Took the kids camping for one last summer hurrah, with an 18-foot, pop-up tent-trailer…by myself! Feeling pretty pleased over here. This is not the kind of thing that I would have pictured myself doing without a troupe of people, or at least a partner, to help out. It wasn’t easy – towing 2500 pounds, backing […]
The Coordinates of Wisdom
You know that gut feeling you get when something is so totally right for you? Such a clear sense personal alignment that you half expect a choir of angels to break out? Like everything just clinks into place like the unlocking of Gringotts Vault (how cool was that, btw?). This is the resonance of Your […]
Two False Selves
There are two very important parts of ourselves that we hide, even from ourselves. They are the False Selves. And not being in touch with them comes at a cost. The cost is wholeness, a sense of true integration. I call these the Denied Self and the Exiled Self. The Denied Self, who many refer […]
Two Degrees Off & Twenty Years Out
Imagine you’re starting a journey and you’re charting the course. Imagine you accidentally set out on a course that’s just two degrees off from your intended course. What do you envision will happen as you go along? It would depend on how long you traverse the accidental course, right? If you’re traveling along, just two […]
An Amazing Trick For Saying “No” with Grace & Courage
If you’re a natural helper, one of the hardest things to do is knowing when and how to say “no”. Handily, you have a built-in signal for when to say “no”. A sensation of overwhelm is a signal that you’re operating at too high a level. You’re like a car that’s revving too hard. You […]
A Different Kind of Scary
I recently read that courage is like a muscle. It gets stronger when we use it. So true, right? And there’s big business in getting you to flex your courage muscles by doing scary things. Many leadership experiences and mastermind retreats will engage you in something wild and terrifying, because, the idea goes, if you […]
