OK, so at Goorin's Hat Store in the Quarter, the young lady tries to steer me in "a certain direction" old White guys go, and I just named it--"I am not doing 'Old White Guy goes Indiana Freakin'' Jones', like "yeah, dude, I'm still bringin' badass, if you want any...". Yeah, no... So I go…
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Me & Al & My Life
So I was a freshman at The Ohio State University, and lied about my residence status so that I could avoid living in a dorm, and instead live with my lifelong friend and Cleveland neighbor Tommy Philip and some guys he knew. That’s how the Al thing…
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"You can't get sick enough to make the sick ones well, and you can't get poor enough to make the poor ones abundant, and you can't get weak enough to make the weak ones strong, and you can't dis-empower yourself enough to make the dis-empowered ones feel empowered." Abraham says that a lot...
We…
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Hi...I am a Therapist and a Life Coach. I have had a really strong run at manifesting in my life, and I don’t even think I’m very good at keeping my thinking clean and positive. OMG, I can get whiny, negative, blaming, and all blah blah blah about the world, people I work with, and…
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What We Need in Our Lives: A Therapist’s Observations, by Jim Nolan
Something to look forward to. OK, I get the “Now” thing, and that’s coming up on this list. But Now, the way Now has been Nowed in the psycho-spiritual literature, is never enough for many of us. Sometimes “Now” is creating…
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Empowerment as a Choice: Victimhood as a Choice --by Jim Nolan
Life happens. People do what they do, elect who they elect, love what they love, get into against-ness with what they get into against-ness with, decide who will be their Personal Satan and who will be their Second Coming.
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Dr. Jim Nolan is having a banner year in his private practice. Here's why. Maybe. …
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Make a New Year’s Resolution to Get Back into Therapy or Coaching
Can you make changes in your life on your own?
Heck, yeah. We all do, all the time.
Can it help to have a therapist/coach on your side as you do so?
Heck, yeah. We all know that, too.
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Some therapists are bus drivers, some cabbies.
Bus drivers have set routes. It’s where they go, and it’s important for them to keep to timelines. They stop where they are scheduled to stop, not necessarily where you were wanting to get off and look around.
Cabbies invite you in, and say “Where you…
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For Many, Personal Counseling is Free
You probably did not know that.
If you have insurance, you may very well be eligible for free personal counseling. If you have Medicaid, it is very likely. If you have New Mexico Health Connections, Presbyterian, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, your therapy might be free of cost, or…
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Observations on who seems to come see me in Private Practice...…
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"Therapists" do not actually DO therapy. Why, then, do we use that word?…
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For many, Counseling these days is free, or close to it. A lot of people don't know that yet...…
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Doc pulls together several lineages that share a lot in common...…
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Coventry: Coming of Age in 1968
--by Dr. James Michael Nolan
I was 15.
We drove to Coventry,
A neighborhood on Cleveland’s east side,
Maybe with Rick Smudz,
or Gregg Gresko?
I forget.
It was Cleveland’s Haight-Ashbury.
I didn’t know shit,
But I…
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Doc offers a simple structured exercise for articulating your own Purpose in Life. …
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Doc offers some interesting potential connections between INFPs and the Principle or Law of Attraction...…
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Doc presents alternative ways to approach Therapy, using Positive Psychology and the Principle of Attraction. …
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Doc presents more travails of the INFP and some other Myers-Briggs observations...…
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Jim reflects on the potential value of New Year's Resolutions in moving your life in the direction you want it to go in 2016.…
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Doc gives us a take on how the Principle of Attraction ought to work...…
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INFPs Are One-of-a-Kind If you are an INFP and you feel weird on the planet, it kind of makes sense, because statistically, you are. INFPs make up an extremely small percentage of our culture, so feeling like we are weird, and being PERCEIVED as kind of weird, is something we should get used to. Learning that…
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What we focus upon tends to be what we create, and what we attract. So it can be a problem that when traditional Psychotherapy focuses so heavily on "what is wrong"...…
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Jim's take on how we create our own realities, even if we do not think we do...…
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We are often too quick to look for answers before we find the right questions...Life Coaching can help you ask different, and better, questions. …
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Serious Studies in Myers-Briggs Typology. Sort of.
The sales guys on the floor are never INFPs. Unfortunately, they are more probably ESTJ, possibly ENTJ. They train the other sales guys too. That, from an INFP point of view, is a disaster.
Who are the ESTJs?
The ESTJ’s plan big events for me and…
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Some leaders sound very leaderly, in voice tone, in formality, in their calculated reserve. They probably don’t use words like suck, my bad, dude, or play fantasy baseball. That’s OK. A lot of people want that kind of leader, or at least one that presents that way. I have ten bucks that says…
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Dr. Jim Nolan discusses two styles of leadership, using Tennis as the central metaphor. …
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A Psychosocial Profile of an INFP
By Jim Nolan, Santa Fe (then President of Southwestern College)
“I”
People laugh when I tell them I am an “I”. I am funny, can be outlandish, and as president of my graduate institution, I gave auditorium graduation speeches, which were smart, entertaining, sincere,…
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Learning to take responsibility sooner, rather than later, when you screw something up, is its own spiritual path...…
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