Improv Abilities and Strategies I had a very enjoyable conversation with Jenny from www.funnygirls.org last night. They teach leadership and life skills to girls in grades 3-8 using improv. There’s a lot of life strategies we can take from improv. Affirming one another rather than denigrating, ignoring, or contradicting one another. Learning how to laugh at ourselves […]
Tolerating Rat Bites
October 3, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Tolerating Rat Bites We wouldn’t tolerate a rat nibbling on our toe. But we do tolerate those little negative voice that nibble away on our joy, happiness, peace of mind, and confidence. We need to realize the cost of that nibbling and “change the channel”. Much Love, Jonathan Help me out please ~ if […]
Risk, vulnerability, and getting what you want
September 11, 2018 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Looking to be saved
August 31, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Looking to Be Saved The number one piece of head trash is “I’m not enough”. Then since people believe they are not enough, they look to someone or something to save them. Obviously, this is very disempowering, and it creates a resistance to doing the simple things that move us forward (since they won’t be […]
Identity Hit
August 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Identity Hit A recent client had taken an identity hit. About five years ago a few different things happened and he started to think less highly of himself, what he thought was possible diminished, his confidence and belief in himself decreased, and his joy and happiness took a beating. Of course, none of these changes […]
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 […]
Self-Confidence
April 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Self-Confidence Many people would like to be more confident. From my experience and observation nothing builds confidence more than recognizing what we did or the result we produced. Saying, “I did that!” is incredibly affirming, nourishing and, builds both capacity and confidence. However, most of us have been taught some nonsense about “don’t toot your […]
The dilemma of asking for referrals
April 4, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The dilemma of asking for referrals Oftentimes reluctance to ask for referrals comes from our need for approval and not fully owning our value. The head trash behind this goes something like this: If I really was good enough, then people would just naturally refer me. So, if I have to ask, that must mean […]
Defined by . . . ?
March 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
