Karen Salmansohn @ notsalmon.com share this:

I believe whoever has the most energy wins.  You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self.

If you feel exhausted, depleted, worn out, frazzled…it won’t even matter how brilliant, talented, kind, funny, loving or loveable you are! After all, you’ll be too tired to be these things.

You need to have energy to be at your sparkling best.” Full story at: “Seize every other day” or “seize once a month” won’t get you as far as “seize the day”.

Chela Davison writes:

I totally thought I was being hilarious. Turns out I was being an asshole. It’s a very strange experience when you realize that the You that’s in your head is not the same You that’s being experienced by others.

While it’s not a major theme in my life, I have, on occasion, received feedback from those who are close to me that I can be flippant and insensitive, that my humor can be cutting and people end up hurt. This hasn’t happened in a long time, but then suddenly it was EVERYWHERE. I wrote more apology emails two weeks ago than I have in the past several years.

I’m identified as being great with people. Because mostly I am. I pay attention, I listen, I care, I’m sensitive to the subtle cues of others and can feel what’s happening for people quite deeply.

But that’s when our own shadow can sneak up and take a chomp out of our asses isn’t it!? When we start to see ourselves in a particular way, good or bad, and become fixated on that image of ourselves, we stop being able to clearly see the parts of ourselves that aren’t that.” Full story at: Owning What A Jerk I Can Be = Liberation!.

Looking at her picture, it doesn’t seem like Chela could ever be a jerk, but I can relate. I call myself a ‘recovering assaholic’ — I can go from zero to Incredible Hulk in 60 seconds. Like Bruce Banner, I have to keep my anger in check all the time while I work on the root cause. Posts like this give me insight and hope…