Self-Awareness
Your emotions influence your decisions. Learning to read and regulate your emotions will help you make better choices and build better relationships.
Feedback helps you better see the reality of world around you. It allows you to correct mistakes and learn faster. Feedback gives you an opportunity to gain empathy by seeing different perspectives, and it shines a bright light on your blind spots, improving your decision-making ability. Better rela
Questions guide your attention toward a destination. Imagine you could look at a map depicting every important decision you’ve made. You would see that at every fork in the road you had faced a question. Your answer to that question determined your next step, which determined your path forward.
Look around you. Find a pen, book, or anything you can hold in your hand that will not break if you squeeze it. Pick it up. Squeeze the object as hard as you can for about five seconds. Feel the muscles in your hands and arm contract. Notice the tension in your stomach. Is your heart starting to bea
Our interpretations of the world can often be wrong due to bias, optimism, pessimism, or bad information. Yet most of us think we are right and other people are wrong. This can cause us to overlook or dismiss crucial information and lead to bad decisions.
People who struggle with victim mentality blame other people and their circumstances for their unhappiness. Blaming other people is not productive. Victim mentality robs us of our agency and power. It prevents us from taking responsibility and action to improve our situation.