Ranches and rivers and rivers of money A common money saboteur is the idea that money comes from people and so if I take your money then you will have less. But since I’m a good guy, I cannot do that to you so therefore I better not take your money (or at least give […]
Leadership and communication
June 17, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Leadership and communication It does not matter what we say until we have taken care of how we say it. Any communication that we deliver with a charge, with anger or frustration, or with negative judgment most likely won’t be received the way we want it to be received. Instead, that person will react to […]
Incongruent
June 15, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Incongruent A friend of mine was recently betrayed. Consequently, he’s experiencing a lot of angry thoughts and revenge oriented thoughts. In talking with him today, he wanted to know how to get past those thoughts. One of the ideas I mentioned is that thinking and feeling that way is completely incongruent with who he wants […]
trump card
May 23, 2017 by Leave a Comment
I’m just an average guy
May 21, 2017 by Leave a Comment
I’m just an average guy “It is impossible to outperform your self-image.” Dr Maxwell Maltz in Psycho-Cybernetics I’ve referenced that quote about a million times. Our self-image (our beliefs about who I think I am and am not, what does and does not happen to me, what is possible and impossible for me, what I […]
How many times?
May 18, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Self-worth calculation
February 17, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Self-worth calculation What is it that you have allowed to define your worth as a human being? The size of your bank account What the bathroom scale says Number of friends The car you drive Ability to do something Some detail of your physical appearance Relationship status Etc. We are so very much more than […]
Building Mental Toughness
February 10, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Building Mental Toughness Rejections, disappointments, and things not going the way we want them to – these are the ways that we build mental toughness. Every time that we weather the storm, every time that we bounce back, every time that we get back into action – we become mentally tougher. That stuff is the […]
Give Energy
January 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Bump and Swirl
August 14, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Bump and Swirl We are hanging out at a coffee shop in Anchorage (because I’d much rather hang out here than at the airport). Terry, an artist, had some of his work spread out on his table and we struck up a conversation. He used the phrase “BUMPANDSWIRL!” in talking about life and about his […]
