In Life Skills Coaching we sometimes use blue-sky exercises to see the possibilities we have before us. We ask questions like “what would this situation look like in a perfect scenario?” or “what would that look like if you couldn’t fail?”. These are wonderful questions to open our minds to what is possible. When we …
Parallel U(niverse)s
You may have noticed that I like to explore metaphors & symbols as ways to make an idea more tangible & concrete. It’s a bit of a game to see how far I can push the boundaries of the metaphor before it becomes a bit brittle or forced. A book that I recently finished has …
Chatter is the Ego’s Attempt to Gain Control
When does mental chatter appear for you? For me, it’s usually a work experience that causes me to notice an uptick in my mental chatter. Chatter is one of those activities that I didn’t understand or appreciate when I was younger. I did, however, feel its effects. It also became something that I unwittingly fed …
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Fear & judgement as impediments to Flow
Lately, I’ve been digging into the concept of “flow” and finding what helps me get into that state, and what impediments I need to work through. What triggered this for me was an honest look at how I can seemingly get into a state of flow with non-work activities like baking bread or playing music, …