What is it about relationships that we find so rewarding? What kind of people do we gravitate towards? Is it their words? Is it their advice? When we have a good, solid, friendship or relationship, and connection with someone what are they doing that makes it so? What can we focus on in our relationships… Read More »
Archives for May 2017
True Calling Project 30 – Bryan Wright: Grief and the Phenomenon of Denying Death
Death is a unique process in human experience in that it can only be directly experienced by the participant, and it cannot be recorded. In almost everything else in life, people are ready and willing to offer advice… but, in this one area, they can’t. Bryan Wright, like many of us, is fascinated by this… Read More »
True Take 023: The Essence of Bullshit
NSFW. Or maybe it’s AFW (appropriate for work). This isn’t clickbait. Because clickbait is bullshit. This is about smiling through and letting go of a lot of what we get tied up in on a day to day basis. Do we really HAVE to put our energies and efforts into things that we can’t control?… Read More »
True Calling Project 29 – Trevor Oldham: Become the Lion & Make an Impact
Today’s guest, Trevor Oldham, is a 20-year-old college student and co-founder of Become The Lion, one of the top ranked motivational blogs. Trevor has entrepreneurship in his blood, and he’s been running businesses since he was a kid. When Trevor was 17, he had success importing phone cases from China and selling them. It was… Read More »
True Take 022: The Ripple Effect
Funny how we fail to appreciate our impact on the people around us and our environment both in a positive and negative way. We judge our impact as negligible when we are really the one’s that need to be judging. All our job is to express and create and leave the judging to others. People… Read More »
True Take 021: Doubling Down
Listen up control freaks and self care junkies! This is for you. And for me. I’m done. Tired. Spent. Things are reaching their limit here with my business. But this time, instead of trying to self medicate the stress with “self care”, I’m going to listen to it. Instead of trying to strangle control and… Read More »
True Take 020: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
(Podcast episode) Interesting opportunities are coming up lately. Things that I never would have imagined even 3 or 4 years ago. What if our limited mindset really is the problem? We try to seek certainty before we act thinking there should be this clear linear pattern from which to base our decisions from. We think… Read More »
True Calling Project 28 – Frances Harvey: Letting Go and Allowing Others to Help You Expand
Frances Harvey is a Professional Certified Coach targeted directly towards therapists and mental health clinicians, providing support, advice and all manner of help so they can reach their goal of running a successful practice and business. In this episode, we talk a lot about the idea of letting go. We all know that trust is… Read More »
True Take 019: When Should I “Suck it Up”?
(Podcast episode) When should I push through and suck it up? This comes up a lot for me. When do I push through and when is it ok to let go and relax? When is it time to step it up and when is it ok to take a break? If we only push ourselves… Read More »
If achievements and behavior don’t define who we are, what does?
The past few years watching my kids grow has been interesting to say the least. Aside from the joy of being a parent, the struggles that come with it, and the endless self reflection on my “parenting abilities”, I’ve noticed something profound. When children are born and when they are young they don’t question… Read More »