None of these are huge, earth-shattering ideas, but 3 things will help you start 2019 off well. Unsubscribe Start by culling your email lists. After Christmas, when every single online purchase requires my email address for confirmation, I suddenly realize I’m getting 32 emails before I’m even out of bed in the morning. And...
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Dangerous Mindsets: Threats and Shadows
Dangerous mindsets are patterns of thought that become our defaults in an unhealthy way. They can look like one-way streets. But another dangerous mindset involves threats and shadows. Threats and Shadows Some of us, either from experience or because of how we’re wired, see everything around us in terms of threats and shadows. By that,...
Dangerous Mindsets: One Way Streets
Since I started with a driving example in yesterday’s post, I thought I’d continue the metaphor to talk about one of the most dangerous mindsets, especially for moms. The one way street mindset. One Way Streets One way streets have a purpose. They are designed to direct traffic in areas where congestion is already...
Dangerous Mindsets
For the last week, I’ve been thinking about how I think. And how you (probably) think. And how easily we slip into dangerous mindsets – ways of thinking that hold us back and keep us from being all that we were created to be. Diving to Town I was following a slow driver into...
Anxiety and Responsibility
Last week, I wrote about control and responsibility. Obviously, I do have some responsibility toward other people. I really can’t just throw up my hands and leave everyone to their own devices. That’s no more helpful than trying to control everyone. Flip sides of the coin, you know? But I realized that my sense...