Hope is often treated as a catalyst. and a protectant. If you can imagine a better future, you’ll feel energy and safety to move toward it. If you can picture the outcome clearly, motivation will follow. If you stay focused and believe in what you want, you’ll find the pathways and agency you need. For...Read More
Many school behaviors that look like defiance, carelessness, or lack of motivation are actually intelligent responses to overload. Read on to understand why, and learn how parents can support students in the right order. School Today Requires Constant Layers of STOP–SWITCH–START In the same school—or even the same class—teachers often: Use different platforms for teaching,...Read More
Confidence is often treated as a prerequisite for action. If you believe in yourself, you’ll take the risk. If you trust your abilities, you’ll move forward. If you doubt yourself less, things will get easier. For many people, that logic has been true at key moments in their lives. Confidence has helped them speak up,...Read More
InTensions™ are impossible binds where both poles are necessary but mutually exclusive. When people experience these, standard interventions often fail because the problem isn’t lack of knowledge, insight, or motivation – it’s being caught in a psychological architecture where both staying and leaving, both persisting and stopping, both knowing and can feel impossible at the...Read More
Most capable people have learned that persistence is a strength. You stayed with hard things. You didn’t quit at the first sign of difficulty. You pushed through uncertainty before and it worked. Often, that capacity is part of how you became competent, reliable, or successful in the first place. So when something important feels stalled,...Read More
Many people I work with know exactly what their next step should be. They can describe it clearly. They’ve thought it through. They may even have done similar things successfully in the past. And yet, starting feels strangely difficult, and they resist. This moment is often misdiagnosed as procrastination, a lack of motivation, or avoidance....Read More
