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Do You Have Enough Pleasure in Your Life?
Pleasure. What comes to mind when I say that word? These days we talk a lot about success, health, and consciousness but we do not talk as much about pleasure. And by pleasure I mean the things that...
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Use the End of Daylight Saving Time to Get an Extra Hour in Your Day
While writing Better Than Before, my book about habit change, when I talked to people about the habits they want to change, they often mentioned that they lack the time for a new habit. To clear time...
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How to Keep All the Balls in the Air…
You’ve been to the circus. You’ve seen the act… And you’re like…seriously, how did that clown juggle five chainsaws, three monkeys, a platypus, nine avocados and a partridge in a pear tree?! Would you...
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Love Them Anyway
As we walk through the journey of life we will experience the presence of many different people who will touch our hearts in numerous ways. Some are with us from birth and some enter our story in...
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How Mindful Meditation Can Help Melt Your Stress Away
First Aid For Stress Stress can be one of the most harmful elements in our lives. It affects our well-being on so many levels. Our mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health are all subject to...
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I Just Wanted to See the World
I’ve felt so small in the context of all of the world’s chaos lately. It’s been suffocating and crushing and exhausting. It’s caused me to doubt the value in everything I do for weeks. I’ve talked to...
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It’s Time to Change the Road You Walk On
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” -Dolly Parton You could make a big change at any point in your life. The world could be floating along, with or without you, just...
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Work Life and Contentment – a Letter to My Son
My Beloved Son, You will more than likely read this letter, the teenager that you are, appreciating and agreeing with the sentiment, but ignoring or putting aside most of it; just as I did with nearly...
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The Laws of Human Nature (Why We Are the Way We Are)
We don’t walk around thinking, “My boss is acting.” “My wife is acting.” “My kids are acting.” But they are. Whether they know it not. “Everyone has a character,” Robert Greene said on my podcast. “We...
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Before You Give Up, Read This…
Being true to yourself is not always easy. For fear of not being accepted, we tailor our personality, mince our words, and carve our opinions to fit in. It takes courage to be real… and it takes...
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How to Love Yourself & Make the World a Better Place in the Process
Have you ever wondered why we find it so easy to love other people yet find it so difficult learning how to love yourself? I think it’s because we have been taught that loving ourselves is selfish or...
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How to Break Free from Repressed Emotions
You are out there living life to the fullest and enjoying every passing moment. It seems as though you are floating on cloud nine and there’s nothing that’s going to bring you down. Then, it happens....
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The Challenge with Being a Lighthouse
A few months ago, a friend and former client came to me and shared that she wanted to move forward in her work in a bigger way, she wanted to share her inconvenient truths with the world, and she...
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My Mom Died Behind the Closed Door
Singing my mom to sleep My 13-year-old son was supposed to play a song “Alive” in his piano recital this spring but instead, for some reason, he changed his mind last minute and played “Sing Me to...
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Why Is It Taking so Long?
Do you ever feel like your dreams are taking a really long time to come true? The career you want has not happened despite your efforts. The relationship you desire has not manifested even though you...
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30 Tips I Use to Make Myself Happier, Right Now.
My book The Happiness Project came out almost ten years ago—wow, that’s hard to believe. One of the most important things I learned as part of doing that project, and an idea that I put into practice...
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Stop Overriding Your Best Sense! Build Trust by Listening to Your Needs
You feel like you are about to collapse. But your only focus is to push through. What’s that you hear from your friends about taking care of yourself? That you have needs, too? Yeah, but… You just...
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We Need More Wonder and Awe in Our Lives
“Seek out experiences that give you goosebumps.” – Dacher Keltner I was standing on a boat in water so calm it was almost flat. The boat’s engines were off, allowing the soft sounds of nature to be...
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Think Twice Before Pulling Yourself Together
“You have got to pull yourself together”. That was a general comment I made in a conversation a little while ago. I was told, perhaps tongue in cheek, that this doesn’t sound like something a therapist...
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Make Peace with Your Body
“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel A few years ago, a dear friend of mine told me something that totally took me by surprise. I was complaining about my hair, I wanted...
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