Tiny Bites of Wagaliciousness

Perhaps you’ve heard the adage “you are the sum total of the 5 people you surround yourself with.” Motivational speaker Jim Rohn had a keynote speech that taught that message as a key to personal and professional...

Is there a part of your life where you feel stuck? Maybe your career isn’t growing the way you’d hoped, maybe your relationship is feeling a bit stale, and maybe you keep meaning to lose weight or get more exercise or...

Do you feel courageous? And did you just laugh out loud at the idea of that? It’s OK – many of us would. Think about your daily life – you get up, take care of yourself, maybe some other people and a pet or two, and...

Do you lose arguments? Good for you! Do you avoid arguments because you always lose? Even better for you! It often feels like the loudest person or the one willing to continue arguing is the person who “wins” and can...

Do you find yourself in the same sorts of not-optimal situations time and time again? Maybe you tend to date the same kind of person, or maybe you say “yes” to another volunteer project when you really want to say...

Have you ever tried to teach a puppy not to nip and bite at your hands? Using their mouths is how puppies play with their littermates, so it naturally translates to mouthing their new human littermate – you! Those...

Think about the people you work with, especially those who are senior to you. Do you feel free to voice a different opinion, or suggest a different solution to a problem? There are a lot of managers who are “my way or...

The hardest person in the world for you to love is you. Growing up, you internalized what you did wrong, what others said about you or to you about your wrongness, and you let those opinions shape how you feel about...

The idea of change often challenges beliefs we hold, and we don’t like to have our beliefs challenged. Think about a belief you’ve had for a long time – maybe it’s something common like “money doesn’t grow on trees.”...

Trust yourself. Trust your instincts, your intuition, your gut…whatever you call it, trust yourself. Learn to feel the tingle on the back of your neck that tells you something could be wrong. Learn to be quite for a...

Does it feel like time is zooming by? Where is it going and why is it in such a hurry to get there? There’s a time-travel portal in your brain that allows you to go back to the past and fast-forward into what you...

Nothing is forever. Nothing. Does that make you sad? I hope not because when I say “nothing is forever” I mean the not-optimal things as well as the good ones. When you plant a rosebush, you’ll get roses. You won’t...