Principles

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Pain is a story. Pain has physical components as well as mental and emotional ones, but at its core pain is a story intended to get our attention. This first came to me in yoga class during a pose …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Solving problems can be fun. Discerning the issue(s), defining desirable outcomes, recalling previous similar situations, gathering resources, taking actions, and achieving a victory. Whoopee! Another problem solved. But then there are those times when it’s Not Your Problem:You didn’t …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Trial-and-error is a tried-and-true approach to life. The issue with it is people seem to focus on the error part. When something they try doesn’t work out they get all self-judgmental. “That was dumb.” “I shouldn’t have done that.” …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Don’t look for closure; there is no closure; it just keeps opening. You never get to the bottom of anything. What happened, happened. Learn from it, grow from it. Life happens for you, not to you. It keeps giving …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) It’s routine to want to change the world. After all, if they/it/over there would change to the way you want, then your life would be better/easier/happier. Sure, but how best to change them/it/over there? Well, you don’t. You change …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) No, this is not about THE box at the end although that may be the thought that arose from the title. This is about the boxes at the many ends which occur in life. You move to a new …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) “Old Socks, New Shoes” is part of the title of a music album by The Jazz Crusaders. Strangely, I think the phrase holds a Coaching thought. Sometimes in life it’s time for something new. We want it, or need …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Reactions to this S3MC seem to be binary, either agree or not like it at all. So be it. I sure didn’t like it when it was first revealed to me. Upon awakening to its wisdom, I found levels …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) There are many ways to learn. This S3MC is about learning through the process of writing. In first high school, then college I was at best an awkward writer, uncomfortable creating sentences, paragraphs, whole papers. Struggling to write was …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) You become what you study. You study because you have to. You have to because someone or some situation makes you. Or you have to because you are so drawn to it that, well, you have to. Research, analyze, …