Carolina Perez Sanz
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#298 – How does the Ego cover up its fear?
The Ego fears two things: not knowing, and knowing it’s wrong. When it doesn’t know, it…
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#297 – What’s cozy about keeping an enemy list?
Clinging to our grudges seems to put us in a position of power. If I’m the…
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#296 – What part of you resists being “on hold?”
Waiting for something to happen––a process to end, your phone to ring, a lab result to…
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#295 – Is your mind a true democracy?
I don’t know of anyone, personally, who doesn’t believe democracy is the most beneficial form of…
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#294 – What has fear cost you so far?
My first paid job (after babysitting) was writing for a music magazine. Yet, I didn’t go…
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#293 – What’s the key to emotional resilience?
This morning I was feeling lonely and sad, as I wrote in my morning pages. Of…
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#292 – When do high standards turn into “sticklerism?”
Caring for quality is one thing; putting others down because we think our work is better…
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#291 – How does “emotional re-ticketing” put you back in charge?
Your emotions are created by your body. They feel like they’re imposed on you and there’s…
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#290 – When did fear make you wiser, wealthier, healthier, or happier?
If you ask me, the answer is never. Why, then, do I cling to “fear” as…
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#289 – Can you be powerful, if you’re not free?
Or, as I read in this Dear Democracy (by Katy Dalgleish) post, “Do you need freedom…
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#288 – Who benefits when Egos raise up in arms everywhere?
If personal boundaries that protect our emotional comfort are a growth blocker, physical boundaries that protect…
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#287 – What are your boundaries trying to guard?
When we take the view that “Hell is other people,” as one of the characters in…
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#286 – Can your attachment to being ‘strong’ keep you from accepting reality?
Yesterday I had surgery. A sore that’d been on my ankle for four years turned out…
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#285 – The most powerful question to ask yourself: So what?
Questioning your thoughts with “so what?” will help you understand where your emotions come from and…
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#284 – What makes you anticipate failure?
Some people will say anticipating failure is the responsible thing to do. They want to ensure…
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#283 – Who demands productivity at all costs?
If I asked you: “would you rather feel productive and exhausted or rested but unproductive” ––…
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#282 – From lack to abundance––what happens when you change your focus?
Yesterday, while doing my morning pages on the train platform, I noticed something: instead of reporting…
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#281 – Who would you be without fear?
Fear, psychologists say, is a self-protective emotion. You spot a sabertooth tiger and run like crazy…
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#280 – What’s the best use of your power?
“A great being doesn’t use their power to make the universe––inside or out––be the way they…
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#279 – Does the universe make mistakes?
If you answer ‘yes,’ then you can only hope it doesn’t when it comes to your…
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#278 – Where does your pre-emptive regret come from?
As I glanced at a recent New Yorker story, the strong indecision author Sarah Miller recounts…
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#277 – What’s the point of gratitude?
In my Yoga With Adriene session this morning, while I challenged my strength and balance with…
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#276 – What’s the point of grading your performance in life?
The concept of failure tends to bring most people down –– hence the hundreds of blog…
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#275 – What’s the point of defining “success?”
When I arrived in New York in 2014, Sheryl Sandberg’s “lean in” approach to female leadership…
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#274 – What makes you restrict happiness?
When we decide what makes us happy, we’re restricting happiness to a limited set of conditions.…
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#273 – What’s in your smile?
Years ago, while leading a negotiation workshop for women leaders at a prominent hedge fund in…
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#272 – What makes reframing so powerful?
This morning, while cleaning up after breakfast, the Spanish saying, “you start a circus and the…
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#271 – What does the Ghost of Misplaced Shame want from you?
Two or three months into his incarceration, my son told me, “I have this shame…” and…
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#270 – What part of you resists what is?
Whatever part that is, it’s a waste of time, because what is can’t be changed. So,…
Carolina Perez Sanz 