Endings and Beginnings

Endings and Beginnings

For me, the prelude of a new year starts in early December, with my birthday, and lasts for three weeks. A few years ago a good friend of mine called her birthday the take-off point for her next journey around the sun, and I liked the image so much, I’ve begun to also...
Attributes of 5 Modes of Emotion

Attributes of 5 Modes of Emotion

I was first exposed to the concept of emotional energy when my first child was a toddler. While participating in a life-long learning conference, I attended a session on parenting. The speaker talked about how we can impact our children’s lives by what we fear for...

The Power of Focus

On a podcast recently (I regret I can’t remember which one), I listened to a woman describe how she won a marathon by consciously focusing on successive mini-targets, one after another, during the race. Sometimes she would focus on a brightly colored pair of shorts...