Are you communicating with confidence? Maybe not! Especially if you are habitually injecting this phrase in your conversations: “It is what it is.” Ah yes, the philosophical equivalent of shrugging while Rome burns.One of the most spiritually bankrupt phrases we’ve…
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…
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…
What if I told you that you don’t deserve any respect? But wait, I could even say, “Nobody deserves respect.” I can imagine being hit by that avalanche of indignance and outrage If I wrote it as a comment on…
85. Some feed on drama. Don’t become an actor, playing the roles that feed those needs. 2022 – Throwing in the towel, or not!
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,…
It was near the end of 2022, I experienced a terrible low-point in my life and I was ready to throw in the towel. But I had no idea about an efficient, or ideal protocol for “throwing in the towel.”…
“i want to spend New Year’s eve in a log cabin – isolated from the artificial transitioning between the last tick on the clock of the old year, and the tock of the clock that supposedly heralds the arrival of…
“Misinformation” isn’t real? Come again! A content creator, whose videos I watched a year ago claimed, “There is no such thing as misinformation, only information!” But what about information maliciously crafted to mislead, like an evil scheme designed to send…