Its Always Hard to Leave Home: The Challenge of Change Change always comes bearing gifts. —Price Pritchett, PhD Change Management Expert Five months into the “New” year how many of us have broken promises to ourselves? New research suggests that it is not due to inertia, laziness or lack of willpower. Harvard professors Kegan and...Read More

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. —Viktor Frankl Besieged at every turn with stress, work, family, and traffic? Ambushed by the emotional wake of others or a toxic food environment? Have you tried to...Read More

Vulnerability (latin wounding first known use 1605) No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. — C.S. Lewis When we are going through an exceptionally hard time in our life, we may find it irritating or insensitive to hear about the tenants of positive psychology. The full experiencing of grief makes us...Read More

Worry is a Choice Worry: wor·ry ˈwərē/ old English- to strangulate To worry is to feel troubled and uneasy, true fear is a gift, unwarranted fear is a curse and misuse of imagination. —Gavin De Becker, author the Gift of Fear An excessive degree of worry impacts our health and well-being. Many of us latch...Read More

The Anti- New Years Resolution Does your New Year’s resolution look like this? Of the 45% of Americans that make resolutions, only 8% achieve their goals. This bleak picture may stem from not applying proven methods in human change science. In order to avoid magical thinking on setting New Year’s goals, the strategy of mental...Read More

Clearing Clutter* to Honor the Self Clutter (noun) \ˈklə-tər\ middle English first used in 1556, Cloterne: Clot We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. —Tao Te Ching There is a link between a disorganized home or office and the messy thoughts that can muddle well-being....Read More

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. —Simone de Beauvoir The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology went to scientists who discovered the intelligence of cells was not its nucleus, but its membrane. The cell membrane, it turns out, is the “brains” of the cell and is fully in charge of how...Read More

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. —Rumi Almost universally, when a person is feeling overwhelmed in life, it is due to the tragic expression of unmet needs. We are all dealing with the demands to do more with less, we have multiple, and sometimes conflicting roles (parenting...Read More

Change your state of mind by firing every thought you ever had and have it re-interview for its position. —Gretchen Pisano One of the five central components of human wellbeing is the ability to feel positive emotions, really feel them. Feeling positive emotions is not the same as thinking them. It means letting the positive emotion...Read More

Straightening out The Inner Life: We Become What We Think About If we want to experience self-confidence on the outside, we must practice integrity on the inside. Self-confidence flows from a foundation consistent with our innermost thoughts. In this sense, we are self-made. We are where we are because of the thoughts we have allowed...Read More