What’s Wrong with Being Right?

In my relationships, my default programming also directed a lot of my thoughts and feelings in support of my being “right.” Sometimes the desire to be right makes us attempt to make the other person wrong; sometimes it makes us withdraw into ourselves, as I did when I’d back off from taking a stance to

19 Feb, 2015
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How the Mind’s Regulation of the Flow of Energy and Information Affects Relationships

Why would the healthy development of at least seven of the nine functions of the middle prefrontal cortex also be outcomes of a secure parent-child attachment? Because, as we learned from Siegel, the mind is an “embodied and relational process of regulating the flow of energy and information,” which means that our relationships are an integral

11 Dec, 2014
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How an Organization’s People Create Its Culture

Last week I wrote about how the culture of an organization—the way the organization operates day to day—can become dysfunctional and often can undermine the organization’s mandate or mission statement. This week we’re going to look more closely at how the culture of an organization is formed and how all the people involved in the

13 Nov, 2014
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Culture vs. Mandate: How a Company’s Culture Can Erode Its Mandate

In my book Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living and its predecessor, My Mind Is Not Always My Friend, I concentrate on how becoming more mindful—that is, being focused with intent in the present, experiencing the present circumstance as it TRULY is, without judgment and interpretation and, most importantly, WITHOUT AN

10 Nov, 2014
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Communicating from Separate “Virtual Realities”

Why, even in our closest relationships, do we agree on some things and disagree on others? It’s because no matter how close we are to each other, we each still live in our own SEPARATE and UNIQUE “virtual reality,” which is shaped by our own individual perceptions and interpretations of the world around us.

12 Jun, 2014
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