“Conquer your fears” is one of those fridge magnet motivationals that sounds deep until you’re actually in danger. There’s no universal scoreboard for fear, no gold star for pretending your nervous system didn’t just red-alert because something might kill you.…
You’re in an elevator. Boss turns: “Define leadership. Go.” You stammer. “Uhm… yeah well… something about vision? Inspiring others?” You just became a human LinkedIn post. Congrats, you’ve exposed leadership’s dirtiest secret: it’s often smoke and buzzwords. Here’s the truth:…
Say what you mean. Get the language for the life you want. Doing just that, by culling rotten phrases,took me a while. I was in school when the first god cast a shadow over my pathetically small worldview. “You need…
My first encounters with depression and anxiety did not start only in my early 20s, but that coincided with the time when I got conscripted, and I had to write down the D Word, on paper, for the first time.…
If you are squeamish, don’t watch the clip. The bad guy gets stabbed in the throat with a pen, on an aeroplane, no less. The movie clip is from the 2005 flick, “Red Eye.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaLewAfBoU0 I like the cinematography, focusing…
85. Some feed on drama. Don’t become an actor, playing the roles that feed those needs. 2022 – Throwing in the towel, or not!
13. This is your survival protocol. You don’t need to justify any of it to anyone else. This one was quite self-explanatory. Just to recap, this is where the concept of journaling a personal Survival Porotocol started: 2022 – Throwing…
6. Breathe. Understand the most basic, and most important of needs. The universe might implode in two days. The asteroid could hit us, maybe hordes of alien invaders are gathering just outside your village, getting ready to storm your sanctuary,…