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The Fighter Within
What determines our fate? Perhaps it is Determination itself? One Hundred and Twenty-Nine Children were identified* as being “high risk for future problems, because they…
November 30, 2017
Six Emotional Enemies You Let Live Rent Free in Your Head
1) Fear: Fear is not real; it is an emotion we create in our minds based upon how we choose to interpret reality and predict…
November 21, 2017
Five Ways to Turn Disagreements into Diamonds
1) Frame it as a discussion, as a search for understanding and mutually acceptable solutions; never as conflict. There is a REASON for this person’s…
November 16, 2017
No Excuses Happiness
What are your criteria to be happy? Everything in your life going the way you want? Never going to happen or if it does, don’t…
November 14, 2017
Metta
Have you ever longed for “peace of mind”? For quiet contentment? To still the monkey chatter in your mind, to quiet your internal critic or…
October 31, 2017
Two Phrases Successful People Avoid
Words are powerful! The words you choose send strong messages to the world about who you are and what you are about. Just as important,…
October 12, 2017
Programming Yourself for Failure
I hear people programming themselves for failure: consistent use of negative language, persistent choice of words that speak of defeat and failure before the battle…
October 5, 2017
Single Greatest Reason
What would you say is the single greatest reason for your business achievements? Poverty is a great motivator! For an extended period of time as…
September 26, 2017
The Original American Dream
The phrase “The American Dream” was coined by James Truslow Adams in 1931. Originally it had nothing to do with material success or wealth but…
August 22, 2017
How to Access Your Best Self?
We don’t always do as well as we know. The challenges of the day are often many; life gives us pop quizzes at the most…
July 6, 2017
Why I Can’t Be at Peace Now
The mind, the ego, the subconscious often have multiple reasons why peace must be just around the corner (or difficult/impossible because of some past event)…
June 27, 2017
Don’t Let Your Pain Control You
Time heals all wounds… if we do not go back and re-wound ourselves by making the pains of the past the story of our lives,…
June 15, 2017
Solvitur Ambulando
Solvitur ambulando is Latin for “it is solved by walking” and the phrase has dual meanings. Originally “used to refer to a problem which is solved…
May 23, 2017
5 Ways to Love Yourself Better
1) Become Your Own BFF: Get on over on your own side and stay there! Hush up that inner critic! Objective observation, clear-eyed evaluation, solution-oriented…
May 2, 2017
The Full Glass
Proponents of optimism and positive thinking (of which I am unabashedly an advocate, see links below on the health benefits) tell us to see the…
April 27, 2017
Staying Calm when Angry
Anger can have a positive side; it energizes us when we are threatened or when boundaries have been violated. Unfortunately, most of the time anger…
April 20, 2017
Micro-Moments of Positivity: One Secret to a Long Life
All else being equal, the happier you are, the longer and healthier your life. Anger, stress, gloominess, melancholy, downheartedness, the blahs, the funk, the blues:…
April 18, 2017
Your Inner Life is Your Greatest Source of Strength
There is a voice inside your head that is constantly “on”, chattering away, talking to you. This voice has a personality, a world view, tendencies,…
April 13, 2017
Creating Emotions That Serve You
We generally view emotions as like the weather: something that happens beyond our control that we just have to live with. The truth is we…
April 11, 2017
Make Room for Gezellig in Your Life
Gezellig (heh-SELL-ick) is a Dutch word that has no English equivalent and which Wikipedia says is “A perfect example of untranslatability.” This is in…
April 6, 2017
Happy Just Because
Novel Idea: You don’t NEED a REASON to be happy, you can choose to be “Happy Just Because”… you WANT to be happy. Yeah, I…
February 21, 2017
Who ARE You?
More specifically, what is your self-concept? Who do YOU think you are? Who do you WANT to be? A self-concept is different from a Mission…
February 9, 2017
“The Upward Spiral”
We all have gotten in a downward spiral; fears and worries and a bad event or two can knock us off course and it is…
February 7, 2017
Do You Suffer From Atelophobia?
Atelophobia is the fear of imperfection, the fear of never being good enough and is kin to perfectionism, the obsessive compulsive striving to achieve impossible…
January 12, 2017
Five Steps to Dissolve Limiting Beliefs
Our beliefs about what is possible limit our lives for we never attempt that which we do not believe we can do or that we…
January 5, 2017
Therewith to be content
“For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.”* There you have it folks, the Secret of Happiness, all wrapped up…
December 20, 2016