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Remember Your Successes
It’s really easy to focus on your failures. It’s easy for us to point out our flaws, our weaknesses, and where we have the most room for improvement. In the thick of stressful work and home circumstances, it’s so easy to get stuck in the negative thinking about how you aren’t making progress or don’t…
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Pivoting
Even the best laid plans can fall apart. No matter how thorough and well-researched you are in your planning, there are factors outside your control and sometimes those factors destroy your plans. Learning how to switch gears and figure out next steps from there can be the difference between success and failure in the long…
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Enjoy the Sunshine
I find it hard to be optimistic sometimes. The world is filled with terrible things, terrible news, terrible futures, terrible pasts, all the terrible all the time. But the world is filled with plenty of wonderful too. It is just as likely that good things will happen as bad things will happen. So why we…
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Courage
I don’t consider myself particularly brave. Even if I do something outside my comfort zone, I do it in the most measured, non-terrifying way possible. Like this blog – I don’t have my real name or picture associated with it. That’s too big of a risk for right now. I’m feeling particularly terrified at the…
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What Would It Look Like If It Was Easy?
Sometimes we mistake effort for value. We seek out the paths of most resistance. We justify that the things worth doing are things you have to work for. The harder you work, the bigger the payoff. And in a lot of circumstances, that’s true. However, there are plenty of circumstances that are more like putting…
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You Can’t Think Your Way to Perfection
We are overthinkers. We are planners. We anticipate problems and solve them before they happen. But there’s a limit. My dad likes to reference “the paralysis of analysis”. We overthink and plan and anticipate problems so much that we talk ourselves out of every move. At some point, we just have to risk it. We…
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Are your Affairs in Order?
**This is not legal advice. If you want legal advice consult an attorney that practices in your jurisdiction.** We see on television or in movies whenever there is a terminal diagnosis that people should “get their affairs in order”. But what does that mean? In the United States at least, it means be clear about…
Handling The Hard Stuff 