Tag: subconscious resistance
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Getting to the Top
I’m writing to you from an elevation of about 7,500 feet. Right now, I’m on tour in Montana with The Crossing, and every morning, I have gotten up and gone for a walk. A walk in Montana is actually a hike, especially where we are staying. There are lots of hiking trails around here and…
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The Power of No
I’ve always had a hard time saying no. Call it social conditioning, the patriarchy, people-pleasing, what-have-you… all I can say is that when someone asks me to do something, my knee-jerk reaction is to say yes. Whether or not I actually want to do it. At the beginning of my career, the ability to say…
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Otis the Escalator
One of my earliest (and scariest) memories involved a crowd, a monster, and unrelenting forward progression. There we were, in the middle of a Macy’s on a busy afternoon, and my dad was teaching me how to ride the escalator. It wasn’t going well. At all. Until this moment, every time the two of us…