“A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” –Mary Poppins Apparently, medicine used to be gross, but you could get kids to take it by offering them a spoonful of sugar to go with. Nowadays, the sugar (or possibly artificial sweetener) is mixed right in, but there is still wisdom to found in this old aphorism. To be clear, I’m not talking about actual medicine. I’m talking about healthy… Read More »A Spoonful of Sugar…
Bestselling Buddhist author Sylvia Boorstein says we should all be more like our GPS.1 By that, she doesn’t mean we should all be better at locating the nearest coffee shop or finding the fastest route through traffic. She’s referring to the way we talk to ourselves when we make mistakes. Typically, when I make a mistake, I get upset with myself. Sometimes I get frustrated, sometimes I get angry, sometimes… Read More »“Recalculating”
Mindsets are very important. The way you see yourself, the lens through which you approach problems, your habitual ways of thinking – these all play a large role in determining the course of your life. And while there are many different mindsets that we’d all be wise to cultivate, one stands out above the others. Without this mindset, the other helpful mindsets aren’t so helpful and probably wouldn’t be adopted in… Read More »Being Proactive: The Most Important Mindset
How often do you go to work? If you’re like most people, your answer is “Five times per week.” But that answer is almost certainly wrong. You probably go to work a lot more often than that because when you’re not at work, you frequently go there in your mind. We all do it, and it’s certainly not making us any happier. Perhaps, by becoming more aware of it, we… Read More »Don’t Go to Work in Your Mind