There’s a lot of discussion in our culture around safe spaces. Today, let’s apply that concept to you. Do you have a safe space for self-awareness? Time is one commodity you have the same amount of as everyone else, and you spend all your time inside your head. Do you reserve space for personal growth…
Belief is a powerful thing. It can propel you forward (empowering). It can hold you back (limiting). It can prop you up (encouraging). It can hold you down (belittling). Today’s encouragement: Start identifying and rooting out beliefs you hold that are limiting or belittling. A simple way to approach this: Nothing is too small or insignificant,…
The MVG FWD Reframe-work encourages the review of perspective, how you frame things in life. The words you use inside your head direct your intentions. When you use words like “if” and “then” your perspective becomes anticipatory and reactionary. Using “if, then” places your role in the situation after it occurs, putting your intention contingent…
For those of us lucky enough to have kids in 2013, the words “let it go” immediately sparked a reaction. Heck, it probably sparked a reaction whether you had kids or not. Love it or hate it, when you read those three words, the melody of the title track for Frozen played in your head. Where in…
Framing is an important skill. How you look at something will determine how it affects you. Change is one of those things where your perspective on it will affect its effect on you. Change is life. There is no avoiding it. Ignore it at your own peril. You either manage change or change will manage you. …
Fudge is one of those foods that can quickly becomes less than appealing. You’ve seen what happens to that plate of fudge at Christmas. It dries out, cracking and breaking down into little, unappetizing, chalky pieces. Fear, uncertainty, doubt, guilt, and expectation can lead you down a path toward a dried out, chalky existence. Robbing…
“Have confidence that there is a very special and valuable somebody inside you, and that no one else could ever duplicate that person. Just like you could never duplicate whoever it is that you highly admire.” ~ Thomas J. Leonard Someone needs to read this today. You are special. There has been no one like you on…
Intention starts with “I”, as in “I will”. You’ve probably had many good intentions that haven’t produced the desired result, and as such, you may have learned to devalue intentions. There are two things wrong with that conditioning. Attaching an outcome to an intention ignores reality. You don’t control the outcome. It also pre-defines a “winning…
We are never guaranteed tomorrow. So why spend so much time thinking about it? By definition a goal is “an aim or desired result” for a future outcome. New Year’s resolutions are goals. What’s your success rate with them? You set a goal for six months only to get there, and rationalize your performance toward…
You know the importance of the order of operations are to correctly solving an equation. You get one step wrong, and no matter how accurately you solve each step after it, you still arrive at a wrong answer. When navigating a plane or a ship, being wrong by a single degree can put you miles…