I heard the title of this article from a person I happened to meet when I was in Germany a few weeks ago at a Gestalt research conference. I’d asked him how it was for him in Germany these days. People are scared and people…
A pet peeve of mine: ask for feedback and get praise for my good work and a list of typos and grammar changes but nothing about the material and how I’ve presented it. Does it interest them? If not, what might interest them instead? What…
Buying a house, relocating to a new city or country, changing jobs, getting married, becoming a parent, leaving a relationship… all of these are potentially life-changing decisions. They can stop us in our tracks, seizing the gears in our mind and making it seemingly impossible…
Without any awareness, I can blind myself to what’s happening in my life just by focusing exclusively on what I wish were true. I really wanted the job I’d worked towards to be the perfect job, with great and supportive people. It wasn’t that way…
I read a blog a few weeks ago titled Harsh Feedback. It reminded me of the many times I received feedback, often unasked for, that was hard to hear and digest. I was once told by a teacher to stop typing notes so that I…
Have you ever found yourself so wound up over something that you couldn’t calm down over it? It might be a new idea that you can’t let go of, to the distraction of sleep and anything else you had planned. It might be a need…
