A few weeks ago, I watched a short video of the jazz musician Herbie Hancock telling a story about Miles Davis. I paraphrase: “Right in the middle of Miles’ solo, when he was playing one of his amazing solos, I played the wrong chord, completely wrong. It sounded like a big mistake. And Miles paused […]
After making a date with your hot buttons, meeting your colleagues for a hot button happy hour party, launching a hot button contest in your organization, and doing a three-day hot button cleansing, here is a final suggestion to help you creatively manage hot buttons and temporarily close the chapter on this subject! THANK you for bearing with me for so […]
I’m relentlessly – or desperately- pursuing creative ways to manage our emotional, undesirable and ineffective reactions. After making a date with your hot buttons, meeting your colleagues for a hot button happy hour party, and launching a hot button contest in your organization, I’m proposing this week a three-day hot button cleansing! It’s very easy to […]
Dear Friends, As promised, I will close my Hot Button Mastery series SOON. However, I still have a few indispensable ideas to share about creatively managing our hot buttons. So after Making a date with your hot buttons, and Meeting your colleagues for a Hot Button Happy Hour Party, here is another seasonal suggestion to enjoy learning about our ineffective […]
After Making a date with your hot buttons, here is another creative idea to creatively manage your ineffective emotional reactions!
In part 8, I promised that we would learn to turn dirt into gold thanks to studying our hot buttons. Since then, without a doubt, we’ve been able to get closer to who we really are. We identified the formative stories that shaped our personality, and excavated the common denominator to ALL the problems in […]
In the beginning, there is vastness and pure energy. It is unlimited and unconditional. It is whole, swift and fluid. There is no body, no time, and no worry. The universe is the heartbeat. Until the big blackout. I am incarnated, thirsty, hungry, cold and sleepy. A receptor, breathing in and breathing out, I am […]
Managing and transforming our hot buttons is a slow process and requires an old-fashioned virtue: patience. A way to alleviate the discomfort of enduring the path is to understand what neuroscience has to tell us about the subject. It has A LOT to say, since the brain is the headquarters of our hot buttons. I […]
I recently posted this blog on LinkedIn about responsibly venting at work. It was the fruit of a few experiences working with teams and small organizations, as well as venting memories with my colleagues. I thought I would share this article on my personal blog too, since I believe it could be the starting point of some useful conversations […]
Before delivering crucial material about mastering our hot buttons, I’d like to recap the critical steps we covered together so far (you can skip this part and go directly to paragraph III, but I warn you that you will miss some witty new insights): I- Self-awareness In part 1, I described how hot buttons are […]