Recalibrate Reflections
Insights for Authentic Living
The Hidden Cost of Compartmentalization: Why Fragmentation Keeps Us from Wholeness
We do it without thinking. A difficult conversation with a colleague gets tucked away before we walk through our front door. A childhood hurt gets filed in a mental drawer we promise ourselves we’ll never open. An uncomfortable truth about ourselves gets relegated to a corner of our psyche where
The Three Questions that Help me Slow Down
I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I’m caught up in the day-to-day, I can feel rushed and like I need to respond to things like emails, invitations, and text messages immediately. It’s like they are part of a mental “to-do” list and the quicker I can check them
When “I’m Fine” Really Means “I’m Not Fine”
I’m fine. It’s fine. Everything’s fine. Sound familiar? We usually say these three short sentences when we’re anything but fine. We pretend everything is good and we are unaffected when in fact everything isn’t fine and we are indeed affected. Sometimes we don’t know we are affected. In these times,
The Poetic Principle: You Are What You Consume
I was recently watching David Blaine’s show Do Not Attempt, where he travels the world in search of people doing extraordinary things – pushing their minds and bodies beyond their perceived limitations. Watching this, I started thinking about how I’ve allowed my own perceived limitations to stop me. In that
Enough: Breaking Free from the Competition Trap
When I was growing up, the school I attended used to have Field Days once a year. These were some of my most favorite days. In the morning there would be sports competitions amongst the various grades, things like the high jump (a personal favorite), the long jump and shuttle
The Simultaneity Principle: How Your Questions Change You in Real-Time
What made you smile this week? Can you tell me about a time you felt strong and healthy? When I think of the answers to these two questions, I am immediately put in a good mood. I feel positive and I think about what is possible, even if I’m having
The Anticipatory Principle: Creating Your Future, Not Just Responding to It
In 1929, widespread rumors circulated that banks were unstable. This caused people to withdraw their money and keep it in their homes instead. The panic and the mass withdrawals actually caused the banks to collapse, and the Great Depression was officially underway. In 2020, there was fear that there would
Are You a Collector? The Things We Carry That Don’t Belong to Us
When I was a kid, I collected weird things. First were stickers. Any type of stickers. Holographic. Fuzzy. Big. Small. I would trade them with friends at school. I would lay them out on my bed and look at them and think about the ones I wanted. I also collected
The Three Musts Holding You Back From Your Authentic Self
Life feels perfect on paper. The career milestones achieved. The carefully constructed path followed. Yet something profound is missing – a disconnection from who you truly are beneath the layers of conditioning and expectations. This gap between external success and internal fulfillment isn’t random. According to Albert Ellis, the pioneering
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