A mind focused fully on others cannot feel fear. For example, to ‘interrupt’ references your self as the cause for rupture, which is a kind of destruction. However, to ‘intervene’ references yourself as the champion for a greater good outside of you. Both words offer […]
Read MoreWe see the world that we ARE. We are each a collection of patterns, predispositions, and propensities. We are entanglements of flesh, bones, nerves and chemicals moving through the universe at light speed and bouncing into circumstances. Our seeing is the result of the dance […]
Read MoreWhen I’m conscious, I operate from the perspective that anything another person does that I don’t like is being created by me. I mean this in two ways. First, that I am creating my experience of another person’s behavior as undesirable by how I’m thinking […]
Read MoreWho we be in the world creates an idea of us in the minds of others. This idea then acts as an opposing force that keeps our identity in place. When I was a teenager, I was extremely sarcastic. To the point that I became […]
Read MoreAbout 15 years ago, I was worried because I damaged something in my house. I was a new homeowner. I was telling my Dad and he said, “Don’t worry. If you can build it, you can fix it.” And that just let me off the […]
Read MoreWhen I was growing up the word ‘shithole’ was used a lot around me. As a kid, I thought it meant a place that was dirty, but as I got older I learned it also to mean a place with more crime and where the […]
Read MoreI learned recently that the Germanic root of the word ‘believe’ literally means ‘to hold dear’ or ‘to love’. As it evolved into English, for many centuries the word ‘belief’ represented ‘faith’. It was used to describe our relationship to ideas that could not be […]
Read MoreAt parents night, my first-grade teacher told my mother that I was “reckless” and “would never amount to anything”. My mom left in tears and from that point onward, I was sent home with behaviour notes every single day. When I was 12, after years […]
Read MoreWhen I use the word ‘should’ I try to use the word ‘shit’ in place of it. It’s a reminder to me, and whoever I’m speaking to, that to use the word SHOULD is basically SHIT. If I say… ‘I should have called’ or ‘I […]
Read MoreWhen I look back over the eight years of my work as a coach, the common thread I see is that every conversation has been a dance. A dance between the way someone sees their world and the way that I can see it through […]
Read MoreWhen I lifted this weight a few of weeks ago, I let out a primal scream. It was an involuntary response to giving it everything I had. Afterwards, when people at the competition asked how I felt, I found myself saying, “I’m happy with how […]
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