I’ve seen so much confusion around mindfulness. It’s taught as mental awareness. Yet, that’s not really what it means. Being present is the ability to be emotionally present. As a leader, that changes the dynamic of your team. As a parent, that’s what your children want from you. The idea of ‘in-the-present’ was taken out […]
Stuck in your head? Anxious? Too mental? You’re not alone. These are common issues. It’s one of the reasons people turn to meditation. They hear about meditation benefits and so they turn to a practice. The problem with that is that those benefits that people talk about so much come from research on a bunch […]
Emotional Intelligence has become immensely popular over the last twenty years or so. The problem is that it’s an intellectual approach to emotions. It teaches us to learn more about our emotions. To be smarter about them. To be more aware of them in ourselves and others. It suggests that a healthy emotional life is […]
“If there is a purpose to this life, I would say it’s to evolve ourselves – that what we have to give comes from us. And the only way we can give as much as we have is to develop ourselves.” I was a guest on Create New Futures with Aviv Shahar. We talked about […]
This was a more laid back interview with Charle of the Advancing Humanity Podcast. In addition to her podcasting, Charle teaches high school and is a mom, so she’s been busy during these Covid-19 days. The Advancing Humanity Podcast focuses on using connection, health, and innovation to create a thriving human experience and overcome the […]
Deb Coviello, the Drop-in CEO, and I have a lot in common in the way we look at leadership. She talks about the most common problem business leaders face is being able to identify a problem before it ripples into the entire organization and getting to the root of issues to make way for a […]
Had a wonderful time on the Power Your Life Talk Radio with Dr. Jo Anne White. Originally, we were going to talk about the pitfalls of emotional intelligence, but with all that’s going on with Covid-19, she asked me to speak on some related topics. So we talked about why negative emotions might be coming […]
It’s easy to get into overwhelm at the best of times. And we’re in some unprecedented times. So, I’m sharing a technique called Morning Pages from the book, The Artist’s Way, by Anne Cameron. Designed for artists to be able to clear the decks to get themselves into flow and producing work, this simple technique […]
For quite some time now various speakers and authors as well as the mindfulness movement have plugged the idea of being in the present. The problem is that it’s a myth. Worse, it’s a myth that can lead to harm. There is an element of helpfulness to the idea of being in the now. It […]