Self-Reflection
Building Your Identity Using Possible Selves
Ok, the purpose of this site is to help people build their identities. On the one hand it sounds simple. Identity building involves figuring out who you are, where you want to go or who you want to become and how you are going to get there. But, you may well want to ask, how…
Narrating Yourself Through the Hole in the Black Everything Bagel
There is a lot of psychology in movies, but I have not blogged about it much because a lot of the time talking about the psychological minutia in a film often comes across as a nerdy or picky over-focus that takes the drama, fun, or sometimes the horror out of the film. It is not…
Career Planning – Lean Into the Unknown
Some of the most challenging parts of career planning involve facing uncertainties and unknowns. Many of these simply involve things we do not know yet like which organizations will be hiring, what will they want to know about us and which of our skills and experiences we should highlight in our applications and inquiries. However,…
Your Post Pandemic Life Direction Choices: Happiness, Meaningfulness, or Experiential Richness (or some of each)?
There is a powerful sense (if you pause quietly and look for it) that we are all very close to getting a “normal life” restart opportunity. While we will have to wait a bit for the Delta variant to rage, we will be able to get back to things again soon. We could simply breathe…
Smartphones, Social Media and Loneliness
What comes to mind when you read or hear a statement that starts with the words “young people these days….”? There has been a lot of press over the research finding that young people (born around 1995) are expressing and experiencing significantly higher levels of stress, anxiety and loneliness even when compared to the generation…