How Your Dreams Reveal The Secrets In Your Mind
What Do Dreams Reveal? Throughout history, dreams have played a major role in cultural, spiritual, philosophical, and creative thought. In modern times, the scientific and psychological view of dreams,...
View ArticleThis Is How You Know When You Should Walk Away
Walking away is often as much a choice as it is an obligation. It comes with sacrifice as much as joy. It comes with times of unbelievable laughter and that of exquisite loneliness. It comes with...
View ArticleHow to Cope with the Difficult Days
Difficult days and times in our lives, we all have them, in our past, present and future. Some days we cope well, others feel like never ending pain and emptiness. Then we have to take care. How? 1....
View ArticleHow We Treat Each Other Reflects Who We Are
What’s wrong in the world? What’s wrong is that I’m seeing far too many issues with people who, Seem to have a god-complex; Think they’re right, and you’re wrong (discussion not optional), and; Seem to...
View ArticleAre You the Hero?
Sometimes I wake up depressed. I want more. I want to be the hero of my story. I think of the stupid things I said the night before. I worry what people think of me. I worry if my kids like me. I reset...
View ArticleHey, Fire Starter! Is Your Time Management System Starving Your Soul?
Some people diet obsessively. Others manage their time obsessively. Both obsessions can be driven by a lack of self worth—a constant striving to be more acceptable, more productive… better. Time...
View Article4 Tips to Help You Accept & Embrace Change
Whether you perceive it or not, everything is constantly changing – the environment, the weather, the economy, technology, society, culture, your friends and family, your body, everything. And the...
View ArticleWhat’s In Your Pail?
My father grew up on a farm on a winding back country road in Ohio. His was a large, Catholic, hardworking family. Some of the nine kids got out the first chance they could, the others continuing to...
View ArticleTurn Heated Exchanges into Healing Turning Points
Regardless of our certainty as to whether we or our partner starts or rekindles a quarrel, the real cause of the continuing conflict between us lies elsewhere. Which is why, as strange as the following...
View ArticleFive Relationship Attitudes of Happy Couples
It literally took me two decades to decode the mystery of happy relationships. I am in a relationship that is working for the first time in my life at age 43. I now believe in resilient love – one that...
View ArticleI Got the Boot!
Yup. I got the boot – both literally and metaphorically. I’ll explain . . . Back when I was traveling in Australia I woke up and could barely walk on my right foot. Being the active (and sometimes...
View ArticleA Happiness Paradox for the Holidays: Happiness Doesn’t Always Make Us Feel...
In my study of happiness and human nature, I’m always striving to identify fundamental principles. For instance, I identified the Eight Splendid Truths of Happiness. The First Splendid Truth is: To be...
View ArticleWhy Perception Is Everything
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American novel, The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick reminisces about his father’s advice: “‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the...
View Article2019: Time to Rethink Thinking Positively About Work-Life Resolutions
We’re almost at that time of year to make resolutions for 2019. The majority of my audience is focused on this: Doing what it takes to achieve the work-life synergy they want in 2019. Because despite...
View ArticleIf Nothing Else, Remember That Today, You Are Alive
A few things I’m figuring out about life (may they bring you peace): If I am meant to blossom, then I must nurture the garden that sleeps in me. I must learn to dabble in my interests, carefree,...
View ArticleTen Questions to Find out how Authentic You Are at Work
Someone once suggested I could start blogging about parenting and ways to raise confident children. “What an exciting topic!” – I was telling myself. I could certainly read lots of parenting books and...
View ArticleReturn of the Annual Review! Let’s Do This! (I Mean, If You Want.)
Over the past eight nine ten! years, nothing has helped me to accomplish big goals and stay on track more than a single exercise I complete each December: the Annual Review. Last year I got a little...
View ArticleReplace Excuses with Process
This is the dream of every company: growth. Grow your profits. Grow your customer base. Grow your success. Grow your bank account. But there’s going to be a price to pay. Imagine this: You’re wearing...
View ArticleThink You’re Rational? Think Again.
You are in control of your decisions, right? Barring coercive constraints, you are a thoughtful free agent who, when presented with options, leverages your discretionary free agency to weigh the pros...
View ArticleWhen You Get Through the Big Pain, This Is What Happens: Near-Blinding Radiance.
You will have more to give—and you will LOVE giving it. You will seek to give. It will be the most incredible feeling. Someone is going to come to you with a broken wing, or low on reserves and you are...
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