• It’s no fun being addicted to approval

    I used to want everyone to like me. And I wanted everyone around me to be happy. More to the point, I was driven to be accepted, to be approved of, to be liked. To be considered a nice person. It wasn’t a pretty picture. Addicted to approval I said yes to client requests that […]

  • Time is not the enemy. Priorities are the problem.

    I used to live a time-starved life. My days were endlessly structured around time–and there was never enough of it. Time was the enemy. I approached time from a place of lack and martyrdom, uttering daily: I never have enough time. There’s not enough time. I perpetuated the habit of being up against time by repeatedly […]