Everybody fails, but some people seem to go on to achieve great things. As if the failure didn’t affect them at all, or maybe that it had somehow made them stronger. Others, seem to get flattened by their failures. They become more cautious and less confident as time goes on. They settle in for average, […]
I lost. I am a loser. Those statements seem to go together. If you lost you are a loser right? They may seem similar, but those statements have very different consequences when deeply believed. One is a description of our performance, the other is a statement about who we are. I’ve become hopelessly addicted to […]
We’ve all had them. Some have done more damage than others, but all bad relationships leave their mark. I recently heard someone talk about how a relationship that had just ended “had destroyed them”. It’s a common comment, and one that many of us have felt to be true. While we are never the same […]