Tweet No matter how well we think we know ourselves, there’s always more to learn. We are, after all, constantly growing and changing due to the experiences and thoughts we have. In this blog, I advocate using your crushes to learn about yourself. Before you can effectively do that, you need a solid starting point.… Continue reading 5 Tools to Pin Down Who You Are Now
What is a ‘Successful’ Crush?
Tweet One of the comments I got from last week’s tale of successfully crush revelation raised the question of what a successful crush entailed. The simple answer is this: A successful crush is one that helps you become a better person while causing as few new problems as possible. That’s it. Too often we confuse… Continue reading What is a ‘Successful’ Crush?
Failure and Success: Telling Someone About the Crush (Part II)
Tweet So I’ve talked about how to tell someone you have a crush on them and why you’d want to do that. I figure now it’s time I share a couple of stories from my own life. Just a little while ago, I told you about one that didn’t go so well. Now I’d like… Continue reading Failure and Success: Telling Someone About the Crush (Part II)
Failure and Success: Telling Someone About the Crush (Part I)
Tweet So I’ve talked about how to tell someone you have a crush on them and why you’d want to do that. I figure now it’s time I share a couple of stories from my own life. One when things went pretty darn wrong and another where they went considerably better. A Failure to Understand… Continue reading Failure and Success: Telling Someone About the Crush (Part I)
Why Speak Up
Tweet After last week’s post about how to tell someone you have a crush on them, I was met again and again with two major questions: Why not just ask them out? and Why tell them? The first I answered a while ago here. In a nutshell: dating isn’t something everyone enjoys doing. At least… Continue reading Why Speak Up
The Month Gone, the Month to Come
Tweet New monthly bit here. Just a quick note catching up and looking ahead. A kind of regular check and balance to make sure things are moving in some direction that vaguely resembles “forward.” Looking Back February was nowhere near as active a month here as I had planned (and January was pretty much non-existent). … Continue reading The Month Gone, the Month to Come
Breaking the Silence: 5 Steps to Announcing Your Crush
Tweet With International Crush Day having just passed, I hope some of you let fly with declarations of wild interest to some of your crushes. Me? I discovered that I really don’t have many actual crushes around I haven’t told about my crush on them. And those that I do have… well, they’re not quite… Continue reading Breaking the Silence: 5 Steps to Announcing Your Crush