Life UnleashedYou’re successful, you’re moving up, you’re on a trajectory to the corner office, but life is starting to feel routine and too damn ordinary. You’ve got it all, but it’s too easy—there’s no edge, nothing at stake, nothing to charge your system with fire...
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Should You Free Yourself From Your Golden Handcuffs? Golden handcuffs are the 21st-century equivalent of a pact with the devil or Faustian Bargain. Such pacts are common in Christian (and likely other) folklore: a person sells their soul to the devil and into eternal...
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Are You Stuck In Your Life? Four Reasons Why You Can’t Move Forward. Are you stuck in your life? Do you want your life to be different than it is but don’t know how to make that happen? Instead, you stay right where you are, stewing in your own juices. You may try to...
Getting On Your New Life Path: Increase Your Behavioral RepertoireIn the introduction to this series about getting on a new life path, I identified four obstacles that often stop us cold. The first of these is getting into gear, and the second is beating your fear....
Leaders Develop their PeopleCoach or Therapist? When you’re stuck; when you can’t break out of your rut, you might think that there is something wrong with you, something a therapist might have to tackle. But… Say I dropped you into the cockpit of a 747 sitting on the...
Life Path, Time To Change? Two Ways To Get Into GearIn my introduction to this series on changing your life path, I identified four obstacles that often stop us cold. The first of these is getting into gear. We can spend a lifetime fantasizing about a more challenging...
Changing Your Life Path: How To Beat The FearIn my introduction to this series on changing your life path, I identified four obstacles that often stop us cold. The first of these is getting into gear. The second is fear—raw, paralyzing, debilitating fear. In this...
Tired Of Feeling Trapped In Your Life? These Five Strategies Will Set You Free Feeling trapped isn’t fun. Feeling like you can’t bust out of a boring or unfulfilling job, or out of a dead relationship, or out circumstances—financial, familial, existential—that are...
You’ve tried everything to change your life path, and nothing works. Four reasons why we stay stuck.The life path you are on isn’t the one you want to be walking down. It’s boring, unfulfilling, high-stress, loveless, sexless, friendless—it’s too much of one thing and...
How To Level Up Your Life And Stop Playing SmallTo level up your life means to quit playing small and to start playing big. What is playing small? It’s not asking for a raise; it’s putting up with a job you don’t like, it’s suffering a dead relationship, it’s not...