Exploring The Ambition To Be Famous
Those of us who live in Los Angeles are constantly aware of the city’s draw for those seeking fame. People come from all over the world to develop careers in show business. Their sheer ambition of wanting to become famous is often raw and sometimes scary. What has been your relationship to fame? Is it […]
What Could You Learn That Could Transform Your World?
What could you learn that would transform your life experience? Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” You may be out of a formal educational structure, but learning continues to be the best way to create positive change. As our world grows ever more quickly […]
Transformation In Professional Situations
Transformation is often not much fun in the moment. Consider the necessity of changing a professional situation that isn’t working. You might have been giving and giving – to the point of imbalance – in a business or client relationship. The giving wasn’t reciprocated, and after you’ve tried all kinds of ways to change it, […]
“To Change Skins, Evolve Into New Cycles, I Feel One Has To Learn To Discard” – Anais Nin
One of my dearest friends is moving to a new home that is deliberately smaller and simpler. The move is part of a simplification of her life that she began two years ago – as part of a specific intention to transform her life into being more spiritually-driven. Writer Anais Nin wrote: “To change skins, […]
“The Happiness Of A Man In This Life Does Not Consist In The Absence But In The Mastery Of His Passions.” – Tennyson
Do ALL humans have a driving desire to transform something in their lives? In my profession, by definition, everyone with whom I come in contact is seeking positive change – but I don’t assume that that applies equally to all of us. How strong is your desire to transform? What are the burning issues that […]
“The Revolution That Will Save The World Is Ultimately A Personal One” – Marianne Williamson
The literal definition of “transformation” is to change form. We humans transform from one stage of growth into another. Some transformations are painful, of course, but it is the nature of a living being to change, grow and transform into successive stages. A useful question for those who wish to move forward is how to […]
“You May Ask Yourself, Well, How Did I Get Here?” – Talking Heads
Wikipedia serves up a fascinating perspective on hindsight: “Hindsight bias is the inclination to see events that have occurred as being more predictable than they were before they took place.” It’s natural to want to explain why events occurred the way that they have; and it’s understandable that, if one believes hindsight is 20-20, that […]
How Would You Assess Your Ability To Use Hindsight In Favorable And Useful Ways?
The benefits of hindsight have generally to do with learning from mistakes and the purported ability to develop complete understanding (as in 20-20 hindsight) of the past. What happens if we’re wearing less than perfect “lenses” as we review the past? I’ve known many people who carry what I call a “cup of worry” that […]
“It May Be Difficult To Learn From Our Mistakes” ~ Diane Halpern
Not everyone shares the same sanguine view of hindsight. Author Diane Halpern is downright contrarian and writes: “Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a ‘foregone conclusion.’ Thus, it may […]
Is Hindsight Truly 20-20?
The old saying is that hindsight is 20-20, but is it really? Perhaps in an ideal world, we’d learn from our mistakes so well that our analysis of what happened would be perfect – but life experience teaches that often the same kinds of analyses that produced the “mistake” in the first place are at […]