I’m pleased to share my interview with Evan Hadkins, author of the book “Living Authentically” and the blog WellBeingAndHealth.net.  Evan is a counselor and acupuncturist in Canberra, Australia, and his book offers an approach to wellness based on a unique blend of Gestalt therapy and traditional Chinese medicine.  I think the conversation has both depth and plenty [...]

In my last post, I talked about a few of the challenges we often face when trying to fully bring our minds and hearts to listening to another person.  In this post, I’ll discuss a style of communication we can use to express our empathy with the people we listen to and deepen our connection [...]

I recently wrote a piece at The Change Blog about the basic elements of what I call “inner productivity”—the ideal mental and emotional state for peak productivity and creating our best-quality work.  In this article, I take a deeper look at the common ways of thinking that keep us from developing inner productivity, and offer [...]

 I find puffins irresistible.  When I see them (or pictures of them) my usual instinct is to hug myself and say “aww,” or coo like a newborn.
Why am I telling you this?  Because becoming able to get so much pleasure out of  funny-looking seabirds, and admit it on the Internet, was a major step in [...]

Many of us find ourselves interviewing for jobs these days, and I don’t need to tell you that interviewing isn’t high on most people’s list of favorite things to do.  This series of posts will be about successful interviewing from an “inner” perspective—addressing the thoughts and emotions you bring to a job interview, and how [...]

One of the most liberating realizations I’ve had in my life is that I’m not responsible for my ideas.  In other words, I can do very little to make myself become creative, except for keeping my mind open to receiving insights, and writing them down as they come up.  In this post, I’ll talk about [...]

(This is the third article in a series on cultivating creativity.  If you find this article helpful, you may also enjoy Part One and Part Two.)
I’ve written a few articles about stimulating your creativity by letting go of the need to be socially acceptable and fit into a conventional social role.  Today, I’m going to [...]

I wrote a piece a little while back about transcending the fear of “having nothing to say” that often plagues us when relating with people.  A similar fear, which I’ll discuss in this article, is the worry that we might not “have a comeback” when someone puts us down—that we’ll be unable to defend ourselves [...]

I recently read an interesting article in Newsweek about a study by Stanford University psychologists.  The researchers took two groups of people, put them in separate rooms, and had them fill out questionnaires as part of a supposed experiment.  In fact, however, the questionnaires had nothing to do with the actual study.
The real experiment began [...]

I recently met someone who lives the interesting life of a software engineer by day and a guitarist in a rock band by night.  His band seems to be doing well—they’re well-known in the local area, and they just recorded some songs they’re planning to shop around to record labels.  My friend, however, has been [...]