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Listening Past the Attack
“I’m sick and tired of putting up with your moods. Can’t you just stop moaning and groaning and complaining and just be happy for once…
August 27, 2024
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 to a large…
August 22, 2024
The Invincible Summer Within
There is a famous quote by Nobel Literature Prize winner Albert Camus: “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me…
August 20, 2024
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 tendency to take…
August 15, 2024
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 may be a…
August 13, 2024
Take a Vacation… From You
Have you ever wondered what could be? Noticed how others, not that different from you, have qualities and habits you’d like to have? Consider taking…
August 8, 2024
True Grit: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
True Grit: Call it resilience or perseverance or determination or courage or fortitude or toughness. Call it all of those things and more: steadfastness in…
August 6, 2024
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 and drive. It’s…
August 1, 2024
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, what emotions, what…
July 30, 2024
How Many You’s Make Up You? Which You Do You Answer To?
We all have many sides, many selves within us; conflicting wishes, drives, and emotions, making the old quote ‘To thy own self be true’ a…
July 25, 2024
Inner Scorecard or Outer Scorecard?
Inner success or outer success? Which matters most to you? Where did your values and beliefs come from? Truly yours, the result of deep self-awareness,…
July 23, 2024