Another reason visiting North Korea became one of my most educational and thought-provoking experiences, as well as of my travel-mates. This experience was too incredible not to include it on my blog’s main page (if you haven’t been reading my North Korea posts, click to see the videos I’ve been posting of my trip there last April — some inspirational, all educational). Our tour bus took us to a kids[…] Keep reading →
When my friend was in the hospital last month I looked for jokes to cheer her up and found this one online. Now it’s one of my favorites. So much I wanted to share it here. Most jokes as funny as this one are dirty or off-color, so it’s nice to find a clean one this funny. What does it have to do with leadership, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, passion, importance,[…] Keep reading →
We’ve all had this annoying conversation. You’ve been on both sides of it. Admit it. I had a conversation with a friend yesterday. He was totally sure about something we disagreed over. I could tell he knew he was right, I was wrong, and had to convince me of it. Frankly, I felt I was right and he was wrong, but I didn’t feel so compelled to convince him of[…] Keep reading →
Hearing Dr. King talk about injustice anywhere being a threat to justice anywhere, I couldn’t help but notice how he polarized people too. The content is different, but the structure sounds like the “You’re either with us or against us” I heard from a U.S. President ten years ago. It tells people they aren’t safe, no matter where they are. If you read this page regularly, you know I don’t[…] Keep reading →
I try not to get too into television shows, but my roommates here in Shanghai are into Breaking Bad, a many-award-winning cable TV show, leading me to seeing most of season three, which they have on dvd. In the middle of watching, Lance Armstrong confessed to cheating. I couldn’t help but notice in both cases His story began with a modestly successful man getting cancer Which he overcame To a[…] Keep reading →
Yesterday I posted a short passage of self-talk you might have come up with yourself doing the self-talk exercises I recommend as two of the best exercises I know to raise your self-awareness (exercise 1: write your self-talk; exercise 2: voice your self-talk). Let’s do another, this time in the context of walking into a crowded room in a social situation. First, have you noticed what people do when they[…] Keep reading →
I’ve written before about the value of raising awareness of your self-talk and two exercises to raise it. The first is to write out your self-talk. The second, and harder, is to voice it. I still consider the first — writing your self-talk a few times a day every day for a week — one of the best, if not the best, self-awareness raising exercises I know of. I start[…] Keep reading →
I think it helps to look at the world from a different point of view sometimes. You see things differently. When I did yoga, sometimes my teacher would have us cross our arms left over right instead of right over left (or vice versa, depending on how you did it normally). If you’ve never done it, try it. I doubt it will make you suddenly enlightened, but it feels weird[…] Keep reading →
Following yesterday’s post on the Daily Show’s showing people saying they include and accept exclude and dismiss, here’s another on blaming and finger pointing, claiming others are doing it, not you. Watching the clip is funny, but I’m including it here because it gives us a chance to introspect. The point of this blog is to provide tools and insight to learn and grow, and I think this clip does[…] Keep reading →
