Cougar Dreams and the Power of Choosing

Overcoming inertia one choice at a time

To every man there openeth
A way, and ways, and a way.
And the high soul climbs the high way,
And the low soul gropes the low.
And in between, on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth
A high way and a low,
And every man decideth
The way his soul shall go.

— -John Oxenham

Even writers who are also former personal development coaches and avid self-improvement devotees can struggle with inertia and feeling disempowered. Years ago, when I was in the throes of a particularly impotent (figuratively speaking) period in both my personal and professional life, I had a really vivid dream . . .

A week or so after the dream, I was visiting the Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona. I hadn’t bothered to read the brochure about the tour…

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