"What are you WAITING for?" Jolt 11_4_13 What are you waiting for? Many are waiting for the right circumstances, the right timing, the right …. Fill in the blank. Ray Bradbury voices a wildly different approach. He proposes "Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down." [...]
"On the edge of uncertainty?" Threatened with uncertainty, many respond by seeking the safety of certainty. In so doing, however, we give up lingering in the void of possibilities that underlies uncertainty. In clutching the edge of uncertainty, fearing to soar into its darkness, what do we lose? The social psychologist and author of “Escape [...]
Becoming...? The transformation of the earliest form of the nervous system as a tube to the complicated structure of the adult is nothing less than amazing. Neurons, the cells of the nervous system, born in the rudimentary tube must develop and migrate as the tube transforms to find their appropriate place in the nervous system. [...]
Calm in the middle of Chaos Chaos follows adversity. We might experience shock, dismay, a sense of being buffeted about, a loss of control. Though unpleasant, some misfortune will enter our human lives. How do we navigate it in a way that allows us to stay afloat? William James, the father of modern psychology tells [...]
Don't miss tonight's event: September 18, 2013 Create your NEW Story: Committed people on your team - you do not have to do it alone. Participate from ANYWHERE - 1.5 hr interactive program with author Joan C. King Register at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/joan-c-king Watch the program LIVE and text in your questions! 4:30 pm Pacific [...]
Flooding in Colorado This is the scene in Buckhorn Canyon, next canyon to the west of our canyon - Redstone Canyon. There are no floods around our home! Two roads in our canyon were flooded. We received a reverse 911 call Thurs – to either evacuate or stay put for days. I chose to stay [...]
Rollo May, Ph.D. Psychologist, author of 15 books, including The Courage To Create,who along with Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow was a founder of humanistic psychology asks, “What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?” Fountainhead? That is a powerful word, defined not only as source, but [...]
"Escape the confines of STRESS!" So many of us live with prolonged stress, whether from pressures at work and/or home. Nevertheless, decisions that affect our future or that of others must be made, even while we are experiencing chronic stress. A study by researchers in Portugal published in the July 2012 issue of Translational Psychiatry [...]
What's NEXT for you? How many times do we set a goal, map out a pathway, create a strategy and set our sights on charging ahead only to find that we are not moving forward? Once we realize our paralysis, we launch into berating ourselves about our self-sabotage. Wouldn’t it be more useful to engage [...]