Confidence is owning yourself fully. It doesn’t result from being perfect, but from being comfortable with the so-called imperfections.
Confidence is owning imperfection, i.e. our humanity Read More »
Power isn’t something you find, it’s something you already have. It’s your inherent nature. If you’re experiencing powerlessness, the key to overcoming this is not by becoming more powerful, but by removing what prevents you from feeling powerful.
Being powerful isn’t in doing, it’s in undoing Read More »
Whether we feel grounded or overwhelmed by an event is not due to the event but due to our thoughts about it. We experience the energy of our thinking. More precisely, it’s our choice which of our thoughts to believe in and act upon that creates our feelings and behaviour.
How other people act toward you is not a measure of your value. It’s a measure of their emotional intelligence.
Asking ourselves difficult questions is difficult. If we think the answers may hurt us, make us feel vulnerable, or critical of ourselves, we tend to self-protect by pulling away from inquiry. We don’t want to find out that yes, it was our fault that the project failed; yes, we didn’t say the right thing; yes, we embarrassed ourselves.
Difficult questions and radical honesty Read More »
That nasty little voice that tells you that you can’t. That doubts you and criticises you. That tells you you’re not good enough. And how dare you believe in yourself. That nags you and puts you down.
Don’t buy into the inner critic Read More »
The “hack” there is no hack. The “hack” is there’s a hack fallacy. A perpetual pressure to be more, do more, never miss out on anything, never experience a dull moment. The “hack” is realising we’ve been hacked into rat-racing a hack fallacy.
Problems recur for two main reasons: either because we’ve been ignoring them, or because the solutions were not effective. In either case it’s our inability to be with the friction that problems create that causes recurring problems.
Recurring patterns Read More »
Failing doesn’t mean you’re a failure.
We are often slow to rebound from failure because we spend hours, days, weeks judging ourselves for our mistakes. We get stuck in downwards spiral of self-blame, and the pothole becomes an abyss.
Failure is an opportunity Read More »
Goals are a means to becoming a different person. And changing who we are is a means to altering our present-moment experience of life.
Questions for setting better priorities Read More »