I was hanging with another self-employed coach/ writer / speaker friend this past week and we were both having a horrible no-good very bad day. You know, one of those days in which you wonder, “What is it I do?” And you bemoan not becoming a nuclear physicist because at least they know how to [...]

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What if I wrote a book about Freedom from Self-Improvement? After talking to Keri Smith last week – every month I invite a wise person to have a conversation with us at the Comfort Cafe – I started to dream of a Keri-style book about getting free from this insidious idea there is something to [...]

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A sometimes Wednesday happening in which I dissolve posting flummoxia by posting a a jambalaya, a comfort basket, a wiry fankle (a Scottish word that means a tangle or a state of confusion), a bit of this and tad of that. As you probably know, Freedom from Self-Improvement was last week and I humbly submit it was as blustery [...]

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Wow, what a wonderful week. What fun to see the freedom created by remembering we don’t have to improve ourselves to be. We are. I found myself feeling like I was on retreat all week. I’d stop and ask myself, “Why this feeling?” Then I’d remember Freedom from Self-Improvement, and that I don’t have to [...]

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