Habits can be hard to break. Especially in midlife. Do you know how habits develop? Habits are just practiced behavior that eventually become involuntary; midlife habits can be hard to break. Whatever you practice becomes a habit. What you practice DOING becomes a habit. What you practice NOT DOING also becomes a habit. This...
Continue readingEP #118: Catching Autopilot Thinking in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Autopilot Thinking in Midlife: Why it’s so common to think and act on autopilot in midlife. Why you need to have awareness of your autopilot thinking. Why thinking on autopilot isn’t thoughtful at all. How you can learn to “catch” your autopilot thoughts and decide to think...
Continue readingEP #81: Understanding How to Commit to Change in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why wanting to change isn’t enough to actually make a change. How your personal results are caused by your thinking. Why it’s important to notice what you’re thinking. Why you can’t create change on purpose when you don’t think on purpose. How what you’re actually thinking can be...
Continue reading4 Smart Questions when you Feel Stuck at Work
Feeling stuck at work? How do you know when you’ve been at your job too long? There’s no one answer. Sometimes one week can be too long. Usually though, my clients talk about being in a job too long when they’ve been working at the same place for more than 10 years. That’s when I’ve...
Continue readingThe art of practice
When’s the last time you practiced something new? Everything in life is practice even though you may not think of it that way. You practice what you want, and you also practice what you don’t want. And what you practice becomes a habit. I’ve recently had an amazing opportunity to be in a small...
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