Category: Self Awareness

  • winter doldrums.

    I began writing yesterday morning. I was hopeful to publish because I love the first day of a new month. Below is yesterday, followed by a continued reflection from today. It’s March 1. 21ish days left of the Winter season. Because of the yoga teacher training I participated in from August-November 2024, I added to […]

  • same but different?

    Have you ever been in a situation where someone is helping you, or vice versa, on a digital device and you find yourself in a state of wonderment because of how the other navigates their device? In my initial experience of the above years ago, I assumed it was just a one-off, an interesting observation. […]

  • something more. week fourteen

    Yesterday on my drive home I listened to the first part of a podcast that was interviewing an author on her new book about neurodiversity. Two things that are on my mind this morning taken from the listen: 1. ‘…if you have met one person with autism, you have met one person with autism…’, 2. […]

  • a better way. week seven

    Before I share this week’s excerpt from abetterway. using inner resources to create your own algorithm, I’d like to share a few inspiring podcast interviews that showed up in my algorithm this past week. Both podcasts are interviews with people I stumbled upon early on in my journey in day. Rich Roll interviews Ellen Langer, […]

  • a better way. week four

    Last night, I listened to a conversation between Trevor Noah and Kevin Hart on Trevor’s new podcast, What Now? Side note: In today’s excerpt, I begin with a version of What now?: I say now what? to suggest that life is continuous. Achievement is growth, and then there’s the next thing. Always. In the podcast […]

  • wait.

    The content in this blog post includes skills, tools, and strategies from the checkIN tool as well as Something More. Connecting to the pulse of a Shared Humanity. Both by me: Sally Seiffer.

  • begin.

    Memories, feelings, story themes can ‘run the show’ when one loses focus of one’s power to be the noticer. When one is the noticer, one is practicing the skill of awareness. When one is aware of one’s thoughts and the story they tell, one is demonstrating the power to choose the story being told. Broad story themes tend to fall…

  • self-awareness

    I am certain that there is no greater skill to improve your general state of being: more satisfied, more in control, more creative, more open, more free, more (fill in the blank)…

  • create

    Over the past few days I’ve watched several episodes of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Whatever intentional or unintentional (who am I kidding?) branding of tech superstars is not lost on me. I became intrigued by the tech industry when I became intrigued by mindfulness.

  • on board thinking.

    To keep it simple, on board thinking is a tool that can release resistance to new ideas. The idea would be that when hearing an idea that is different, can you be open to allowing the energy of possibility rather than refusal?