by Molly Gordon | Nov 3, 2016 | Confidence, Emotional intelligence, Fear, Resilience, Video, Wisdom
Confusion happens when we obsess about what we can’t see and miss the fact that we can always see just enough for right...
by Molly Gordon | Oct 6, 2016 | Ambition, Confidence, Goal Setting, Success, Video, Wellbeing
I once heard in a 12 Step meeting, “I’ve been around these rooms for 35 years. The bad news is that every five years I got a new set of problems. The good news is that they were always higher quality problems.” There’s a lot of truth in this....
by Molly Gordon | Aug 12, 2016 | Choice, Confidence, Emotional intelligence, Three Principles, Video, Wisdom
When we try to impose high-mindedness on our decisions, we may inadvertently find ourselves invested in being right and in getting “good” results. When we make decisions instead from a quiet place, we tend to be less invested in being right. We decide with...
by Molly Gordon | Apr 8, 2016 | Confidence, Emotional intelligence, Freedom, Resilience, Video, Wellbeing
Last week I introduced the notion of weaponized insights. I said that a weaponized insight is no longer operating as an insight, because as soon as it is twisted into a comment on your wholeness, value, or deservingness, it is not longer insightful. There’s...
by Molly Gordon | Apr 5, 2016 | Ambition, Authenticity, Choice, Community, Confidence, Consciousness, Flow, Freedom, Happiness, Life purpose, Meaning, Mind, Mindfulness, Productivity, Responsibility, Self care, Self-employment, Small business, Success, Uncategorized, Vision, Wellbeing, Wisdom
The problem of weaponized insight A participant in the Come Alive and Do the Thing! Mastermind has a brilliant term for the use of a supposedly wise observation to critique or diminish another person: weaponized insight. Don’t you love it? At first it was...
by Molly Gordon | Apr 1, 2016 | Confidence, Emotional intelligence, Self care, Video, Wellbeing, Wisdom
A participant in the Come Alive and Do the Thing! group came up with a terrific term for insights that people offer you (of that you offer yourself) that are wrapped in the message that there is something wrong with you. She calls them weaponized insights. And...
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