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To Live a Better Life; Avoid These Two All-Too-Common Forms of Self Sabotage
Self-Doubt You must believe in yourself (even if it takes a leap of faith at times!) before others will. Folks tend to sense your self-appraisal…
December 29, 2022
Something to Do in 2023 To Live a Better Life
Live Life on Purpose To be happy, life must have meaning, a direction, a focus… but the meaning of life is not a question we…
December 27, 2022
I’m a North Star Person; I Sail a Steady Course
Our self-concept, how we see ourselves, is a powerful determinant of our lives. Who we believe we are is a construct we’ve picked up from…
December 22, 2022
Choose Heaven
More than we often realize, how we choose to view our world shapes our world. The frame we give events, the way we interpret the…
December 15, 2022
Our Hurts Become Our Fears; Our Fears Become Our Limits
Our hurts often become our fears and then all too frequently our fears become our limits… if we let them, if we live an unaware…
December 6, 2022
AMY isn’t Your Friend
The amygdala, or AMY for short (from AMYgdala) is an almond-shaped cluster of nuclei located deep within the temporal lobes of your brain. AMY is…
November 29, 2022
Small Blessings Count Too
Elizabeth Gilbert (‘Eat, Pray, Love’) once said “You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.” I take her words to mean…
November 24, 2022
What Emotional Energy seeds are you planting? For as you Sow, so shall you Reap
If we choose to speak disrespectfully of others (and remember we humans are a sensitive bunch); if we elect to gripe or groan about “how…
November 22, 2022
Embracing Disconfirming Evidence
Disconfirming evidence is anything that does NOT support our current belief system or reinforce our convictions about who we are or what we are capable…
November 8, 2022
Taking in the Good
There is a theory out there that our brains are hard wired with a negativity bias as a survival technique from ancient times. In a…
October 13, 2022
Four Traits of Happy People
1. They Choose Their Mindset They remain optimistic, solution-oriented, forward thinkers in all circumstances. They know that no matter what, a positive outlook will achieve…
October 6, 2022
Do the Words You Use Impact Your Life Expectancy?
If the words you choose to use are consistently positive (including your inner self talk), you most likely have an optimistic view of life and…
September 29, 2022
The Life Span of an Emotion
According to a Harvard neuroanatomist the life span on an emotion is just 90 seconds: “When a person has a reaction to something in the…
September 27, 2022
To Be Your Best Self, Don’t Do These 5 Things
Self-criticism: While one should always acknowledge and accept reality, getting down on oneself is a losing path. Failure to Release: Never waste emotional energy on…
September 22, 2022
Escaping the Solomon’s Paradox
Solomon was the king of ancient Israel ruling from around 970 to 931 BC. Renowned for his wisdom, his personal life was somewhat messy to…
September 6, 2022
Change the Locks…NOW!
Most likely it’s far past time to change the locks to the gateway of your mind, to the foyer of your thoughts. In the hurley…
September 1, 2022
Stressed? Or Blessed?
Stress is not an event but rather a learned reaction to an event. That reaction can be modified or at least mollified. It can be…
August 25, 2022
OCP=OR
We have a saying at my company: “Our Customer’s Perception is Our Reality.” (OCP=OR) Each one of us sees the world differently and when it…
August 18, 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
Are You Keeping Your Side of the Street Clean?
A common way in which we distract ourselves from doing our own internal work is focus on faults of others or how we’ve been wronged.…
June 30, 2022
How Clean is Your Mirror?
How well do you know you? When you look inside yourself, how close to 20/20 is your vision? Do you see yourself clearly? As others…
June 23, 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
Memorize This
“Every thought, every emotion, every action has energy consequences.” The energy can be positive or negative but it is undeniable that thoughts, emotions, and actions…
June 9, 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