Recently, I told a distant relative about the career change I’d made, the book I just released, and a few other things I’ve been up to.  “I would have been too scared to do all that,” she said.  “You must be a pretty courageous person.”
This conversation got me thinking:  am I courageous?  If being courageous [...]

I know, I’m in a guest-posting frenzy recently, but here’s another one I just did at Urban Monk called “How To Build Confidence By Just Paying Attention.”  It’s about how just changing the way we direct our attention — whether we’re talking about what we’re aware of within ourselves, or what we’re focused on in the outside [...]

Many of us, in some way, are afraid of displeasing people.  Some of us, for instance, constantly worry that our superiors at work see us in a negative light.  Some of us fret over the possibility that our loved ones—whether they’re our families, intimate partners or friends—will abandon us.  Still others are in people-pleasing mode [...]