How well do you listen to yourself and others? Do you fully focus on the other person when you are in a conversation and give them space to fully express themselves? Do you give yourself silence during your day to tune into your thoughts? In our fast-paced, multi-tasking world we tend to miss out on fully focused listening. While on the phone we are sorting through e-mail, thinking about our tasks for the day, or doing a thousand other […]
Last week I wrote about having strong commitment and letting go of our attachment to the outcome. Having a strong commitment can become stressful and serious, especially if the deadline is coming more quickly than you anticipated, or other unplanned events take your time away from the work required. I am working on a couple of deadlines right now and in the midst of this work my cell phone connector stopped working and subsequently my phone died as I […]
Do you struggle with this like I do? I sometimes get very attached to the outcome that I have visualized and if it does not materialize then I become frustrated and disappointed. I remember when a friend kindly pointed out that I must let go of my attachment to the outcome. What? Let go of it? But that is what I am so committed to and visualizing and it is helping drive me to be more successful. Does this […]
“Oh there is a word for that!” is a reaction I often have when I make a discovery about something that I intuitively sensed was true but had no way of describing it. Because I had no known description, my sense of truth was accompanied by doubt. It is interesting that when we have a word and even better some scientific evidence to back up how we are feeling then our doubt disappears and we are empowered to take […]
