Labels are powerful. Tell yourself you’re bad with names, and you’ll unconsciously allow yourself to forget a name as soon as you hear it. Tell yourself you’re unorganized, and your...
Labels: When Self-Perception Becomes Reality.
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Labels are powerful. Tell yourself you’re bad with names, and you’ll unconsciously allow yourself to forget a name as soon as you hear it. Tell yourself you’re unorganized, and your...
‘Just be patient, it’ll come.’My dad, to this day, whenever I get frustrated with slow progress. From a young age we are being taught that good things will come to us, as long as...
You have people who always find something to be upset about, no matter how much life has given them to be grateful for. In conversations they’ll complain about the external parties that make...
The key to crisis management is to not put the blame on the shoulders of the individuals who caused the crisis, but instead look at the system that made those individuals fail. Our flaws are...
You were on the right track, but something has happened and now you’ve been derailed from the path you set out for yourself. We’ve all been there, probably more than once. Don’t be...
All decisions are big. The seemingly small decisions you make on a daily basis, will often lead you down a path that influences the next small decision, which influences the next one, etc. Whenever...
Discipline is much like being your own parent. It’s about limiting the freedom to do as you please at any given moment, with the intent to secure better outcomes for the future self. And...
Hip hip hooray! We’re 100 blog posts in. Let’s celebrate by looking back. I reread every blog post I wrote, and selected the Wisdom For Goldfish articles I am most proud of: The SINGLE...
My phone broke down a couple of weeks ago. Instead of immediately switching my SIM card to another phone, I decided to grab the opportunity and create a little experiment for myself. I wondered what...
Everybody has fears, one person is just better in hiding them than the other. Hiding your fear for everyone else is one thing, but fear starts to become really problematic when you start hiding it...