Becoming a Lawyer for your Family Traditions
Becoming a Lawyer for your Family Traditions
Based on a metaphor submitted to ACBS by Richard Whitney
Has your mind tricked you into taking on the role as a defense lawyer for your family traditions?
Becoming a Lawyer for your Family Traditions
Based on a metaphor submitted to ACBS by Richard Whitney
Has your mind tricked you into taking on the role as a defense lawyer for your family traditions?
Picture your life as a movie. The first episodes have already been shot. Now the production is moving on. Imagine that you are the director and you can direct an actor that plays your part. But you’re a special kind of director with limited power. You can’t go to the screenplay writer and ask him to change the…
January is a time when many of us consider making personal changes. Inevitably, we also reflect on some of the resolutions to change that we made last January. And we might well come to the conclusion that change is just too darn difficult. This article discusses how this plays out with the specific concern of weight…
The Auction Based on a metaphor submitted to ACBS by joshua.ruberg Imagine you’re at an auction where your thoughts and feelings are being sold off. You’re allowed to inspect the lots before the auction begins. You can spend some time looking at each item and thinking about how you might use it. When the auction…
Flyfishing Based on a metaphor submitted to ACBS by Richard Whitney A good fly fisher knows exactly what the trout are feeding on and can tie up flies that imitate those insects. They are so good at this that the trout cannot tell the difference. They cast the fly into the stream right in front…
Ride the Sushi Train of the Mind My daughter used to love those restaurants where sushi dishes paraded past on a little train track. Long-time Edmontonions may remember that there used to be one in WEM. In this new video, Russ Harris uses the sushi train as a beautiful metaphor for the relationship that we all…
Researchers actually do call it the “what the heck” effect (or something close to that). It refers to the moment when you realize that you’ve blown your calorie goal for the day, so you might as well order pizza and beer. Or the moment when you have one cigarette at a party and go on…