“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.” – Leonardo Da Vinci During the development phase of the Disneyland park attraction, Enchanted Tiki Room, about 50 years ago, Walt Disney convened a meeting with his team of Imagineers (the people who design and implement new and imaginative concepts at Walt Disney theme parks). Walt…
The Different Stages of Emotional Intimacy
“Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.” – John Green What most people want more than anything in the world is to be loved. What this means is that they want to be seen, heard, and understood. This is the basis of their burning desire to connect. In a…
5 Limiting Beliefs That Are Blocking Your Abundance
“The only limits you have are the limits you believe.” – Wayne Dyer During my time as a life coach, a recurring theme I observed was limiting beliefs. It was a common trend; the woman who didn’t believe she was beautiful enough to be truly loved. The teenager who didn’t think she was smart enough…
How to Deal with Culturally Ignorant People
“There is nothing more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” – Martin Luther King Jr. Have you ever encountered someone who judged or made an assumption about you based on your race, nationality, education, or socio-economic background? It’s certainly happened to me. Many times. I’ve been asked strange questions like if I rode camels…
Why Making Time for Self-Reflection is Essential
“The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates Before the age of the internet, social media, radio, and TV, people had more opportunity to ponder, dream and reflect on life’s big truths. Ancient Greek philosophers roamed their white marble forums, lost deep in thought. Monks wandered in the wilderness in search of truth and…
4 Signs That Your Priorities Are Probably Wrong
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (goe-tha) There are certain times in life when we lose sight of our priorities and get off track; life gets too busy, a crisis occurs, we fall into the wrong company, or we simply fail to…
How Your Attachment Style Affects Your Relationships
“Learn the difference between connection and attachment. Connection gives you power, Attachment sucks the life out of you.” We all crave deep and meaningful connections. We long to be in union, in mind, body, and spirit, with that one special person. So why do we find it so difficult to find? Part of the problem…
When a Risk is Worth Taking
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” – John F. Kennedy From the moment you open your eyes in the morning, you’re faced with decisions that involve some degree of risk. Not everything requires risk. These are what I call the ‘ho-hum’…
How to Increase Your Global Fluency and Knowledge
“Local minded people will never understand global minded goals.” One of the first educational toys I received as a child was a world globe. I took great pleasure in spinning it on its axis and admiring the colors of each continent as they floated on the vast blue oceans. As a child, however, I never…
Why Your Intuition May Not Always Be Right
“Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.” ― Daniel Kahneman We’ve all had ‘gut feelings. Maybe you’ve had a sense that someone was untrustworthy, despite their outward appearance of sincerity, or you’ve heard an inner voice tell you that a particular work opportunity was right for…
