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9 Ways to Get More Happiness in Your Life
Go Toward Your Goals: Progress and building a sense of forward momentum builds confidence and lifts your spirit. Count Your Blessings: Listing all the things…
August 4, 2022
Choosing the World You Live In
Believe it or not, in large measure, you are choosing the world you experience. As has been said in many ways and many times, “we…
July 28, 2022
How to be Miserable… and the Antidote
Want to be miserable? Complain! Constantly! Construct a never-ending litany of things you deplore and fixate on them. Focus on all that is wrong with…
July 21, 2022
What You Choose to Emphasize Sets the Course of Your Days
What you focus on expands; thoughts held in mind attract in kind and every thought has emotional consequences. When you wallow in the downside, your…
July 19, 2022
Some folks feel the rain. Others just get wet.
Life. Stuff happens. Some of it beyond bad, other stuff beyond a doubt awesomely wonderful. But most stuff lies in between those extremes and that…
July 12, 2022
It’s Your One and Only Life, Right? So Own Your Days. Totally.
Everything is connected. Every action you take, every thought you have, every word you speak has consequences. Individually small perhaps, but collectively incredibly powerful. So…
July 7, 2022
Eight Powerful and Very Learnable Traits of Highly Confident People
They are voracious learners Insatiably curious, confident people continuously seek out new knowledge, ask intelligent, interesting questions, and listen to the answers. As lifelong learners,…
June 21, 2022
Success in 24 Simple Sentences
Surround yourself with things that lift you up, that call to out to the best in you. Believe in yourself; someone must win: Ask “Why…
June 14, 2022
Take Good Notes
If you want to pass a class in school, you take good notes. Makes sense that if you want to learn the lessons of life,…
June 7, 2022
The 6 R’s: Pathway to a New, Better, Happier You
The human mind is an incredible thing! It is estimated that we humans have between 50,000-80,000 thoughts a day. Unfortunately, all too many are automatic,…
June 2, 2022
Project Management: The Proper Place for Pessimism
While we might not think of it as such, we are all “Project Managers” at some point in our lives. We all have things we…
May 31, 2022
Expectancy Effect: Make it Your Ally, Not Your Foe
The “Expectancy Effect” is the phenomenon by which folk’s perceptions and behavior change as a result of their or others prior beliefs i.e. expectations. It…
May 10, 2022
The ABC’s of Success
Access your Best Self. This requires taking the time to KNOW yourself, developing both your EQ (emotional intelligence) and wisely exploring a wide range of…
April 28, 2022
What’s The Agenda?
Life is full of distractions, side roads, and dead ends; drama that may grab our attention but are not aligned with our purpose, our mission,…
April 26, 2022
If This Isn’t in Your Mental Toolbox, You Are Handicapped
I’m a big believer that solid, steady progress wins most races over the long haul and that the mastery of the basics, day in and…
April 19, 2022
First Rule of Project Management
Create a Timeline! Far more than just a final deadline, a timeline lays out, in sequential order, a schedule of all the events AND the…
April 12, 2022
Three Steps to Spring Clean Your Brain
Step One: Take Inventory Observe how you spend your time AND your energy. Who and What lifts you? Who and What drains you? What do…
April 7, 2022
Does Happiness Take Work?
The short answer is: “Yes, sometimes, even often.” Why? Because our impulses, our intuitions, our social conditioning around what will make us happy are all…
April 5, 2022
How Well Do You Know You?
When was the last time you did a “Self-Assessment”? Put yourself through an annual Mental/Spiritual Health exam? It can start with thinking about your thinking:…
March 22, 2022
The Best Tool in Your Mental Skills Toolbox… that no one talks about
Being “controlling” has a negative vibe these days and appropriately so in the context of a personal relationship. As a result, the concept of “control”…
March 8, 2022
Taking the Kindness Challenge: Can You Become a Kindness Factory?
How do we make “kindness the norm”? One way is by starting a “Kindness Log” where you record acts of kindness you have observed or…
February 22, 2022
Four Easy Ways to Self-Sabotage
Poison Your Body with Junk Food and Drinks. Love Yourself? Want to live long and healthy? Want more energy? Avoid processed food, red meat, and…
February 15, 2022
Two Questions Highly Productive People Ask
1. What are the highest value tasks before me? Value is usually more of an emotional call then aught else, especially once beyond the base…
February 3, 2022
Self-knowledge: The Ultimate Super-Power
How well do you know yourself? Or perhaps better put, how well do you WANT to know yourself? Someone once defined a successful relationship as…
February 1, 2022
Three Simple Rules To Put You in the Top 10%
Live Smart Avoid Dumb Don’t Sabotage That’s it! Rather straightforward, right? However, like many things, principles aren’t that complicated, it’s the day-to-day application that gets…
January 18, 2022
Better than Goals
I’m a big believer in goals, hard targets to shoot for, mountain tops to dream of. And yet as I journey through my 7th decade,…
January 13, 2022