Jan
30
How to Choose Well
January 30, 2000 | Leave a Comment
Learning how to make good choices is an invaluable skill in life. Whether choosing a career path or buying a new home, it saves the time, mistakes and the hassles of trial by error approaches. It also builds your confidence and self-worth, and generates its own positive momentum. Fortunately, with attention and care, learning [...]
Jan
29
Use the Bodymind Connection to "Be With" Difficult Moments
January 29, 2000 | Leave a Comment
“Being with” unwelcome and painful emotions, and threatening or confusing thoughts is difficult. They often evoke strong, visceral responses. It’s nice to recommend staying with difficult feelings as a way to get through them, but how do you do that? Some moments can be overwhelming, literally, physiologically. The nervous system, flooded with conflicting [...]
Jan
22
To Realize Big Goals, Set Your Intention First
January 22, 2000 | Leave a Comment
What is intention? Intention means, “to stretch toward.” It is the beginning of bending your mind toward a target. It is a force closely related to vision. Vision allows you to create reality, not merely to react to it. Intention inspires vision. Intention organizes your potential and brings [...]
Jan
22
Meet Your Needs Before Setting New Goals
January 22, 2000 | Leave a Comment
It’s the New Year and a new opportunity to take some time to reflect on various aspects of your life, to gauge how your inner vision matches up with what’s actually true in your life. It’s a natural and beneficial habit to raise your head above the familiar daily routine to see if the road [...]
Jan
22
Remove Habits of Psychological Pessimism
January 22, 2000 | Leave a Comment
One thing that holds people back from achieving their full potential is a low, sometimes crippling, sense of self-worth. While the causes of low self-esteem are various and open to speculation, understanding its origin is sometimes less useful in overcoming it than is becoming aware of the specific habits of speech and thought that [...]
Jan
20
Get Beyond Polarized Thinking
January 20, 2000 | Leave a Comment
As these Tips have taken a decidedly philosophical bent lately, I thought it might be instructive to describe some of their underpinnings, as they clearly reflect life viewed through a very particular lens. To frame it as broadly as possible in the language of my own thinking, what shines through most clearly is decidedly [...]
Jan
18
Cultivate Your Bodymind Connection
January 18, 2000 | Leave a Comment
Do you share an intimate rapport with your body? Do you carry on an internal dialog with your headache, tight shoulders, or tired feet? Have you ever noticed when your body just doesn’t want to go in the same direction you intend to take it? More importantly, do you ever ask it [...]
Jan
18
Find Your Peace of Mind
January 18, 2000 | Leave a Comment
No matter what we may say we want and strive for, at the end of our endeavors–with our money, comfort and kudos firmly in hand – what we are hoping to achieve is peace of mind, contentment, a stilling of the many voices that compete for air time in our awareness. Sometimes we get [...]
Jan
15
Do You Want to Be Right or to Have What You Want?
January 15, 2000 | Leave a Comment
Do you know people who complain a lot? You offer suggestions or advice, or even your sympathy, but nothing seems to move them? Or they have a reason why each of your ideas won’t work? How often do you refuse to be moved off your point, even when it might be [...]
Jan
13
What Matters in Building a Life That Works
January 13, 2000 | Leave a Comment
I am fascinated by the way world is changing. It’s a time of transformation where many of the old rules for how things get done are up for re-examination. I am particularly interested in how the wealth created by new technologies has challenged the business community to examine their ethical choices with regard to their [...]

