“Forget your so-called principles, Diana! Are you done complaining? Can we all move on with our lives now?” Ah…sweet adolescence. I was exposed to some form of the message above on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis. It was my reward for being both a high school senior and team captain. “Diana! Your stubbornness makes you [...]
Seven years, swimming in visions of children at play. It’s a deafening preoccupation resulting from two boys, ages two and seven, who bound through our home with reckless abandon. Remember those moments when you were trapped within yourself? Filled with anxiety or rage, only to be shaken by the openness of a two-year old boy. [...]
Everyday, in my line of work, I wake up and judge myself by a number. When that number is elevated, I get this feeling of safety, control, and permanence. It washes over me like a warm bath. But then a new day comes, and who knows what it brings. On the surface these moments happen [...]
“Inspiration shows up after you make some sort of gesture.” – Bindu Wiles, Creativity Coach. Isn’t it interesting once you’ve followed that rabbit down the hole? Bill Moyers refers to the phenomena of living your truth as being helped “by hidden hands”. Joseph Campbell tells us when you follow your “bliss” you are put on [...]
He was “a friend of a friend”, new to town, and looking for work. After we spoke, I realized I had no idea about the details of his story (e.g., Why did he leave a high paying job and a great city? What did he love so much about Charleston that would make him take [...]
New York City…circa 1984. Crime had overwhelmed New York at all levels. It was chaotic, seedy, drug ridden and dangerous. And then suddenly, in just a few short years, things changed. By the mid 1990’s, New York had become the safest “big city” in the nation. How? How in the world did a large, crime [...]
“If I’d have asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!’ ” -Henry Ford In the 1920’s and 30’s, the standard form of treatment was psychoanalytic in nature, consisting of four to five sessions per week for years at a time. Psychological problems were seen as the result of intrapsychic [...]
There is no magic formula for ramping up your business and getting it to take off. Of course, people will tell you there is, and you’ll get all kinds of interesting offers to that effect. But I’m not buying it. Not if you want that last 10%, the upper echelon of whatever it is you’re [...]
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