Shake-up to Wake-up
Now is a time of shake-ups. Whether the shake-up is a break-up, a job loss, a death, or a diagnosis, every shake-up has a reason for being. Consider it your wake-up call. Even though the call came out of nowhere, the call is not good or bad. Think of it as a gift. Your girlfriend [...]
Trust Your Inner Warrior
Opinions are like noses. Everyone has one. Opinions on the left. Opinions on the right. Conflicting opinions, strong opinions, weak opinions. The priest has an opinion. The doctor. So does the teacher, the astronomer, the botanist, the cell biologist, the geneticist, the meteorologist, the physicist, the strategist, the guru, the philosopher, the politician, the spouse, [...]
Ebola: Fiction vs. Fact
Problem - Reaction - Solution. Create a problem, foment a reaction, and roll out the solution. It's been the go-to playbook for all Crisis-By-Design. In any good crisis, there are those who do the spinning and those who are spun. To determine which side you are on, step back, separate yourself from the fray and [...]
Where is Superman to Save the Day? Be your own hero.
The contrast between light and dark is no more clear than now. This dichotomy is playing out in the escalation of corruption and lies at the highest levels. It is also playing out in the rising tide of truth being revealed by whistleblowers at the highest levels. History repeats itself in a negative feedback loop [...]
A New Meaning of History: Yourstory
History is defined as the study of past stories. Those who study history piece together artifacts to understand their story in context to the greater story. What if focusing on the past has caused us to become stuck there? Does it become easier to conclude, like Kurt Vonnegut did, that as humans, “we’re doomed to [...]
The No Pain-No Gain Myth
Image by Виктория Бородинова from Pixabay The “no pain no gain” motto has been promoted by physical fitness experts as the key to obtaining physical wellness. No-pain-no-gain means working past the point of muscle ache, past the point the body rebels, because we choose to ignore it. Are we masochists? And why then, [...]
