A new start I had stalled out on my to-do list.  For the past week, I was staring at the same ten items, making little progress.  I’d tried everything to motivate myself.  For example, I promised myself a tall frozen yogurt at the end of the day if I’d completed them all.  Then I’d...

 Our brains have a unique ability to use imagery as a means to remember numbers, names, facts and textbook material in long-term memory.  So, by simply visualizing something you are able to many times retain the information for a long period of time. In his book Moonwalking with Einstein,...

Moving in small steps, placing one foot in front of the other, to change gradually is old school.  The crux of it is this: Life is not linear. Underneath the slick orderly exterior, the world is an elaborate, convoluted staircase.  Space is filled with incongruities.   Straight lines are...

Loops can engulf us.  They are a series of patterns that we execute over the course of the day without thinking. We see the same people, eat the same meals, say the same things, travel the same route to work, watch the same TV, listen to the same music. There is a lot of comfort in these...

In the computer industry, there is a term for this reinvention of oneself:  it is called rebooting.  It is derived from the restarting of a computer so that new software can reloaded. Rebooting has become a personal solution. A person can reboot to survive the demise of a company, the...

For the new year, Reboot Yourself As the new year creeps into view, most of us realize that it is an opportunity to turn over a new leaf, recharge our efforts to change ourselves at a deeper level, or at least to prevent more backsliding. February is the month to reboot.  Rebooting is a...