Carolina Perez Sanz
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#125 – What can you not handle in life?
The key to handling life isn’t to change what it is; the key is to learn…
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#124 – Are you up for a challenge?
I started to learn about the sneaky ways we attack ourselves in May of 2020, when…
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#123 – Can you embrace life wholeheartedly even when it sucks?
Yesterday, someone praised me for the way I’m “compartmentalizing” during the difficult times my family and…
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#122 – Who takes the heat when we curse?
Last Friday morning, still dark outside, I was riding my bike back home from Muscle Beach…
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#121 – How do you balance living in the present with preparing for the future?
Plans can be helpful, if they don’t replace your present. Like training for a marathon: it…
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#120 – Do you ever miss what could have been?
When I decided to quit my coaching business in June*, I noticed I became nostalgic for…
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#119 – How Does the Ego Sabotage Client Relationships?
In June 2018, I had an engagement with a well-known financial institution in Lower Manhattan. My…
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#118 – Are you feeding the Ghost of Giving Our Time Away?
Do you take on projects you know will lead you nowhere but you don’t know how…
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#117 – When did you learn the most?
“That you will learn most from the situations you did not choose.” ––The Facts of Life,…
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#116 – What is courage – really?
I wanted to forgive, but I didn’t know how. So I searched. I listened to this…
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#115 – What is real courage?
Zen Buddhist Roshi Joan Halifax describes it as follows: “All too often our so-called strength comes…
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#114 – If ‘enduring’ brings you down, what’s the alternative?
I used to think (or feel, or believe) that ‘enduring’ was a great concept. In my…
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#113 – And when you don’t occupy your Personal Power?
Personal Power is intrinsic to all human beings. But some of us relinquish it at times…
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#112 – How does complete Personal Power express itself?
When you own yourself entirely, your “ghosts” have no influence over you. When your ghosts don’t…
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#111 – How will the Ghost of Need to Prove trip you up?
When we’re kids, we often feel we’re not heard – or not as much as we…
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#110 – Do you notice your minute attack thoughts?
Attack thoughts are harmful to the thinker. In fact, the target of our disdain or judgment…
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#109 – What about taking responsibility?
The antidote to the victimhood mentality and the tendency to assign blame is, apparently, to take…
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#108 – What do I need to learn?
Yesterday, I bumped into the source of our current family tragedy. The circumstances left no doubt:…
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#107 – How will letting go of resentment make you stronger?
A couple days ago, when a photo of a business coach to whom I’d paid a…
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#106 – How are physical and mental fears different (or alike)?
Fear is fear. Whether it’s a saber-tooth tiger, a calculus test, or descending an icy black…
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#105 – Is Your Life a Perfectly-Written Screenplay?
So many times we’re frustrated with life. We don’t like the cards we’re dealt, and we…
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#104 – What’s the Ego’s idea of course-correction?
When we take a big leap that results in “failure,” two instinctive response are likely to…
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#103 – Or what did you think “unfolding” was?
One day when I was 18, my father asked me to drive him to pick up…
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#102 – What did I need to see?
I wrote about my deficient relationship with endings, and then yesterday happened. What did the Universe…
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#100 – How agile are you in transitions?
The last thing I remember from my life in Lisbon is crouching on the balcony, watching…
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#101 – Testing the limits of my “wisdom”
On Monday morning, life threw a brutal curve ball at me. For the entire day, I’ve…
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#99 – How to quiet the Ghost of Missed Opportunity?
Regret is futile: it leads nowhere and only leaves you feeling sad. But what’s the alternative?…
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#98 – Why do we stand being ‘bullied’?
At an offsite dinner with a company I used to work with, my boss bullied me.…
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#97 – What interferes with your internal GPS?
On Monday, a friend who cares about making sure I’m compensated for my work offered to…
Carolina Perez Sanz 