Enough Compromising

The conventional approach to compromise is that it is a necessary component for healthy relationships.  The usual line is: To have a good relationship, you need to compromise.

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You Hurt My Feelings

"You hurt my feelings" is something most of us dread hearing.  As such, we often bend ourselves into pretzels to avoid hearing it, or use it as a

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What it takes to maintain the right form

Have you ever tried to address an issue with your posture or perhaps how to perform an exercise, like a squat, using the proper form?  When you take

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Restarting

The other day I was at lunch with two friends who were working something out that was of so little consequence, it could barely even be called an

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One-tasking

When did we start taking pride in being able to do many things at once?  In fact, it is MUCH more difficult to do one thing and only

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How do you treat an overreaction?

Sometimes it is the easiest to see what causes us to overreact around the people most dear to us.  Someone leaves a cabinet door open, or a dish

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A culture of yes or no?

Do you spend more of your day moving toward what you want or preventing what you don’t want?  Another way of saying this is, in the course of

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What is your Greek curse?

We’ve been working on this newsletter for several months now.  Dropping it and then picking it back up again.  There is a really good idea in it, but

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How long is too long to stay undecided

A prolonged period of indecision can have a terribly draining effect on us.  We’re sure you’ve experienced being on the fence about something and feeling a great relief

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Do you think you’re going too slow?

We recently got a puppy so please expect a lot of dog training metaphors over the next few months!  The other day we heard a trainer say, “if

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