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I must have it my way. I wish I had it my way. Just making that change in our self-talk can make all the difference between healthy and unhealthy decisions. That first phrase, of course, is a demand, and demandingness is reflective of words such as “should” (or…

“You’re not following through, Mike,”  my poor friend calmly recited for the umpteenth time.  “Golf is a game of follow through.  You’re stopping the club when you hit the ball.” “You’ve got no follow through on that jumper, Mike,” my angry basketball coach shouted.  “Follow…

Once upon a time, a squirrel was wandering through some woods when, suddenly, she heard some cries for help.  She followed the sounds to a deep hole among the trees.  At the bottom of the hole, a snake looked up and said, “Oh, thank goodness…

  Nunc coepi. Are you up on your Latin?  No need to Google it; I’ll explain. Nunc coepi.  “Now, I begin.” Here, today, this moment–this is when you begin to make the changes in your life that you’ve wanted to make, but haven’t yet.  Right…

“If only I had known he was such a narcissist.  I never would’ve married him.” That may be true, but you would have probably married someone else, and, while that person may not have been a narcissist, they would certainly have had their own issues. …

It’s a legitimate question to ask anyone: why are you working in the field in which you are?  For some people, the answer is a simple, “This is what I’ve always wanted to do.”  For others, though, the answer is more complicated.  Some people just…