New Game+

So this is it. we've made it to the end. There's only one critical point left to grab on to. How do you keep that delicate balance in life so you can keep this progress and momentum, but not lose the other parts of your life? You know, those parts you actually want to keep. I'm sure you'll be unsurprised to find out it's not as easy as some people make it sound. Fortunately there are a couple key points that can help get us there. The first is a nice dose of self respect. I know we talked about that earlier, and it's never going to stop being important. This is your life you are working on here. Yours. Not your bosses, your friends, not even your families. That's not to say you should shout them all down and throw them out of you life. You're gonna be pretty lonely if you do that. But you have to remember you have the right to do it. You can, and absolutely should stand up for yourself and your goals. You just don't have to be horrible about it. Som...

Gary Larson always had a bit of a dark sense of humor. So much so that many people wrote to his editors and the publications that displayed his comics. One rather famous complaint came about a comic he wrote that made light if Jane Goodall, a famous zoologist that did some breakthrough work with gorillas in the wilds. A woman wrote a letter demanding his comic be removed immediately because Dr. Goodall was an amazing researcher who you shouldn't dare make fun of. This sparked a rather significant controversy that inevitably made it to Dr. Goodall herself. Her response? "I thought it was very funny. And I think if you make a Gary Larson cartoon, boy you’ve made it." Fast forward a couple decades and what was just another bit of that dark humor has become a rather appropriate interpretation of the food industries callous disregard for the animals it raises and slaughters. If DR. Goodall's stance still holds, then this kind of attention should carry the same kind of grav...

 It looks like we're almost done with this rebuild. Hopefully you've found something helpful, useful, or even comforting here. But for the moment it's time to get your shovel. It's fine to cave or some space. Two concepts that might seem unrelated but have a common energy area the ideas of digging in and drawing boundaries. It's all the same vibe. "This is my space." both are equally important, and for a lot of people equally difficult for various reasons. Drawing or own boundaries, for a lot of people, feels like pushing people away. Especially when the selfish people in our lives say as much. Let me assure you, it's not. Boundaries are our way of saying I will not tolerate or allow that in my life. It's that simple. The hard part comes when people we don't want to lose push on those boundaries and blame us for them. The nicest way to describe that behavior is selfish. I'll keep the more colorful words for you to fill in. Holding on to you...