by Cate Montana | Aug 22, 2016 | the E-Blog
Everybody bashes the ego. But not me. Not anymore. I’ve finally comes to terms with the sucker. The ego is not the Bad Guy people make it out to be. After a lot of years and a ton of meditation and a lot of going back and forth between the ego state and the no-ego...
by Cate Montana | Aug 17, 2016 | the E-Blog
Three guys from the sociology department of the University of Toronto recently got a long opinion piece in The New York Times, titled “When Leaning In Doesn’t Pay Off.” In it they discuss their findings of what often happens when women do just what Sheryl Sandberg...
by Cate Montana | Aug 13, 2016 | the E-Blog
Ever noticed how hard most people try to express their uniqueness? And how everybody takes the same well-worn paths of expression? You get your nose pierced, or your tongue. You get a tat—a highly original one of course—of a butterfly or a Gatling Gun. (Now that would...
by Cate Montana | Aug 8, 2016 | the E-Blog
Imagine you’re twenty-one-years old. You’ve graduated from college or a trade school. Or maybe you’ve been doing some public service or you’re already out on your own. You know who you are. You know what life is about. You understand the pitfalls of perception your...
by Cate Montana | Jul 31, 2016 | the E-Blog
I hear it everyday in one form or another: people are frightened because they think the world is coming apart. But hey – we’re looking at the possibility of a US presidential candidate getting elected who has no experience as a politician, no military...
by Cate Montana | Jul 21, 2016 | the E-Blog
I just got through re-reading a blog I wrote last year in Greece, commenting on how happy the Greek people are—a condition related to the fact that “Yes” (or “ne” in Greek) seems to be the single-most used syllable in their vocabulary. Since adopting the “Y” word as...