Who are you listening to? You have probably seen the cartoon image where there’s a tiny angel sitting on one shoulder and a tiny devil sitting on the other – whispering conflicting advice. A more accurate image (for most people) would be the devil on one shoulder, dressed nice (not at all looking like a […]
Time Machine
July 30, 2017 by Leave a Comment
“just”
July 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
“just” Watch out for the word “just” in your thinking and speaking. It is an innocent enough sounding word that has tremendous power to undercut. It discounts, disempowers, trivializes, and makes us less than. Feel the difference between “it’s just me” and “it’s me”. Much Love, Jonathan Help me out please ~ if this Daily […]
Darth Vader’s less scary brother, Darth Cupcake
July 5, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Darth Vader’s less scary brother, Darth Cupcake “Darth Vader” that just sounds tough, scary, and evil. The effect would not have been the same if they called him “Darth Cupcake”. That sounds silly, wimpy, and even emasculating. We can do ourselves a huge favor by giving disempowering, silly, or emasculating names to those characters in […]
Counter intent
June 21, 2017 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Problem focus or creation focus
June 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The cost of being disappointed in ourselves
June 5, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Procrastination and overwhelm
May 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Procrastination and overwhelm Oftentimes the first step in dealing with procrastination and overwhelm is self-forgiveness. When we procrastinate and or get overwhelmed, we are not bad or wrong or defective. We are merely human. But people treat themselves like they are bad, wrong, or defective. Once we forgive ourselves, we allow ourselves to be human […]
Drifting along like a tumbling tumbleweed
April 25, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Drifting along like a tumbling tumbleweed Tumbleweeds go wherever the wind decides to take them. They just drift. If we don’t know what matters most and where we want to go and then if we don’t have a plan and act around that plan – then we become human tumbleweeds. We just drift. And, the […]
