by Rahti | Jan 4, 2024 | blog, inspirational, lifecoach
Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up and feel as though you’ve been shot out of a cannon instead of like a car with a dead battery? As I get older, the latter seems to be more often the case, but I refuse to give in to the physical inertia that age induces that...
by Rahti | Dec 20, 2023 | blog, inspirational, lifecoach
Purpose will not find you. Sorry. Shakespeare said: To Be…or not to be. I say that’s a rhetorical question. You’re here. All you can do if you’re going to feel alive is to be… Sometimes it will come screaming in your face as in ‘the building’s on fire! Get...
by Rahti | Dec 13, 2023 | blog, inspirational, lifecoach
How do you generate joy in your life? Positive emotion can indeed be generated. That’s because negative emotions can be consciously supplanted by positive ones. Today I want to talk about creating joy automatically, or at the very least, shifting into some...
by Rahti | Dec 6, 2023 | blog, inspirational, lifecoach
My new favorite expression is ‘it’s better to be effective than right’. Because the ‘rhetorical’ question: ‘Would you rather be right or would you rather be happy?’ infers that to be happy you must surrender your point of view or acquiesce to something you feel is...
by Rahti | Nov 22, 2023 | blog, inspirational, lifecoach
As we enter the holiday season, familial relationships are on many people’s minds. Perhaps you are upset because you won’t see someone important to you. Or because you’re dreading that you will. The sense of ‘missing out’ on the mythical experience of...
by Rahti | Nov 7, 2023 | blog, inspirational, lifecoach
In ADHD parlance, ‘masking’ is when a person tries to hide their ADHD symptoms to blend in with the crowd and protect themselves from judgment. My memory is vague, but I remember hearing Marlon Brando in an interview talking about how we are all actors, in the sense...
by Rahti | Nov 2, 2023 | blog, inspirational, lifecoach
People are creative whether they know it or not. Creativity is unleashed by a willingness to make or do something despite prior knowledge of how difficult it might be. That’s because when you stop fixating on your prior learning of how something ‘should’...
by Rahti | Oct 18, 2023 | blog, inspirational, lifecoach
I’m not a big believer in “I’ll do this when…” “when./then” thinking, as in “when I do/get this, then I’ll…” When/then thinking is a great way to stay miserable now. It is a form of perfectionist-driven procrastination. And it is not to be...
by Rahti | Oct 11, 2023 | blog, inspirational, lifecoach
Awareness of the stigma around mental health is vital to removing it. My policy is to combat ageism by being ‘out’ about my age. I’m 65. Similarly, I am ‘out’ about my mental health condition, which for medical convenience has the label ‘Bi-Polar 2’. ...
by Rahti | Oct 4, 2023 | blog, inspirational, lifecoach
Diane O’Reily writes in Psychology Today: “As it turns out, creativity is more than a perk; it is a requirement. To be healthy and productive, you must carve out time to pursue your creative passions…….. suppressing your wild ideas may actually be sabotaging your best...
