Exploring a Rule of Waste

To further explore the Identify, Examine, and Reflect parts of How to unlock rules that don’t serve you, let’s play with one that just came up in my life: Construct: It’s bad to use something up (wearing out something with electronics counts as ‘using it up’ if we perceive it as having a total number…

Being The Observer

What’s all this talk in psychology about ‘being the observer of your thoughts’? And, why would I care?  Here’s my take.

Yes, I’ll Keep Trying

I was reading an article the other day about someone lamenting the aches and pains and fatigue of growing older to their even-older and even-more-falling-apart parent.  The 88-year-old responds, “Yeah, but the alternative is worse”. The alternative. I love that, because it short-circuits that crazy part of my mind that loves to say all the…

Getting a Bigger Comfort Zone

How big is your comfort zone?
Is it a comfortable box to live in? Have space to move around and stretch and play? Or, it is so confining you can barely move without feeling anxiety.