Personal Development

Moments of Gratitude Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash From each of us, there can be a widening of focus toward an awareness of the fullness of being and our place in its current flow. This, too, is an inspiration for me. I think about what it means and what mechanisms are in play in my […]

  That cognitive aspect of letting go refers to the consciously managed process of no longer holding on to negative emotions, grievances attachments, or bondings that impede our emotional wellbeing or that we are unable to change. It involves actively acknowledging the reality of the past, with us no longer continuing to invest in things

Not too much extrovert, not too much introvert Sitting at the boundary between extroverts and introverts, we ambiverts can feel as if we don’t belong anywhere. Somewhere between the 10th and 90th percentiles on the ‘extroversion’ scale, ambiverts are those of us who have tough skin and thick fur but also are as affectionate with

If a bird focuses on walking, the bird will never fly. I had spent years learning how to be a happy and fulfilled person. I typically excelled in discussions about how to improve our weaknesses or mitigate the risk associated with those who were falling short in their abilities. When I received the StrengthsFinder book as

There is a shift in the way that we think about relationships that promise to make our interactions better, to bring more depth and meaning. ‘I’ll take care of you if you’ll take care of me’ is an old refrain, a best-practice approach to relationship dynamics. The problem, of course, is the gates all seem

Hardship knits itself into so many stories of life that it’s difficult to think that someone, somewhere, isn’t suffering. Hopefully, this is momentary, at times, temporary; but often hardship becomes a permanent pall on life that we do our best to navigate and somehow survive. This has certainly been the case in the last few

Doing all that we can with the intensity to which we care is how we’re usually advised to achieve any goal. There’s a paradoxical counter-narrative to this ‘try as hard as you can’ advice: sometimes, the less we care, the more results show up. It’s a paradox with as many footnotes as there are people who

It goes something like this: ‘Yes, I wish to make a different choice in my lifestyle.’ Or ‘Yes, yes, I want to learn design.’ Or ‘Yes, I want to start that passion project of mine, tutorials on meditation.’ And then, of course, there are the initiatives that are time-sensitive and cannot be delayed — the proposals that

It’s easy to fall into the trap of measuring our beginnings against someone else’s endings. And for those who have only just begun learning a skill, starting a business, or launching a workout regimen, it’s a natural reaction to compare our first step to others last. But this is fundamentally unfair to your progress, as