This article focuses on questions that will help you notice what you are doing. The questions will make you aware of what is occurring. The piece encourages you to ponder the questions, apply them to your current situation, and inspect the behavior. Once you have accomplished that task, write about what you learned. Awareness is the first step toward changing the conduct or selecting a new one. Behavior change will be covered in another article.

This article poses some ideas about why trying harder usually isn’t the answer. There are common examples which we will all recognize. Along with some new thoughts of replacements for the typical “Try Harder”. This article does not reference the accepted Yoda “Try Not Do” - yet there is great wisdom in the universally known words. We suggest using the ideas on a daily basis for the next 30 days to 60 days as an experiment to see what outcomes present themselves to you.