Making comparisons is a losing game

Winning the daily comparison game (being better than the next person) is like getting Monopoly money.  No matter how much of it you get, it is still useless

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Our emotional mask

Have you ever heard or thought to yourself, I’m fragile today.  Or maybe you’ve used the words, raw or sensitive.  What do we mean when we think this?  A lot of

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Why is anger more motivating than joy?

Have you ever noticed that at times, anger is more motivating than joy?  The other day a friend had a bad experience with a retailer and wanted to give

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Why do we seem to get stuck?

Do you ever wonder why you keep repeating the same behavior over and over, even when you know it doesn’t work well or create the results you want?If

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Do you have an imagination?

Have you ever noticed that things are really never as good as we remember them and usually never as bad as we imagine them?  That’s interesting isn’t it? 

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Is mad easier than sad?

Well, if we look around us, it certainly seems like more people are opting for anger.  In the work that we do, we get to hear our clients talk

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Are you good at solving your friend’s problems?

Why are we so much better at solving our friend’s problems than our own?  Well, one obvious reason is just that we think we are good at it.  When we offer our

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The human drop it command!

All dog owners know the importance of the command, “drop it.”  When well-trained, a dog will drop whatever it has in its mouth upon hearing those words.  

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Can you hold in a sneeze?

Have you ever been caught off guard by a sneeze?  There’s nothing you can do to stop it.  Whereas when you sense a sneeze coming you can do

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Is it possible to stop feeling guilty?

Let’s talk about feeling guilty - that nasty, miserable, nagging feeling that we are so often trying desperately to avoid.  Feeling guilty usually (but not exclusively) shows up

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