by Rita Castillo-Salese | Jan 18, 2026
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” Joseph Campbell Are you unconsciously choosing what drains you? Here’s an uncomfortable question: What if you’re choosing your tolerations? I know. That stings a little. But stay with...
by Rita Castillo-Salese | Jan 11, 2026
“You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.” Stop managing it. Start eliminating it. Here’s what I’ve learned from thousands of hours of coaching people: We spend an incredible amount of...
by Rita Castillo-Salese | Jan 5, 2026
“What you tolerate, you cannot transform.” The Silent Energy Thieves in Your Life What’s draining your energy without you realizing it? It’s January 2026, and while everyone is talking about making resolutions and setting goals, I want to ask...
by Rita Castillo-Salese | Apr 30, 2025
I hope you’ve gotten tremendous value out of the series, “When Your Brain Lies to You”. My goal was for you to be able to identify the voices of the various Inner Critics and have a plan to silence them. A quick review – Imposter Syndrome: The Fraud Illusion...
by Rita Castillo-Salese | Apr 21, 2025
“Confidence is built, not born.” – Unknown When Your Brain Undermines Your Confidence A while back a client was updating me during our coaching session and told me that he had just closed a million-dollar deal earlier in the week. No matter how...
by Rita Castillo-Salese | Apr 15, 2025
“Don’t let the shadow of the other shoe spoil the sunshine of the moment.” – Unknown Why High Achievers Expect Things to Go Wrong Hang around high-achievers long enough and you’ll hear this statement, “I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop.”...
by Rita Castillo-Salese | Mar 25, 2025
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” – Winston Churchill Fear vs. Reality: How Your Brain Creates False Alarms The Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr....
by Rita Castillo-Salese | Mar 11, 2025
“The best way to get something done is to begin.” – Unknown Procrastination and the Brain 1 Thing It was a Friday morning in the spring of 2022. I had reserved this day to do only 1 thing. I had 1 thing written in my Focus Planner. I was ready. ...
by Rita Castillo-Salese | Mar 4, 2025
“The exaggerated esteem in which my life work is held makes me very ill at ease. I feel compelled to think of myself as an involuntary swindler.” – Albert Einstein You’ve achieved great things. You have the track record, the credentials, and the...
by Rita Castillo-Salese | Apr 29, 2024
Be Brave Be Strong 4 Words Have 4 words ever changed your life? Those 4 words changed mine. Be brave be strong were spoken to me by my father in 2022. I was a full year into grappling with a mysterious chronic illness. Plot twist; my dad went to be with the Lord in...
