Seven Topics to Avoid if You Don’t Want to Risk Being a Bore
I hesitate to disagree with the immortal La Rochefoucauld, but I think he was wrong when he wrote, “We are always bored by those whom we bore.” Not always (though I often remind myself of this...
View ArticleHow Sleep & Meditation Help Us Achieve Our Dreams
I’ve spent too many days feeling irritable, sluggish, distracted, and struggling to stay awake. It took too many nights of poor sleep to understand how important quality sleep is for my health. I was...
View ArticleTo Know Thyself
The most common belief that people have to live with their entire life is that “I am not enough.” Dr. Kent Hoffman – professor at the University of Virginia – performed a study during the last 40...
View ArticleThe 5-Minute Method I Use to Make Stress and Anxiety Vanish
A friend of mine had always had nice teeth. As a teenager, every time she’d visit the dentist, they’d peer inside her mouth and exclaim over here fine, straight, white teeth. Until recently, when all...
View ArticleEnergy: It’s What’s for Breakfast… Also Lunch and Dinner.
You sometimes have to really think about how nuanced and complicated the human condition is. We are capable of such amazing beauty and wonder, however sadly it’s in a world that doesn’t always embrace...
View ArticleWhat Is Your Personal Moonshot?
A moonshot, according to the ubiquitous WikiPedia, is a “is an ambitious, exploratory and ground-breaking project undertaken without any expectation of near-term profitability or benefit and also,...
View ArticleWhat If Mistakes Are Actually Awesome?!
“Why do you always say I learn from my mistakes? Do I always have to get in trouble to learn stuff?!” My son was hanging out the car window waving at neighboring cars in traffic until I scolded him to...
View ArticleWhy Reading Is A Good Start To A Good Day…
What 10 books would you recommend for an adult who hasn’t accomplished anything yet but wants to start trying to live a successful life? When I was a kid, at least 10 girls rejected me because of...
View ArticleGood Manners and Some Wuv. We Could All Use More of Them.
There are still some basic good manners that should prevail no matter our generation, station, or affiliation. Here’s what it might mean to be classy, kind, and considerate whenever you are able (and...
View ArticleHow to Deal with Fear of Missing Out
Fear of missing out or FOMO affects everyone, harming personal happiness and hampering inspiration. The “fear of missing out” is an uneasy, often all-consuming, feeling of missing important events. It...
View ArticleHow to Let Go of Your Resentment
Getting your life back after divorce can be hard. There are financial issues, co-parenting, and emotional roller-coasters to ride that can leave us feeling exhausted, wondering if we’ll ever move on...
View ArticleAre You Diet Ready?
How many of you have your homes littered with failed attempts at losing weight or trying an exercise plan just guaranteed to take the pounds off and give us new bodies? You know what I’m talking about:...
View ArticleIs Toxic Shame Ruining Your Happiness?
Do you know the difference between healthy guilt and toxic shame? They can look a lot alike but are really completely different. This is a common issue and many of you have asked me to address it, so...
View ArticleJust Ask
“Ask and ye shall receive.” You’ve heard this, yet do you find that sometimes you do not ask? Like times when you feel like it would be needy or greedy. Or times when you do not want to put the other...
View ArticleAre You Chronically Late? 8 Tips for Showing Up on Time.
Many people have the habit of constantly running late — and they drive themselves, and other people, crazy. I have the opposite problem — I’m pathologically early, and often arrive places too soon....
View ArticleGet it Done Using Time Effectively – 3 Tips
I woke up this morning feeling totally rested. But part of me just wanted to stay in bed. After all, it was only 6am. So I closed my eyes for a few minutes but then they popped open again. What did I...
View ArticleThe Only Worthwhile Investment We Ever Make
We are all perpetually bombarded with an endless array of investment opportunities, be it an investment of our attention, energy, money, skill, sweat, emotions, knowledge, etc. But what if there was...
View ArticleSeven Things Darth Vader Can Teach Us About Depression
Men aren’t very good at accepting the truth about depression. Many men don’t even believe that it exists, considering it to be a fiction created by weak minded fools that, in reality, just need to get...
View ArticleIt Only Takes Ten Minutes to Stop Your Child’s Whining
‘Now when my daughter starts whining, I hold her. Sometimes it takes ten minutes, but then she tells me when she’s done, and goes off. It seems to ground her. It grounds me, too.” – Kelly Kelly put it...
View ArticleWhat to Do when Your Relationship Isn’t Working
“Your partner’s flaws are your own, because you’re projecting them.” – Byron Katie Being in a romantic relationship with someone is easy. Keeping the relationship fulfilling, happy and alive is a...
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