Do you feel weird or just different from others at home, at school, at work or in life in general? Are your parents from somewhere else and they don’t feel very culturally adaptive within your city or town? My mom is from Asia and I remember growing up thinking that everyone had parents that spoke […]
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#RPCL Log Date March 28, 2017: #BeingHuman #Don’tHate
When I catch myself saying I hate something, I have to stop and think why hate it. I’m modeling behavior that my kids are picking up fast. Too fast. And language matters. So your mission, if you choose to accept it: Don’t hate. Maybe dislike for a while, but hate takes up too much energy. […]
#RPCL Log Date March 27, 2017: #BeingHuman #BlameGame
My youngest daughter loves to blame everyone else for something that didn’t go her way. “It’s your fault, mommy”, she tells me. As parents, we believe she will grow out of it until… at some level we realize we all still like to assign blame. When we are truly unhappy at work, we blame our […]
#RPCL Log Date March 26, 2017: #BeingHuman #BeingStressed #DarkSide
Do you find when you are stressed that your mood can turn dark quickly? Imagine a stressed and angry Luke Skywalker. What would have happened if he let his anger take control over his emotions? It’s sort of the EQ (Emotional Quotient) question. Do you lash out in anger or do you count to ten in […]
#RPCL Log Date March 25, 2017: #BeingHuman #RemovingLabels
We have a problem with labels in society and within our culture in general. It becomes helpful when we help children assign words and meaning to their emotions so they can better articulate what and how they are feeling. It becomes a hindrance when we assign too much meaning to a word at the expense of […]
#RPCL Log Date March 24, 2017: #BeingHuman #OneLevel #ManyLevels
For some reason, humans believe that we need to measure one type of intelligence in schools – IQ. Sure there are social emotional components in K-12, but EQ doesn’t rank as high. Test scores are fairly one-dimensional when it comes to rote memorization. In fact, we don’t have enough critical thinking and creativity in positions […]
#RPCL Log Date March 23, 2017: #BeingHuman #HatredBasedLeadership
Love-based leadership was a thing before this past election, when people were seeing that fear-based leadership was not effective at achieving healthy cultures in companies. Now I think about two things: The hatred of leadership and The leadership of hate. First of all, hatred of leadership is when we love to hate our bosses or company […]
#RPCL Log Date March 22, 2017: #BeingHuman #DoWhatYouLove
Do you go into an office everyday for work? How much do you love it? Really love it? If the answer is that you love it like oxygen, then you are in the right place. But if it’s not, then why not? I realize we don’t all have the freedom of choice. Sometimes we just need the work. […]
#RPCL Log Date March 21, 2017: #BeingHuman #FramingSuccess
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I would frame my success and failures to my daughters as I impart the wisdom of the world on them during their development. I feel more stressed than I had ever imagined I would for my daughters, when I identify myself as a fairly successful yet still highly stressed female […]
#RPCL Log Date March 20, 2017: #BeingHuman #JourneyToSelfCare
It can be so easy to just live in the moment and eat girl scout cookies all day long. Not that I’ve done that this week. With so much talk about mindfulness, why not just live in a chocolate thin mint euphoria and deal with the suffering later? We all have emotional baggage to unpack. And it’s hard […]
