Tag: self-improvement

  • a better way. week twenty nine

    Do you wake up feeling inspired? Do you feel your day is filled with a sense of meaning and purpose? Do you go to bed feeling fulfilled? Do you want to? In Simon Sinek’s The Infinite Game, he describes his ‘just cause’ (his why for his what) to be that he wants to contribute to […]

  • a better way. week eighteen

    In Yoga, some facilitators will put you in a pose and then say, ‘full expression’. Put simply, this means to lengthen something, soften something, expand something. In the storyitell workbook, I describe the cues (lengthen, soften, expand) as superhero pose and connect it to Amy Cuddy’s interpretation of presence. In Amy’s popular body language TED […]

  • a better way. week eleven

    In the event that you (reader) pay attention to particulars, I titled last Sunday’s book club post week eleven, then changed it to week ten. Today’s post is the official week eleven (wink). I’m certain I have mentioned it, but I suppose I find it fulfilling to mention it once again: each excerpt from abetterway […]

  • a better way. week five

    The infinite potential of pure awareness. When I walk in to an 8th grade Science classroom, I’m interested in hearing what they are learning in Physics. I did not take Physics. Ever. It was offered as an elective in 12th grade (if I remember correctly), and you had to be ‘approved’ to be in the […]

  • a better way. week three

    It was depression that introduced me to the visceral experience of resistance. I did not want to go to work. I played games with myself to get out of the house. At times, it felt as if there was an energetic wall between my body and the door to leave. I’d bribe myself with Starbucks. […]