Dependency & Reactivity Lead to Disempowerment

Avoiding the Truth Undermines your Ability to Create

A Creative Life is not a Stress Free Life

The NFL Tells a Tale of Spirituality in our Society
The infamous declaration by Friedrich Nietzsche that "God is Dead" is often divorced from the context of Nietzsche's observations. In the medieval European city, the most important physical presence in any city was the Cathedral or Church. It was a physical manifestation of the place of God and religion in the life of the people who lived there.In the modern city, buildings of commerce had taken the place of the Cathedral and commerce had taken the place of religion as the most prominent driving and organizing force in modern life. In his book, The Gay Science, Nietzsche elaborates that man has killed God by removing God from the center of his life. The truth in Niet

Flow: Interest, Intention and Growth
About 15 years ago, I picked up a book that provided me with great insight into the relationship between challenges and my experience of them. The book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a researcher at the University of Chicago laid out an intriguing case regarding our experience of life or work or recreation. Although based in research, it is written for a general audience.Flow essentially is a dynamic event that occurs when the following are in alignment:1) Our personal and specific interests2) Our personal growth3) The balance between our current skill set and our immediate challengesWhile this underlying

Financial Independence: Tough Times and Bankruptcy
When it comes to money, I continue to suggest that you read either the book, Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicky Robbins or find the old taped course " How to Transform Your Relationship With Money and Achieve Financial Independence" by Joe Dominguez. Money along with Food are two things that live an emotional life within us that often distorts how we use and respond to them. This distortion leads to us acting in a way that may satisfy an emotion in the short-term but leads us away from what we want.When you combine the emotion of your childhood regarding money, with the general lack of education we receive about it, it is no wonder that most of us hav

Breathing and Calming the Mind
Although not a great book, I own an interesting book about working with "dinosaurs" that identifies the reptilian responses behind those difficult people at work. When confronted, a reptile either fights, flees or freezes. Inside our human brain are those reptilian impulses and they are triggered during periods of stress and anxiety.If you want to read more about the evolution of the human mind in a readable book, I would suggest; Boca's Brain by Dr. Carl Sagan. (Yes, it was written by the "billions of stars" astronomer.)The reptilian response to freeze, results in us holding our breath when we are stressed or in discomfort. It is not just t

Fear is Self Limiting or Self Defeating
Whether it is marriage, a career, a business or school; the fear of failure often leads to behavior which short cuts real success and ultimately leads to either to a stagnant mediocrity or a complete disaster.Between my first post-college job at International Paper Company and attending graduate school at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), I went to Europe for a five week journey. In the second week of the trip, while riding the bullet train from Venice to Florence, I noticed the headlines of the newspaper of a fellow passenger. The headline declared; "Il Tragedio Spazio". It was January of 1986 and later that day, I