April 14, 2016

Eight ways you surrender the power of choice

“Choosing is deceptively simple,” writes Robert Fritz, author of The Path of Least Resistance, “yet it takes practice to do it correctly.” That’s because, if we’re not careful, we may unwittingly surrender our power of choice. In this week’s ...

March 24, 2016

So you had a bad day…. [podcast]

It might be today. It might be tomorrow. Stack up enough days and you’re bound to have a bad one. That’s when expectations, usually hidden from sight, come crashing down. How do you keep a bad day from getting ...

March 10, 2016

Five blind spots that can derail you [podcast]

Your most important decisions are flawed. Blind spots or biases affect us all—especially if we don’t guard ourself against them. In this week’s episode of the Reinventure Me podcast, my co-host Armin Assadi and examine Five blind spots that can derail ...

February 25, 2016

Are you a renaissance soul? [podcast]

You’re a person of many interests. So many, in fact, you may feel out of place—like something’s wrong with you. It may be instead that you’re a renaissance soul. In this week’s episode of the Reinventure Me podcast, my ...

February 11, 2016

The self-talk survival guide [podcast]

Soren Kierkegaard once wrote, “Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.” That observation should be concerning, given that researchers have found the vast majority of our self-talk is negative. In this week’s episode of the Reinventure ...

January 21, 2016

The wound you didn’t want can be the gift the world needs [podcast]

We can’t get through life without some kind of wound, especially from those we love. But that very wound can be source of inspiration to give the gift the world needs—your compassion and comfort. In this week’s episode of ...

January 7, 2016

How to rebound from discouragement [podcast]

Happy doesn’t always arrive with a new year. In fact, it’s not unusual to find yourself discouraged even as you sing Auld Lang Syne to 2015. In this week’s episode of the Reinventure Me podcast, my co-host Armin Assadi ...

October 30, 2015

Do you own your work or does it own you? Three tests to know for sure.

You’re engaged in work. Happily or perhaps less so. Either way there’s a question that’s worth asking yourself, Do I own my work, or does it own me? A number of years ago I got a call from a ...

October 22, 2015

How to rise above any circumstance [podcast]

All of us have constraints—those circumstances that frustrate or worry us. Mostly, they limit our choices. That can actually be a good thing, until we perceive we have no choices left, except to react to them. In this week’s ...

October 8, 2015

How to handle toxic people [podcast]

Toxic people. It seems they set out to leave you and others in their path worse than they found you. How can you handle toxic people in a healthy way? In this week’s episode of the Reinventure Me podcast, ...

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