We Are Enough

Not long ago a client strug­gling with his con­di­tion­ing asked a telling ques­tion: “If I can’t be sure that the mes­sages I’m send­ing myself are true, how on earth can I trust my own judg­ment?” The con­di­tion­ing he bat­tled had to do with his con­stant wor­ries that he was mak­ing too many mis­takes in his […]

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January 4, 2023 – 2:31 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Choices, Consciousness, Fate and Destiny, Journey of Unlearning, Self-Knowledge, Trust | Comments (2)

On Saying What You Mean

Some­times when a per­son becomes ill, their skin becomes sen­si­tive. Mere­ly brush­ing the hair on an arm becomes painful. Some­thing like that seems to be hap­pen­ing in orga­ni­za­tions right now., sen­si­tive skin being a metaphor for a painful hes­i­ta­tion to talk in a mean­ing­ful way to oth­ers.  Will keeps his video feed off on almost […]

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October 21, 2022 – 6:32 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Healing, Self-Knowledge | Comments (4)

Are you intrinsically motivated? Really?

It’s easy to think you are, but your behav­ior might tell a dif­fer­ent sto­ry. For exam­ple, if you find your­self work­ing 24/7. It could be that you love your work, that you feel you are mak­ing a con­tri­bu­tion to some­thing big­ger than your­self and that at the core you are help­ing oth­ers with­out ask­ing for […]

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September 26, 2022 – 4:08 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Love, Motivation, Organizational Culture, Radiance | Comments (4)

Breaking Society

Jared Kush­n­er, Trump’s son-in-law, recent­ly wrote a book called, “Break­ing His­to­ry.” It’s received poor reviews. How­ev­er, I do like the idea behind the title and have stolen it to name this post, “Break­ing Soci­ety” because that is the actu­al con­text for his book, a soci­ety in dan­ger through polar­iza­tion and mis­trust. Although that might seem […]

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September 6, 2022 – 3:32 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Changing the World, Conflict, Self-Knowledge, Wounds | Comments (3)