Humans are pretty universally terrible at predicting what will make them happy. Lori Santos teaches about this in a class on happiness at Yale, and one of her favorite examples is talking to strangers in public. Pretty much all of us think our lives will be worse off if we talked to strangers in public. […]
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Are you preventing yourself from fully living your life?
Are you preventing yourself from fully living your life?First of all, be gentle with yourself if that’s true. You may not have been ready until now to make this shift. It’s a major shift. Stick with me for a glimpse of how I explain this shift to coaching clients. Early in our lives, we needed […]
Confronting new opportunities
Just wrapped another online coaching group. One of the things on which we reflected was our personal tendencies when confronted with a new opportunity.I research a little, but once I’m convinced that it will move me toward my goals I take action, and then learn more as I go. Another person was happy dwelling in […]