Turning points have the power to transform our lives. We all have pivotal moments that flip our world upside down and cause us to panic. Maybe your boyfriend left you for another woman. Now what? Or, you just lost your job — what’s next? You wonder, “Where do I go from here?” One of my …
Month: May 2021
Loving Someone Does Not Give Us the License To Control That Person
4 signs you may have control issues in your relationship. Love thrives when you take someone you love exactly as they are and you communicate who you are clearly and honestly so they can do the same for you. This is the paradox of love: You can’t control another person’s behavior. One of my friend’s …
It’s Possible To Have a Full-time Job and Have a Full-Personal Life
6 ways you can make the most of your time to balance work and personal life. If tomorrow is my last day on earth, my life would still be full – I have friends, family, and a rich personal life I cultivated through the years. I had no personal life a few years back, though. …
7 Better Questions To Ask People That Go Deeper Than “How Are You?”
On how to have deep conversations — not just exchange pleasantries. Put yourself in a moment where you were not fine. Maybe you were terrible, and maybe you were too good to be true. And you said, “I’m fine. Thank you.” Put yourself back in that moment when you lied. Why did you do it? …
You Deserve a Relationship That Stretches You, Instead of Withering You
Don’t diminish you in the name of making room for your relationship. “The best relationships of any kind — romantic or otherwise — are the ones that encourage us, expand us, inspire us, rather than the ones that shrink, contain, diminish, entrap or shackle us.” –Dushka Zapata We deserve a relationship that stretches us instead …
Ira Glass’s Advice to Help You Fight Your Way to Master Any Skill
When the level of your skill disappoints you, keep showing up. It was 2015 and my first day to teach a class of 50 adult students. On this particular day, I was hoping to deliver a good public speech. After all, I’ve been practicing in front of a mirror on how to stand in front …