of them? It doesn’t feel like they are trying to get anything from anyone, yet everyone is drawn to them? Do you wonder how they got all that confidence? Here is a quick…