Coffee & Common Sense

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" ~ Mary Oliver

The past is gone and the future a dream. Your place of power is now. Your life is lived in the present moment. What are you doing with it?

It's often said that success leaves clues. I find it so curious that the clues most successes have left run counter to the common tale of the fiercely independent entrepreneur succeeding against all odds, often despite lacking social skills and being possessed of a deplorable personality. That, friends, is not the reality revealed by our breadcrumb trail of success. Nobody does it alone. Let's look at what DOES work. 

Many people see no as a pushing away of that which is unwanted, or the shutting off of possibility. What if we have it all backwards? What if no is really the key to the life we always wanted? Let's talk about it.

What can an internationally acclaimed mathematician and a visionary statistician teach us about how to achieve our dreams? As it turns out, they have a formula for that. 

If you have trouble accepting compliments, you're going to want to hear this. Grab your coffee and let's get into it. 

Sometimes we get knocked down. Sometimes we fail. Life happens. And at those times, we also know we need to get up. There is no shortage of advice for how to bounce back from failure but the first step is always getting back up. And there IS a shortage there. How do you get back up when you feel like you just can't? Grab your coffee, and let's talk about it. 

Honesty is a shared value across the world's major (and not so major) religions. But do we understand what it really means as applied to our businesses? It's much more than speaking truthfully and having fair business practices. Grab your coffee, and let's get into it. 

My grandfather once told me, when he was well into his 90s, "I didn't get this old by being stupid!" Fair point. In the spirit of honoring the wisdom of those who came before us, I'm sharing the Ivy Lee Method today, a productivity hack that has been making people wealthier and more productive since 1918. Grab your coffee, and let's dig in. 

Oneness is our foundation but our perceived experience is of separation, individuality. How can we experience oneness? It turns out...it can be as simple as asking the question. 

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk says trauma comes back as a reaction, not a memory. One common form of reaction is belief in a foreshortened future: loss of hope, limited expectations, or fear that normal life events will not occur. In other words, trauma, when unaddressed, can dramatically impact how capable we feel of accessing our possibilities. Let's talk about some simple things we can do to support ourselves and our possibility mindsets while we go about the business of addressing our injuries. 

PLEASE NOTE: I am neither a doctor nor a therapist, and I  am in no way suggesting that people should not seek appropriate treatment.