My friend posed this question on Facebook. I love it. What was your most useful failure? I’m sure I’ve had a lot of life-saving failures. But two come immediately to mind:1) Abhorring my first career out of graduate school. I was a trial consultant helping corporate defense attorneys craft lies to win their cases over
I read a book by Julia Rogers Hamrick called Choosing Easy World: A guide to opting out of struggle and strife and living in the amazing realm where everything is easy. Wait a minute…we can just opt out of struggle and strife? There’s an amazing realm where everything is easy? In a sort of epiphany,
All the coolest research says making small progress on the way to a big goal makes us happier than actually reaching the goal. When we reach those stepping stone mini-goals, our brain rewards us with a quick hit of dopamine. In case you’re not up on your neurotransmitters, dopamine is the bringer of pleasure and
You might not believe me at first but I swear it’s the truth….We’re infinitely more likely to succeed in life than to fail. When you really think about it, much more goes right than wrong. Even on your worst day ever.This doesn’t feel true because—in a totally protective and adaptive way—we’re inclined to notice and exaggerate
Technologically speaking, it’s been a hell of month. I wouldn’t believe it if I wasn’t (barely) living through it. It all started August 9th when hubby, Willow and I were driving from Detroit to Montreal. We purposely chose to do the 10 hour drive during a work day so that I could work most of
*This post is Part II in a two part installment on making choices. Here’s part I.*Most decisions in life are reversible. If you don’t like the choice you made, choose again. If you pick the wrong college or the wrong major or the wrong career, so what? Choose again.If you choose a paint color or a
*This post is Part I in a two part installment on making choices*Ever noticed how easy it is to get worked up when you’re choosing between options?Last week a client was struggling with the choice between being induced or letting her baby come on its own, both of which (given her health history) had a
(I didn’t write this one…Illuminated Mind did. Originally titled “Change the world by Being Who you Are”)It’s easy to think that we don’t have an impact. It’s easy to say “I’m too small” or think that what you do doesn’t matter.That’s a lie.Every action you take ripples out into the world. Yes, you are an
Every once and a while I talk to someone who asks permission to end a friendship. They say something like, “Is it really okay that I stop calling?”, or “I can’t just ‘break-up’ with her…can I?” Here’s my view on relationships:Life is like a play—there are many scenes and a rotating cast of characters.Some characters
What if all humans were equal? Not just created equal…what if we couldn’t help but remain equals our entire lives no matter what happened to us or what choices we made? What if all the evidence we use to separate ourselves from others; all those facts and all that proof we use to decide that
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