“Know me better, man.” Scrooge was asked to know the Ghost of Christmas Present (and to see the present) better. Last week, I asked you to know yourself better. I asked you to write out a list of the skills, talents, abilities and knowledge, supplies, people, time, space, assets… available to you now.   What were Read more

Wrestling with our past. Something most of us have to address at times in our life.  Scrooge literally ends the visitation with the Ghost of Christmas Past wrestling with what he thinks is the spirit. Your assignment last week was to think about the journey so far in its entirety.  Were you able to connect Read more

“May you be happy in the life you have chosen!” This is how we ended last week’s episode.  Reflecting on this assignment made me also think about the expression “May you live in interesting times”. The latter is credited to British statesman Joseph Chamberlain and is wrongly said to be an English translation of a Read more

Control your thoughts and you can control your emotions. Control your emotions and you can control your actions. Control your actions and you can control your destiny.  After thinking about it, how did you answer the question of what your “poverty” is? Did you reflect on this and why it is that this haunts you?  Read more

Are you able to find the joy in the small things in life? I think that really sums up last week’s assignment. I am pretty sure anyone, even a billionaire, would be really happy if they were given a new Corvette. I am glad to be the test subject if anyone wants to give me Read more

It just occurred to me, I was recalling how I missed my friend Rick, and your assignment was to think about who your Dick Wilkins is.  Coincidence? Hmm… If I try and distill what I link to Rick, it would be the joy of school, and the joy of the road.  As we got our Read more

Resonance or reminiscence? Were you able to look back and find a period where you felt you were in your stride, where things just clicked and you felt you had a purpose? Or did you look back and just reminisce about the “good old days”?   Nothing wrong with looking back and reflecting on the good Read more

Look across your life and find a piece that has both a past and a present place. That was your project last week. The focus was to look back and understand the changes between the earlier and current state. What changed, why, how did that change you, can you explain the essence of the place/event/thing Read more

Let’s get inside your head.  Your last assignment was to write a very colorful, highly detailed scenario around you displaying a selected behavior.  How often were you able to put yourself into that behavior? By the end of the week did this feel natural, or did you feel like an imposter or a poser and Read more

We are already at our second check in. Slow and steady wins the race. Rushing through this and thinking you can brute force this effort is NOT NOT NOT going to work.  Do the weekly exercise and work on staying in personal growth awareness mode as much as you can. There are a few absolutely Read more

Looking back can be hard on your psyche. We all have skeletons and ghosts that we would rather not revisit. Last week I asked you to look back and think about people, places and relationships that you left behind.   I asked that you think about opportunities or situations that made you not look your best.  Read more

Imagine that you are diagnosed today with a terminal illness and know that you were going to die in 30 days. That was last week’s introspection to help you reflect on what will you wish you have been, done, seen, experienced….how will you feel about the person you are and have been? What runs through Read more

Becoming a new and better you is not easy. If it was, you would already be the person you want to be and be living the life you want to live. Did you do the exercise for last week? Did you contemplate the goal(s) that you have set for yourself? Do you get fired up Read more

How successful were you with finding images or role models that struck a chord with you?  Have you been meditating on the image and how it feels to be the person you want to be? Are you starting to have periods where you are comfortable believing that this is who you are? You will never Read more

Who doesn’t love a good trip? Some travel food, tunes, the fun of the open road, and the anticipation of arriving at the destination.  It is not uncommon for me to make a 600+ mile day trip. I really enjoy windshield time.  As much as possible, I prefer to travel without using GPS. I will Read more

In the last paragraph of Stave I, Scrooge is locking up his room after Marley’s ghost left. In this scene we see that change has already begun. We read “Scrooge tried to say “Humbug!” but stopped at the first syllable”. Scrooge, resolute that Christmas was a Humbug, now on the same day as declaring it Read more

The stages of progressing through personal transformation that we will follow are: Recognition not only means that you are “aware” that you have to, want to, or need to change. It also means that you have to recognize that nothing happens without action which is why action is one of the steps.  Knowing is not doing. Read more

How clear and inspirational is the image that you came up with for the new you as your Week One assignment?  What ran through your head as you wrote it out? Are you hearing echoing in your head…. You need to… you should… you have to…. It is time that you…. NO, NO, NO!  This Read more

Can there be any other way to open up Episode One of a blog based on a Christmas Carol with other than Bah, Humbug! We have probably all heard someone use this expression in some way, manner or form, right?  Don’t we all understand what is meant when you say Bah, humbug? This seems to Read more