When society has done all the thinking for you, and you are suffering from the consequences.
What can you do to you…
You will often hear me say that what you like and what you love is who you are at any moment. What…
We’ve all been there.
Have you ever been told by a colleague ‘Sorry, I haven’t done that, I’ve been too busy’? Have you ever used this as an excuse for not getting something done that you may have been asked to do?
There’s a serious difference between emotional regulation and bypassing emotions. What you’re suggesting here is completely bypassing your emotions.
“Gee, your dog just died? Just disregard it!”
Although I like many of your motivation focused articles this one is way off the mark. It’s clear that you…
Someone asked me this the other day and it got me thinking… damn, finding your life’s purpose ain’t easy!
“What is your life purpose?” is such a general question and big picture item that doesn’t really make much sense unless you can break it into…
I was part of an online conversation about finding a suitable facilitator for a particular…
In the final weeks of the year, it is common to begin to hear of about the importance of reflecting on the year that is wrapping up and planning for the year moving forward. I am one of those people too… guilty as charged.
I wear many hats
I have noted on my blog many times that when I was young I had a horrible temper and had zero fuse to my temper. I could go from…
well, speak to yourself even though you don’t want other people to speak to you.
speak to yourself clearly. logically. strongly. philosophically.
reasonably and poetically.
statistically, scientifically and rhetorically.
Personal development literature provides us with lots of cookie cutter solutions to our daily…
Yesterday, as a part of Secret Santa celebrations, my colleague was asked to boast about himself. All…
I am deeply moved this story of personal transformation told unapologetically, fearlessly, and authentically.
I think the power outage and the book proved to be the tipping points that triggered the motivation to embrace the painful and cathartic processes of self-enquiry, self-introspection and reawakening.
This week I read a phrase in my cousin’s social media:
I began learning the art of sacred iconography in the fall of 1996. My teacher was a man named Peter . He is a very good icon painter…
Embrace the flops!
It has been 25 years since I have first seen snow, and it continues to amaze me. I remember hearing about snow as a child…
Everyone has those sayings that they’ve heard at least a million times. Most of them come from your mom. Well, a…
Being vulnerable sucks, but when you spend all your time engineering situations where you never have to be vulnerable you become boring and over sensitive to stress. Basically you don’t change.
Health, Stress and the Holidays
By Jackie Ruka
Stress is very common in today’s busy world. Between long to-do lists, managing…
Life Pause — A period of time where your life slows down. A time where being comes first instead of doing.
Gosh, us humans love projecting our bullshit!
I guess it’s way less painful to call out the flaws of others than it is to hold up a mirror to our own. Let’s face it, pain is a necessary part of evolving — but that doesn’t mean we have to…
Many times we can’t focus on what’s most important because we haven’t decided how we should organize the unimportant stuff.
It’s crucial to make sense of and organize your least important tasks so we don’t have them taking up space in your mind.
Use the framework of eliminate, automate, or delegate to help you focus on the right task.
Fantastic resource Ezequiel. In honor of you, I am going to write a similar guide and manifesto for my team as well. I’ll share it with once I am done.
It’s all about perspective!
This was a really great article. I feel like I’ve been trawling through Medium waiting to read something like this. I feel like this year I spent as much time as possible avoiding being vulnerable and I’ve trapped myself in the really shitty fixed mindset, on a hamster wheel of feeling like crap about myself. Its nice to be reminded I have the choice…