How would you coach someone who was suffering from self-doubt?

Would you coach them to dwell in it? Or gloss over it? Or complain about it?

None of the above, instead I say, “Bring it on.”

It’s leaning into the inevitable.

It’s facing the storm.

It’s strengthening your very soul before doubt can take hold as a way of being.

You bring your attention to what is in front of you, so you can take deliberate action.

You don’t pretend that something or someone could be different or better. You are a conscious being. You see clearly now, and that is what allows you to say, “Bring it.” Bring it now, not later. Now. read more

Conditional happiness anyone?

It means conditions have to be right for you to be happy!

It’s great when conditions are perfect. But then you’re only happy when things are going great. Job is good, relationships are working, and health is radiant. It’s a top of the world experience.

We’ve been there, and then something happens and conditions aren’t perfect. Then the tendency is for happiness to fly out the door. So I wonder if happiness is sustainable, can it be unconditional? read more

2 people.

Samestory.
2 approaches.

Both people wanted to move out and away from where they found themselves trapped.

Both were comfortable in their physical environments, but not happy, fulfilled, or energized in their every day life.

Both people started with a complaint! The complaints were worded a little differently, but the bottom line was “this wasn’t supposed to be the way it turned out!”

But that’s where the similarity ended. read more