How to Better Reason with a Man
Men and women often have a failure to communicate. If we talk to someone who processes information differently than us, then we need to adapt in order to be heard. Here are some tips I’ve learned to heed.
Do you have raccoon eyes?
After finding cat food strewn around the kitchen floor with globs of it dropped in the water bowl, I realized we had a raccoon invasion. This continued for several nights even after we put the cat food in the kitchen sink.
I called my brother in San Francisco who has had a continual problem with raccoons breaking in through his cat door. He said there was nothing I could do except
Is the world scary or friendly?
I had an amazing thing happen TWICE in less than 24 hours that had me questioning how we judge if the world is a safe place to live in or not.
How to make next year better
As work slows down for the holidays and you begin to reflect on what you want for yourself next year, are you thinking about setting goals to solve your problems?
I hope not.
Instead consider, “What do I want to create next year?” You are full of gifts, capacity, intelligence, skills and love—you have everything you need to declare a new and exciting promise for yourself.
Peter Block, in his book Community:
Five tips for detaching from judgment
Judgment takes up real estate in your brain. Your working memory has limited capacity. When you are judging others or yourself, you are limiting your creativity. You are also decreasing your sense of humor and fun.
When you negatively judge someone, you can barely hear what they have to say.
Tip #1 Take in and release your breath slowly to clear your mind.
You might find the person who is annoying you isn’t
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