How do I overcome what my brain sees as normal, a set point? I was asked this question today and here are a couple of thoughts: It’s useful to view ourselves as sculptors. They take thousands of hammer swings as they chip away and the work of art emerges. Every swing moves the project forward. […]
Remembering that we do have a choice
March 30, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Remembering that we do have a choice Sabine, her friend, and I drove for 3.5 hours this morning to ski at Sunlight (near Glenwood Springs, CO). 2 hours into our ski day, Sabine’s friend crashed and hurt her knee. Our ski day was over. My initial response was irritation and disappointment. I wanted to ski! […]
Look at me look at me
March 29, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Look at me look at me I watched a little March Madness basketball this afternoon. Baylor got upset by Yale. Based on a very small amount of data, Baylor seems to be a group of individuals who are more concerned about looking good and individual accomplishments than a team interested in winning. I saw a […]
Lousy Mind Readers
March 28, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Closing our hearts does not help
March 27, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Closing our hearts does not help Sabine’s friend hurt her knee while we were skiing yesterday. However, when we were in the first aid building it looked like Sabine was in worse pain. Ron, the ski patrol guy, was joking around and keeping it light while he did his thing. I was joking around. Sabine’s […]
Pavlov and my dog
March 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Sloppy Language and questionable ownership
March 24, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Sloppy Language and questionable ownership We are very careless with the words “I am” and “I have”. Those are words of identity and declaration that are very powerful. And we use them so haphazardly, identifying ourselves as or with things that if we stopped to think about it we certainly wouldn’t want to identify with. […]
The richest man
March 17, 2016 by Leave a Comment
OK to get paid
March 15, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Selling Well
March 5, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Selling Well When we sell well, we add to people’s lives! The head trash is that we are taking something away from them – their money! Instead focus on what is it that we are adding to their lives – solutions to problems, helping them to do better or to live better, opportunity, improvement, encouragement, […]
