#thinking better

Penny, for your thoughts? They are worth much more than that. Each moment we are inundated with a million thoughts from our mind. It isn’t easy to shut off the flowing river of mental messages that we are exclusively experiencing in our heads. We can have all types of thoughts, positive, negative, and neutral, and the ones that we decide to focus on will create our reality and our feelings about…

Have a theory, find evidence for it and the difference between listening for and to. One thing I’m definitely guilty of is confirmation bias – where I look for evidence to back up what I believe so I feel reassured. Feeling right about my opinion is great. I love feeling right. When I can rhyme off evidence to back my opinion up, it feels good. Convincing myself I need that new pair of…

I am rapidly approaching that “elderly” birthday, the one that can no longer be kindly categorized as late middle age. For the most part, I don’t notice a difference, but there are some interesting dichotomies. My memory is slowing down, especially when it comes to short-term memory, and I am a bit slower in thought, but on the other hand, I think that I think better, if that makes sense. I’m…