Are you stressed out because you haven’t figured it out yet? It’s an overwhelming and unfair question to ask ourselves. It’s the wrong question – it assumes that life is so predictable and linear that it’s possible and even expected at a young age to know exactly how you’re going to spend your 80-yr sojourn on earth. Let’s throw out the question and replace it with something like “what should the next step in your life be?” It’s much easier ...

There has been quite a revolution in Psychology over the past 20 years or so with the ideas around Emotional Intelligence. Daniel Goleman is one of the most prominent pioneers on the subject with his bestselling books Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence. The essence of the concept is that we have two biologically and functionally distinct parts of the brain – thinking and feeling. The problem is that the feeling part often takes over the thinking ...

Have you ever heard of the term “rainmaker?” It’s used a lot in business for someone who is a producer – someone who makes things happen – gets the job done. The term came from Native Americans who had medicine men who would seek to cause rain on the crops by performing various rituals. I thought about this term recently as I launched a new service for my business. In order for the service to be ...