by Carl Mothes | Mar 20, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
We often tout efficiency as the pinnacle guiding principle on the way toward continued human achievement—almost like it’s the only metric that matters. Yes, it can be important, but what about pleasure? It’s, of course, not a binary situation—efficiency or...
by Carl Mothes | Jul 14, 2022 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
We want answers. More specifically, we want ‘an’ answer. Why am I like this? What keeps me doing/not doing what I want to do and know I should do? Typically when asking these questions to ourselves we just assume there is ‘an’ answer. Perhaps we recognize there may be...
by Carl Mothes | Mar 23, 2022 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
I’ve always been taken by the concept of choice. That may sound odd. After all how much thought can be put into what constitutes a choice or the act of choosing. It’s simply the determination of one option over another – right? Well maybe it does...
by Carl Mothes | Jan 10, 2022 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
I have a slew of blog posts in various stages of completion and sitting down to determine which post to complete next, I was struck that I have a Regret 1 sitting out there without a Regret 2. So, here we go… Recently I’ve given some thought to regret....
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by Carl Mothes | Feb 5, 2021 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
Let’s continue down our absurd path by considering another aspect of perspective: salience (that which is important and mattering to us). I regularly refer to this perspective shift as a shift in our ‘zoom magnification.’ By zooming all the way out or all the way...
by Carl Mothes | May 1, 2020 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
There seems to be this pervasive feeling of needing to be (or at least thinking that we need to be) productive during this time of lock-down and Stay at Home Orders. Throughout this pandemic, I’ve talked with my clients and many seem to have a degree of this...
