BLOG
Hi! Welcome to my blog. I’ll post here weekly thoughts on the components of the mindset needed to be successful: grounded confidence, growth mindset, commitment, stress management, and personal responsibility. Looking forward to having you join me!
BLOG.
Hi! Welcome to my blog. I’ll post here weekly thoughts on the components of the mindset needed to be successful: grounded confidence, growth mindset, commitment, stress management, and personal responsibility. Looking forward to having you join me!
As a reminder, last week I started with the definition of stress: Stress: The feeling resulting from the belief that I don’t have enough resources (time, money, assistance, etc.) or
I hear lots of people talking about how stressed they are. Often, this is accompanied by some version of “I have a really stressful job” or “My home life is
I had an experience a few months ago where I was convinced that I was going through writer’s block. I wasn’t, but I thought I was. Given that this taught
I saw a post on Instagram the other day that perfectly encapsulated everything that’s wrong with self-help advice. It was entitled “How to Change Your Mindset” and included, among other
When I read Brené Brown’s wonderful Atlas of the Heart, the idea of having no regrets is one of the few things that she wrote that I didn’t entirely agree
Today, I want to follow up on last week’s post about the attitudes that can get in the way of doing mirror affirmations. While it’s important to know how not
I was walking with my wife in the park a while ago, and we saw a group of people playing spikeball. There were three adults, one girl who looked to
“Fake it until you make it” is an idea that has been a part of recovery lore for longer than I’ve been involved in recovery, and has gained some additional
There were countless times early in my recovery process when I would think to myself, “I should be {insert self-critical thing here}.” I would berate myself about what I should
I remember one time I had about two years in recovery, and I came to my sponsor with a problem. I don’t remember what the problem was (this was a
When you look at the title, it’s entirely possible that your response is “Duh. Of course they are. I knew that.” And, of course, I thought I knew that all
This is one of my favorite exercises to help gain perspective and reset my thinking. It’s inspired in large part by Richard Carlson’s amazing Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, as