The Perfectionism Trap
I remember when I was about 7 or 8 years old, I was playing catch with a Nerf football with my dad in the front yard. We were tossing the
February 21, 2023
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Hi! Welcome to my blog. I’ll post here weekly thoughts on the 5 Pillars of a Success Mindset: grounded confidence, growth mindset, commitment, stress management, and personal responsibility. Looking forward to having you join me!
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Hi! Welcome to my blog. I’ll post here weekly thoughts on the 5 Pillars of a Success Mindset: grounded confidence, growth mindset, commitment, stress management, and personal responsibility. Looking forward to having you join me!
I remember when I was about 7 or 8 years old, I was playing catch with a Nerf football with my dad in the front yard. We were tossing the
One of the nuggets of recovery wisdom that gets shared a lot is “Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides.” The first few times (hell, probably the first few
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(SPOILER ALERT: There is no one simple trick for more self-confidence. Just repeated work. Usually hard work, repeated over and over. Usually a variety of different kinds of work. If
I know — Thanksgiving was months ago. Why am I talking about the intentional practice of gratitude now? Can’t I even read a calendar? 🤣 I’m talking about gratitude now
Like many of you, my LinkedIn feed has been filled with posts from recently laid-off ex-Google employees for the past few weeks. And, of course, Google’s not the only company
(SPOILER ALERT: There is no one simple trick for more self-confidence. Just repeated work. Usually hard work, repeated over and over. Usually a variety of different kinds of work. If
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I’ve been going to the gym 4-5 times/week for most of the past 25 years. Every year about this time, for a couple of months, the gym starts getting more
In the recovery community, we talk about “expectations” a lot. These are those times when we believe that someone else (or something else — a company, an organization, society) should
One of the things that has always been the hardest for me to deal with is the feeling that I “have to” do something. If I feel that I have