by Christine Li | Sep 27, 2016 | Actions, All Posts, Resistance, Techniques
Have you ever wondered why it can feel so difficult to make positive changes in your life? What I have learned from working with my psychotherapy and coaching clients over the past 20 years is this — None of us is lacking in desire to make positive changes. It...
by Christine Li | Jul 7, 2016 | Actions, All Posts, Resistance, Techniques
We live in the era of distractions. There is no doubt about this. The number of distractions we face each day seems endless. When we get mired in the larger web of distractions, including the internet, busywork, errands, e-mail, and shopping, we can lose sight of the...
by Christine Li | Jun 6, 2016 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Techniques
One of the key strategies I teach to help people improve their productivity and to fight their anxiety is this: SEPARATE YOUR FEELINGS FROM YOUR WORK AS BEST AS YOU CAN. This is not to say that we should not care about our work. It's that we should not care so much...
by Christine Li | May 23, 2016 | Actions, All Posts, Resistance, Techniques
What unresolved problems do you have in your life right now? How much distress are you under because of them? Let's find a way out and forward. Procrastinators tend to sit on piles of problems. Unfinished projects, undelivered mail, ideas unfulfilled. One way to...
by Christine Li | Apr 28, 2016 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Techniques
When I work with clients, I hear about a lot of fears. Those fears never scare me. You know why? Because I have no idea whether those fears will become real or not. Please remember me telling you “I have no idea” the next time you think of asking me about...
by Christine Li | Apr 22, 2016 | Actions, All Posts, Resistance, Techniques
My goal today is to be simple. Simple tends to get things done, I think. Procrastination operates by making things more complicated: Instead of dealing with just our present-moment tasks, we have to deal with the ones we are behind on too. Our minds become...