EXCESS BAGGAGE: Getting Out of Your Own Way

Recently, I've had a number of conversations with clients about how they unknowingly sabotage their own progress. And I've noticed myself referring people to an older book that has a lot of great information about this topic. The book is called Excess Baggage: Getting Out of Your Own Way by Judith Sills. If you are struggling with your own blind spots. I highly recommend this book.

Here is the Publisher Weekly review of the book:

From Publishers Weekly
Many people's strong points are vitiated by their innate weaknesses, according to psychologist Sills ( How to Stop Looking for Someone Perfect and Find Someone to Love ), and these weaknesses--or "excess baggage"--are our blind spots. They are difficult for us to recognize; hence they make it harder for us to attain our goals and for others to like us. Sills offers deliberately exaggerated profiles of five main psychological types, each of which she sees as fueled by a different "ruling passion": control, self-esteem, security, attachment and justice. The person whose ruling passion is security may be very generous, but also dependent and manipulative, for example, and a person motivated by the need to control may be efficient, but could also be a workaholic. Accompanying each profile are exercises to help readers to jettison excess baggage. While Sills's analysis is simplistic, her prose is crisp and entertaining and her advice is practical.

FEAR AND THE DARK KNIGHT

I know that one of the most common issues my clients face is fear. Fear of failure, fear of success, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, and fear of change - all of these manifestations of fear get in our way of living the life we long to live. But, even though it has become a cliche, facing our fear does make us more powerful.

Facing fear, conquering it, and finding meaning in that battle is the themes played out in the new movie - BATMAN BEGINS. Even if you are not a superhero fan, you should check this film out. Its the best film of all the summer blockbusters. So I have to add it to my updated list - THE TOP MOVIES OF 2005.

So far here is the list of the best movies of 2005 in no certain order:

1. Crash
2. Batman Begins
3. Cinderella Man
4. In Good Company
5. The Interpreter
6. Sin City

Best,

Mark