Tag: Cath DeStefano
Human TuneUp Column by Cath
How do you define success? It’s easy enough to get caught up in society’s idea of success which involves nearly rampant materialism and money coming out of our ears. If we’re not careful, we adopt materialism and money and they become our measure of success. I suggest you don’t. Be clear, I’m not against materialism. […]
Human TuneUp Column by Cath
Retire your cape Few among us are here to do really big things with our lives. Oh yes, there are presidents of countries and companies and leaders in all varieties of professions; but for most of us, we live and work in a world with 250 people in our sphere and we don’t have much […]
Human TuneUp Column by Cath
This is it The problem is with the pronoun the. It tricks our minds into thinking there is the way to live and off we go in search of it. We read all sorts of self-help books. We check out various gurus. We un-do what our parents did. We take back some of our parents’ […]
Human TuneUp Column by Cath
In awe We, you and I, are the results of long lines of sperm meeting egg and on and on down through the generations, first uniting, and then cell by cell dividing and multiplying, until we miraculously became a self, entering through our mother’s body onto our earth and walking around, living a life. This […]
Personal TuneUp with Cath
Done done Have you experienced this? Holding on to something or someone way beyond the time when it makes any sense to hold on? Examples: staying in a relationship where there is way more pain than pleasure or staying in a job that dulls the life right out of you. Sometimes it’s simply the time […]
Personal TuneUp with Cath
The Return to Mellow I’m with you. I want things how I want them. But if I demand things to be how I want them, there’s the problem; I create my own sense of uneasiness. Here’s how this happens: ? I demand that you behave in a certain way (drive a certain way, dress a […]
Personal TuneUp by Cath
How is this going to work out?!? Excuse me while I put my Pollyanna outfit in the closet and make sure my feet are planted firmly on the ground before I begin… I know. The nerve of me, saying things will all work out (and usually for our highest good to boot). We’ve all experienced […]
Human TuneUp by Cath
5 Human Flaws You Can Live With and Still Be Just Fine Perhaps when we are younger and everything seems to be a crisis, including a broken finger nail, we are not ready to overlook our small flaws or imperfections. But as we move along life, perspective itself helps us see we can simply breathe and […]
The God of Busy
by Cath DeStefano Hello, Tim. Nice to see you again; how are you? Busy! Hi Jan, haven’t seen you for a while; how are you? Busy. Elshan! What’s been happening? Oh, I am so busy! I swear this is the new mantra for us. We have turned busy into some sort of a god. I am […]
Human TuneUp Column by Cath
Tricky, but Essential Oh, if only people in Washington would get along and get things done. Oh, if only corporate greed and habits would not be ruining our environment. Oh. if only men would quit starting wars and stop raping women. If only there were cures for such devastating diseases as cancer and Alzheimer’s. If […]
