You know how these fitness / nutrition know-it-all types tell you that you must drink water all the time, and that if you feel thirsty, you are actually already dehydrated?
Well, they’re right.
The good news is that you can quickly reach for some water, and soon be on your way to a balanced, hydrated state.
What about when it is your brain that is bone-dry?  What is your brain-thirst signal? Is there even one?
Cosily ensconced in our comfort zone, easily solving the same recurring problems, but creating just enough drama around it …

Growing up, my mother continually re-inforced that I could be  anything I wanted to be.  Absolutely anything.  Armed with this certainty that only parents know how to infuse, and the natural defiance many first-borns tend to develop, I happily experimented  in the years preceding university, searching for my “calling”.
Safe in the knowledge that I could be anything, I confidently offered up my opinions to anyone who would listen and aspired to solve the world’s biggest and most complex problems.  I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was slowly …

Much of how we behave is obviously influenced by what we think of ourselves.  Not so much in terms of our skills, likes or dislikes, but more like how we see ourselves.  As our own most critical judge, we label and categorize ourselves even as we proclaim how wrong it is to stereotype people.
“I’m not really an exercise person”, we might say, or “I have two left feet”, or in my case, “I kill all plants I come into contact with”.  Once we have labelled ourselves, it is becomes extremely …