#493 – What part of your resume is really you?Adapting to marketplace expectations is the easiest way to closet who you really are. But it’s necessary to survive in this world, you may argue.To support my son's case transfer to Oregon, I'm looki...

#492 – Who would you be if the world didn't shape you?How much of your Self is molded by external forces and how much is it truly you? And can you even tell the two apart?Looking for full-time work to support my son's case transfer has me sorting thr...

#491 – What are your ghosts trying to keep you from?Learning curves are often winding, swerving, with deep troughs after high peaks. I know it, and yet, I didn't recognize it when it happened.First it was the Ghost of Time Indifference who, very rati...

#490 – What else stops you from asking questions?There's a saying in Spain: "he who asks ends up sweeping." That's one reason we avoid asking, so we don't end up tasked with a chore we didn't want to do.But there's another strong reason not to ask: w...

#489 – What do your questions say about yourself?We all love to talk about ourselves. Being asked questions makes us feel interesting––the curiosity we spark!Yes: asking questions brings you closer to people. A study showed that people paired up to c...

#488 – What keeps you from taking the leap?Some decisions are hard, not because they require deep thinking or complex calculations, but because we fear getting stuck with the "wrong" outcome.That's what my family and I are facing right now––and what'...

#487 – How does meditation help you access your natural creativity?Which sounds more like you: sweeping only when the floor looks dirty, or every day, so that it's always clean?For a couple of days I'd been half-assing or skipping my meditation sessi...

$486 – How I turned *the* dreaded conversation into a collaborative, amicable chatDreading the difficult conversation happens to the best of us. Even I, after writing about how to overcome the dread, did.I know I wrote that if you stay open to w...

#485 – How does writing train you in presence?Living inside yourself as a writer isn't always easy: it's full transparency, TMI around the clock, with things you'd rather not see.Yesterday I got a rejection email: my application was “deemed less comp...

#484 – Why write, or how does writing serve you?Many people today outsource their writing to AI––to their own peril. In August of 2003, during a weeklong course, Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes confessed that he wrote to "capture the smiles...