Growth is by choice

When we are faced with a perspective that does not meet our initial assumptions, we have two options available to us: we can choose to listen, learn and possibly consider new information or thinking to alter our initial views, or we can work to prove the alternate...

No is positive

We are accustomed to ‘no’ being a negative response. ‘No, you did not get the new position.’ ‘No, the loan was not approved’, and on it goes… ‘No’ is the positive you have been missing all this time. It is likely that job was not the right one, and...

Fear and uncertainty

As individuals, we have some uncertainty, regardless of the success we have had. This is not unique to individuals who are still seeking their first triumph or to those who have attained untold success and now have new, higher expectations to meet. We know there are...

With or against the traffic

When you go running on the road, your choice is simple: run with the traffic or against it. Running with the traffic feels like the logical option. You are moving in the same direction, yet that is it in its entirety. You are in the flow. Are we in sync since vehicles...

More alike and not the same

You are frustrated, inconvenienced, disappointed, or hurt by someone’s words or actions. They are of a certain age, race, gender, socio-economic, religious, and political beliefs. We then begin to rationalize and characterize that ‘they are all the same. We as human...