Posts tagged Personal Growth
The Karma of Kindness

Believing in Karma is like learning the Golden Rule. It's just what we learn as kids, it's considered truth and we're not to question it, we're just to abide by it. Period, end of story.

Yes, this is all well and good. I leave a good portion of my life up to Karma. (I know for a 100% fact that a couple of very bad things have happened to me as a result of bad Karma juju I emitted to the world). Mostly, though, I believe in the Karma of kindness.

 

Read More
Death by Decision Overload

Oftentimes, you don’t even realize how exhausted your brain has become, fallen victim to the overwhelm of so many choices day in and day out. Decision fatigue is a silent robber—it steals your mental energy and, over time, wrecks havoc on your productivity. See, when the amount of decisions we need to make gets too big, it can actually paralyze us into non-action.

Sound familiar? Next time you start to feel the load of choices starting to choke you, here’s a few tips to keeping it all together:

Read More
Blame is the New Black

It seems we've fallen into the horrible habit of blaming others the moment our train starts to derail. Why do we do this? Why is it we opt toward blame the moment things go awry? Well, It's time to stop. Stop looking for something outside and begin looking inside ourselves for more meaningful answers to the challenges in our lives.

Hopefully you agree. Now let's talk about how:

Read More
No-Nonsense Ways to Turn Passion into a Plan

“Follow your passion” is a cliché that gets thrown around A LOT. I absolutely believe that people should do what they love (I mean we’re talking I quit my full time job to become a solopreneur!), but let’s be honest. That phrase doesn’t tell you how to do anything.

When you do decide to take the plunge, here are four no-nonsense ways that can turn your passion into an effective plan.

Read More
Slaying the Shoulds

I'm buried under a pile of shoulds and can't get out. Isn't it about time we stop feeling overwhelmed by all the things we think we ought to be doing? If you too are dying a slow painful death by obligations, let's unite and decide: enough already. It's time for us to come up with a new list. A list of things that REALLY matter that we should be doing every day.

Read More
Saying What Needs to Be Said

How many times have you been sitting in a meeting and thinking to yourself, "This Sucks!"? A million times, a million and ten perhaps. You're sitting and thinking you'd rather poke your eyes out with hot sticks of fire than listen to one more status meeting. But you don't say any of this out loud. Why not?  Speak up! Be the catalyst to better-ness!

Read More