This website is about taking what I do in my counseling practice and bringing it out to a wider audience.
It also gives me a chance to cover topics that I only rarely get to mention for people who come to see me.
One such topic is self help for your financial future.
If you are going to [...]
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Last year in September I wrote about a 47-year old professor, Randy Pausch, and his inspirational “Last Lecture” following his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer.
If you want to know why death is such an important part of being human, then view the video on my previous post.
Back then he had wide publicity, from Good Morning America [...]
Saturday, January 26, 2008
I really appreciate all the comments I get on this blog. I read them all, and they are often worth your time reading as well.
However some of them are worth putting up as an entire post. Thanks to teqjack for pointing me to a post on the website of ‘World’s most popular blogging anesthesiologist’
that had [...]
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
In my therapy work I have pretty much given up using the word forgiveness.
Not because it is a bad idea – heck no. Forgiveness is a key self help skill for being an effective human being.
It’s just that the people who most need to use forgiveness in their lives, have also been the ones who [...]
Saturday, January 19, 2008
I think most people who run companies have no idea what is really required for the mental and spiritual well-being of their employees.
Having a J.O.B. (Just Over Broke) takes up a huge chunk of your waking life.
Sure you do it for money, but do you do it for self-actualization?
Many employees at some stage dream about [...]
In many ways this self help site is about bridging the divide between psychiatry and personal growth/self improvement.
So I watch the extremes of medical psychiatry, but I also watch the extremes of self improvement too. Tim Ferris is an example of the latter.
Tim Ferriss, author of the “4-Hour Work Week” is a really interesting guy, [...]
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Have you ever thought you were following instructions exactly as described, and then found out that you weren’t.
I just discovered that I’ve been incorrectly mixing the milk powder formula for my 1 year old daughter.
I’ve been putting in 3 scoops, when it was meant to be 33% stronger at 4 scoops. I had been adamant [...]
A University student in her early 20’s came to me for a few things including for hypnosis to stop her from procrastinating.
She was studying pharmacy and part of her being a high achiever was that she was always leaving her exam studies until the last days and cramming like mad.
She was becoming bothered by it [...]
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