When people engage in comparing themselves to others they rarely come out on top. A Narcissist, on the other hand, has an inflated ego due to an inner world of self-doubt. The narcissistic behavior is an overcompensation for this inner reality. That is not most of us. In my life when I make comparisons to […]
May 3, 2016
I Am Not Always What My Thoughts Say I Am
Over the past couple of years I’ve trying to be more mindful of my thoughts and feelings. It’s easy to blow past our inner world through the busyness of the day. We have hundreds of thoughts that flow beneath the surface of our consciousness and occasionally they bubble to the surface. At times I […]
November 8, 2014
The Humbling Power of Failure
Biography’s of extremely successful people have often revealed that they have had their share of failures. Steve Jobs was forced out of Apple, the company he founded. J.K. Rowling was living on welfare when she wrote Harry Potter. Tim Ferris was rejected by dozens of publishers before someone took a chance on The […]
November 1, 2014
We All Need A Little Compassion…From Ourselves
I believe that a universal experience in life is that we are often extremely hard on ourselves. We criticize ourselves for our failures and shortcomings, we devalue our strengths and contributions, and we tear at the fabric of our very being with anger and sometimes hatred. We don’t always see this in others because this […]