Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep #033 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #033 – White-knuckles vs open hand …I once heard that "suffering begins when expectation diverges from reality." Holding onto an attachment to a *specific* outcome almost guarantees suffering. It certainly increases the chance that you'll miss the beauty and power and reward in…
Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep #032 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #032 – I won't get fooled again!My most effective form of sabotage is fooling myself. And that "skill" has two forms: fantasy and denial. Søren Kierkegaard captured the distinction perfectly: "There are two ways to be fooled. One is to BELIEVE what isn’t…
Mindset Mondays w/DTK Ep #031 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #031 – Step Up!Sometimes we are called upon to rise to the occasion, to muscle through, to put on a brave face, to suit up & show up. After all, the show must go on, right? And, hopefully, we rise to more that that….
Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep -#030 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #030 – Your inner child knows the truth.A firefighter? A doctor? An astronaut? President? What did you want to be before the world sold you the lie that anything is possible?When I was 5, I wanted to be Speed Racer! Am I foiling…
Mindset Mondays w/ DTK – Ep #029 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #029 – Be Bold … Begin!There is a dusty file cabinet in my office filled with years of amazing ideas – and there sits all of that brilliance, to this day, unexecuted.So many plans, so many ideas, so many dreams died while…
Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep #028 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #028 – It's time! But for what?It seems like a simple question: "What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"What's your answer? Move to a new city? Run a marathon? Climb a mountain? Get up on stage? Propose? Come out?…
Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep #020 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #027 – Nothing more, nothing less.In elementary school, I believed was invincible, indestructible. A few losing battles with gravity (along with a few emergency room visits) recalibrated that belief. That dose of reality left me with a personal understanding of the truism from…
Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep #026 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #026 – Stuck? Break your patterns!Albert Einstein told us "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." So why do we keep plodding down the familiar path and then marvel that we ended up at the…
Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep #025 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #025 – What a difference a day makes…William Barclay teaches us that "There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why."I had no control over the first. But I had full…
Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep #024 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #024 – I dare you!This is a lesson I've learned the hard way (and, goodness knows, I've learned it MANY times over): Facing the hard choices takes less energy than avoiding, hiding from, or delaying them. ALWAYS!Seneca gave us the lesson over 2000…
