While doing personal development work I’ve come up with a wonderful analogy. A cook turns ingredients into delicious dishes. The taste of the dishes depends on the skill of the cook, but also on the ingredients. This metaphor can be applied to relationships as well: You offer up ingredients to a relationship – for example …
“If I could just get them to open up a little more”. “They are always so distant” or “They are always all over me, can’t they leave me alone?” It seems that, if only this other person would change, the world would turn into rainbows and sunshine for you. You would magically achieve all your …
To achieve my goal I need the other person to change Read More »
Let’s say you’ve fallen in love with a particular person (or customer, or idea, or home, …). And they are not available, for whatever reason. You might despair, you might start feeling unhappy and frustrated. Focusing and doubling down on achieving “your goal”. There is an alternative to all this (frankly unnecessary) suffering: taking a …
If you can’t get what you want, take a step back Read More »
A circus consists of: animals acrobats clowns magicians and of course their acts, costumes, the circus tent, popcorn, sweet drinks, etc. did I forget anything? This is a recipe for a circus. Yesterday my family watched two documentaries about circus families and their hard lifes – always struggling to keep things going, etc. But why …
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