I just finished reading Anil Seth’s book, “Being You”, which is an exploration of the research currently being done in consciousness. His book makes a brief reference to “solipsism”, the notion that nothing else exists outside your own mind. I’ve come across references to solipsism in several other books over the past few years, and …
Lessons from a Garden Task List
I struggle with tasks and getting things done just like the next person. I’m always on the lookout for the reasons why that is, though - lessons are to be found everywhere for me. Whether my tasks are work-related or just things in my personal life, I’ve found some things that help me understand my …
Analog & Digital
We all have yin & yang elements to us - light & dark, left & right, logical & creative. These elements can sometimes stand in stark contrast with each other and in some cases, we’ve become acclimatized to keeping them separate. I remember first learning about the left & right hemispheres of the brain in …
Failure is an Option
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 …