Category: Positive Thinking/Visualization

An American flag and the words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

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I Woke Up in America

When I get that polite “How are you?” greeting, I frequently reply “I woke up in America and that is a great

6 green apples in a line; 1 has a sticky note on it that says "bad"

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The Bad Apple Effect

I’m going to combine several of my favorite sayings: 1) ‘You tend to become the sum total of the 5 people you

A small circle drawn on a chalkboard labeled as "your comfort zone" and a large circle next to it labeled as "where the magic happens"

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It Takes Courage but it Works!: Become a ‘Top-Level Asker’

All too often we ‘pre-reject’ ourselves by being fearful to approach others or ask for what we want. Often it involves those

4 red arrows going downward (one says "negativity", one says "critics", one says "doubt", and one says "fear") and one green arrow going upward that says "confidence"

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Your Own Worst Enemy

All too many of us are not fully on our own side. Ralph Marston once said “There are plenty of difficult obstacles

A couple sitting down and holding handsw

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The Thought Pattern That Saves Relationships… and the One that Virtually Dooms Them

It’s very simple really, a blinding flash of the obvious but just like fish discovering water last: what is constantly right in

A large piece of white marble being sculpted with a hammer and chisel

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Unleashing the Michelangelo Phenomenon

The Michelangelo Phenomenon is an observed effect by marriage counselors and psychologists reflecting the way couples mold or ‘sculpt’ each other over

A bunch of yellow ping pong balls with smiley faces on them

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Have You Exercised Your Happiness Muscle Lately?

As Abe Lincoln famously said: “Most of us are as happy as we make up our minds to be.” This suggests that

A picture of an open journal with a pen and "today I am grateful for" written on the page

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Excite Your Life: Escaping the Habituation Trap

Habituation is the human propensity, in scientific terms, ‘to diminish our response to constant stimuli over time’. Or in plain English, our

A drawing of a yellow sunflower with a smiling face with a blue sky in the background

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Think the Right Thought

What does “Think the Right Thought” mean? First, acknowledge that you have the ability to choose the thoughts you think. Now it

4 words written on a chalkboard, all with the first 2 letters crossed out with an "x": "Impossible", "Unable", "Unsolvable", and "undoable"

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Do You Experience Goal-incongruent Emotions?

Negative emotions such as doubt, fear, anxiety, depression, despair, guilt, or shame all weaken us, detract from our focus, sap our energy

2 illustrated silhouettes of a human head; 1 in gray with a raincloud above it and the other in yellow with a sunshine above it

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Your Thoughts Create

What are you creating? What do you choose to observe? What thoughts do you choose? What identity do you don? What mood,