Risk, Vulnerability, and Getting What You Want I recently witnessed a father daughter interaction. It seemed that the teenager daughter was supposed to go into the restaurant and buy some to-go food while dad stayed in the car. However, the daughter didn’t seem to want to go by herself and was begging the father to […]
Our packrat brains
August 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Our Packrat Brains Imagine a packrat’s room stacked full of old newspapers, boxes, and junk. The room isn’t useable because there’s so much unneeded and not useful stuff. And it certainly isn’t comfortable to be in that room. But if we start emptying that room, with every load of trash we carry out, the room […]
True Winners
August 21, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Christian pirates
August 12, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Christian Pirates I was talking with an Alaskan commercial fisherman today who described a group of other commercial fishermen as “Christian pirates”. The “pirates” are intentionally violating the fishing regulations so that they can catch more (and earn more). And, the “pirates” are known Christians. Clearly their behaviors are not congruent with their professed belief […]
The walking offended
August 2, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Walking Offended We’ve all gotten offended. And, we have all given offense, whether intentionally or unintentionally. And, we will get offended again and we will offend again. The challenge is: how quickly can we get over it? How quickly can we let it go? Because, when we are walking around offended, we are missing […]
Relax already – we cannot see the future
July 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Harsh judgmental self-perception
July 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Harsh Judgmental Self-Perception An anorexic person can look at you or me and make an accurate assessment about our size. But when they look at themselves, they are no longer seeing with their eyes. They are seeing with their mental construct of themselves, their self-image. And, that mental construct says that they are huge. This […]
Believing our own thinking
July 16, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Believing our own thinking What would happen if we started to believe our own thinking less often? So much of our thinking is about limitation, reasons why not, self-doubt, and self-flagellation. Usually when we catch other people thinking that way, we know that it is garbage but then when it is our own thinking, we […]
Under the influence
July 12, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Under the Influence If we were to drink several shots of tequila, we would not have any choice about whether we were impacted or not. We would be under the influence. The same is true when we habitually tell ourselves lousy stories. We don’t have any choice about it, we will be negatively impacted by […]
Worst case scenarios and the boogeyman
July 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Worst case scenarios and the boogeyman In general, focusing on worst case scenarios is not a good strategy. However, for short periods of time, this can be useful because an examined worst case scenario is usually far less horrible than the imagined worst case scenario. That scenario tends to be straight from the mind […]
