Do you dwell on doom? On “what if there’s an apocalypse”? My daughter told me one day she was afraid of dying and of losing us. She recently lost her grandfather. I said to her, “Well, we all die. So might as well acknowledge that death is a part of life, and that worrying about it […]
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#RPCL Log Date Aug 21, 2017 #BeingHuman #SeeYourFutureMoreClearly #SlowDown
Something is happening to this generation of Gen Xers who are burning out. Many of them are friends who are working in large companies, with high executive titles, and whose companies are undergoing restructuring. For their next career step, they don’t want to step up. They want to step down. Up requires more energy, time […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 20, 2017 #BeingHuman #OrganizeYourFuture
Are you overwhelmed with your every day? Trying to keep your head above the water line? Me, too. I need a planner. And I am not talking about the journal kind (as much as I love @moleskine). I’m taking about the human kind. Someone who can swoop in and organize my future, starting now. Your […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 15, 2017 #BeingHuman #DontLetTheAngryBugBite
It’s so hard to resist social media. Especially when we are consumed by the constant craziness of this administration. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Don’t let the angry bug bite. Do everything in your power to find your inner calm and remember, this too shall pass.
#RPCL Log Date Aug 14, 2017 #BeingHuman #BreatheDeeply #MakeEveryMomentCount
When fatigue hits, it’s like a small parasite that eventually takes over your entire faculties. I am so tired these past few days. In part because of work. In part because of stress from life, loss, money and overall trying to keep my shit together. But every day, every single day, I remind myself to […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 13, 2017 #BeingHuman #ExperiencingClosureFully
The other day I was getting waxed (yes, that’s a very human thing to do) and my aesthetician was asking if I got the closure I needed at a recent memorial. Truthfully, I haven’t. I told her that, I’m only now realizing why. I haven’t actually made time to mourn. And maybe that’s why I […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 12, 2017 #BeingHuman #BeImportant
So, maybe you don’t have fame and fortune. Maybe you feel like you are in the Beatle’s lyrics: He’s a real nowhere man Sitting in his nowhere land Making all his nowhere plans for nobody Doesn’t have a point of view Knows not where he’s going to Isn’t he a bit like you and me? Nowhere […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 10, 2017 #BeingHuman #expressyourfeelingsproductively #selfmanageemotions
Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Take time to express your feelings in a productive way. Is it gratitude? Love? Self-doubt? Fear? The more we can self-manage our emotions, the more we can evolve as human beings. Love, hate, anger, jealousy, fear… all human. But why turn someone else’s perfectly good day in a […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 8, 2017 #BeingHuman #ChangeYourEnergyWithin
Sometimes my youngest says the darnedest things. From telling me one day to “get my own bloomin’ coffee” when I asked her dad to make me one, to waking up and telling me that her hair looks brushed but it hasn’t been, it just looks that way. I have no idea where she gets her […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 7, 2017 #BeingHuman #embraceyourimperfectlyperfectself #imperfectlyperfect
My friend and I were sitting outside late one evening while reminiscing about Suzy. She said her pledge to herself is to become more mindful. She has realized through the 40’s decade of her life that she just doesn’t want to keep up the work pace of her 30’s. As she reflected on why, she […]
