Category: identity

Stand up for your goodness

May 13, 2013 | 5 comments

Do you ever feel mentally beat up? Like everything you do is wrong, you can’t get it right, or you do get it right but an internal accusatory voice decries your work and berates your efforts and motives with criticism and

You are unique and special

April 22, 2013 | 4 comments

Have you ever felt like there was nothing special about you? That you were a common person with bland characteristics that caused you to blend into a vast crowd of humanity like a grain of sand sitting unnoted among billions

Comfort with being different

March 6, 2013 | 5 comments

Do you ever feel pressure to be like someone else, even though they are very different from you? Do you compromise your ideals to please others? Do you cave to pressure from peers? Do you feel like you have to

Be victor over anger; not a victim

February 28, 2013 | 2 comments

He who angers you conquers you. ~ Elizabeth Kenny Would you rather be a victim or a victor? If a victor, then don’t let another’s actions fill you with anger. Pride, ego, and self-righteousness are the enemies to fend off

What constitutes success?

February 22, 2013 | 2 comments

A friend was lamenting failed career expectations. Over a few decades of work and career, he wasn’t where he thought he should be. His friends from college were making bigger wages than he was. He didn’t have much money in