Do we lie about our age, or do others find inspiration from our maturity and mindfulness that come with a few wrinkles? Perhaps more importantly – can we laugh and glance lightheartedly at age and reality because it rocks for us? If so we’re likely the voracious seniors that Plato… Read more »
Fixed ideas of HOW SMART WE ARE keep us busy on gerbil wheels anxiously chasing perfection. Flexible growth mindset ideas of HOW WE ARE SMART keep us risking creativity to grow brilliance. How we think about intelligence has a lot to do with how we take advantage of our abilities… Read more »
What if Valentine’s Day brought a sturdier and more sustainable love to all of us? Imagine a world where wars paused to make room for genuine care and kindness expressed in social justice, for instance. We could start a Valentine revolution, that shifts our focus from sneers to smiles. Imagine… Read more »
Our assumptions can also bring blessings all around. It’s really a matter of going after grit, grace or gotcha grievances where blame blocks our brain’s gateways into grace. How so? Let’s say somebody wants to meet up in order to blame somebody else we happen to care for deeply. Perhaps a… Read more »
Tell our brains not to do a thing and it ignores your command because brains simply don’t do don’ts. They lack equipment to simply stop doing a thing while they come well equipped to act on or do a thing. Let’s say we wish to stop judging a sibling, or… Read more »
Inaccurate assumptions about the human brain often lead to harmful outcomes that block our incentives to tackle challenges and grow grit for innovative adventures that improve life for ourselves and those around us. While it’s true that the same boiling water that softens a potato also hardens an egg, it’s… Read more »
To say we have good people skills is to say we like people, express kindness, feel empathy, and care deeply about humanity. We tend to put others first and feel less self-pity when we are not served well. People skills come in varying degrees within our social or interpersonal IQ. We… Read more »
How are grandparents present in best ways for tweens and teens? As grandchildren grow and mature grandparents, or senior care givers, are even more relevant and significant as coaches and cheer leaders in their lives! Great adventures for tweens and teens challenge us to change from how we engaged them… Read more »
Too often emotional challenges in life leave us abandoning who we are in order to be loved or valued by who we know. Has it happened to you? How can genuine, unconditional love sustain in us its robust energy to love and be loved in healthier ways, after difficult emotional… Read more »
When his labs and factory burned to the ground on December 10th in 1914 after an enormous explosion blew up in West Orange, New Jersey, Edison reacted with a shocking response. Ten of the twenty buildings in Edison’s plant were already fully engaged and treasured buildings were being torched in… Read more »
