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 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...
by Molly Gordon | Feb 19, 2016 | Choice, Emotional intelligence, Freedom, Responsibility, Video, Wisdom
Responsibility is response-ability. It is a gift, the ability to express our life force in choices and action in the world. When we pressure ourselves with self-criticism or blame, we may try to get out from under the pressure by dodging responsibility. It never...
by Molly Gordon | Feb 5, 2016 | Choice, Consciousness, Freedom, Happiness, Video, Wisdom
The theme of choice continues in this reflection on the difference in how we experience choice depending on whether we are regarding it as a test or an expression of our human capacity. I riff on Mary Oliver’s well-known line, “What is it you plan to do...
by Molly Gordon | Jan 29, 2016 | Choice, Creativity, Freedom, Thought, Video
A choice between two things is not a choice; it’s a dilemma. Instead of setting up your cognitive filters to sort things into binary options, what if you changed your agenda from making the right choice or the best choice to discovering how to generate choices...
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