Self-Mastery
The road to becoming the best version of yourself can be summed up in two words: Self-Mastery. Self-mastery is self-control, according to the dictionary, period. Thank you for attending my TED Talk. 💁🏼♀️ But seriously. What the dictionary does not define is the skillset necessary for self-mastery and a better and fuller definition. Let’s talk […]
The Law of Compensation: How to Receive What You Truly Deserve
The Law of Compensation is one of the Universal Laws of the Universe, often linked to the Law of Cause and Effect, but with a crucial difference: it deals directly with the return you receive for the energy you put out into the world—whether that’s in the form of effort, kindness, skills, or even negative […]
Turning Mountains into Molehills – the proper perspective! (And yes, you read that right! 😄 )
Histrionic, overreactive, and hand-wringey – this is the opposite of what it means to turn mountains into molehills! To be histrionic is to be over the top emotionally – I’m talking about grand-scale crying, emoting, and yelling. It’s actually a personality disorder as well (but then so is a personality disorder called Personality Disorder Not […]
Mountains Into Molehills
If you are 65 and expect to live to 80, you have 15 years left. If you get granular, that is 780 weeks. Oliver Burkeman, author of 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, doesn’t pull punches on time. As we discussed last week, we all have an expiration date. We are handed a life sentence […]
Putting the Brakes on Catastrophe
Wisdom is the QUALITY of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment. It’s also knowledge and the capacity to make good use of it. Maya Angelou said, “When we know better, we do better.” That’s WISDOM. But when we know better and don’t do, that’s just being a container holder for information – it barely qualifies […]
The Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy
The Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy: How to Harness It for TransformationHave you ever noticed how your energy, mood, and even your circumstances seem to shift based on your thoughts and actions? That’s not a coincidence-it’s the Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy in motion. This universal law states that energy is always moving, […]
Changing Your Thoughts, And Thus Your Perspective
You can’t see your way out – feel it, understand it, or figure it out, until you can Diana Nyad it and FIND A WAY. We all need “eyes to see.” And so often we don’t have those eyes because we’re using the same old dirty lenses: • Overwhelm• Deflecting• Micromanaging• Avoidance• Procrastination• Hopelessness The […]
Do You Blow Things Out of Proportion?
We know that it’s the lowest-vibe monkey brain driving the tendency to create mountains out of molehills, and we know too that it’s the habit of thought that helps create the hand-wringey situation. There are tactics galore to help yourself out of this intensity, and we talked a lot about them this week:• Thought Ladders.• […]
Protecting Your Energy Is the New Superpower (Especially after 50)
At this stage of life, energy is everything. If your body is the house you live in, then energy is the electricity that keeps the whole thing running. Wasting it on comparison, perfection, holiday performance art, or outdated expectations? That’s like leaving every light in the house on while you sleep. Expensive. Draining. Pointless. So […]