
What to Realize When You Think You Don’t Matter By Melissa Lopez
“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.” ~Hafiz of Shiraz

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.” ~Hafiz of Shiraz

It’s never too late to reinvent yourself. Change means reinvention. “You’re never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.”~ C. S. Lewis

“Do it with passion or not at all.” ~Rosa Couchette Carey
If you’ve ever had a passion for something, you are probably well aware of the peaks and valleys that are natural side effects of pursuing the thing you love most.

It doesn’t matter how you choose to live your life — whether you build a business or work a corporate job; have children or choose not to have children; travel the world or live in the same town all of your life; go to the gym 5 times a week or sit on the couch every night — whatever you do, someone will judge you for it. There will always be haters and difficult people.

Discipline – How to avoid a life of regret. What is Self-Discipline?
Simply put: Getting yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them whether you feel like it or not.

“You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy, then you should sit for an hour.” ~Ancient Zen proverb

Every person in the world has perfectionist tendencies, but only some of us realize it. Fewer still recognize the profound negativity that perfectionism has on our lives.
~ Stephen Guise
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“Do it with passion or not at all.” ~Rosa Couchette Carey
If you’ve ever had a passion for something, you are probably well aware of the peaks and valleys that are natural side effects of pursuing the thing you love most.

Many of us talk about the discrepancy between a photo on social media and reality in relation to loneliness.

Signs That You’re Successful In Life Even If You Don’t Feel Like It. What is your personal measure of success?

Evan Carmichael explains how we all have one word that defines our life. When we find it, and live by it, the quality of our life changes.

Maybe you feel angry regularly. You’re irritable, short-tempered and grouchy. Maybe you snap (or want to snap) at everyone around you — because your anger feels like a tsunami. It’s bound to crash into something…

Read BLOG: The Ego vs. Your True Self By Saratoga Ocean. WAKE UP! Stop Allowing Your EGO to Hide Your True Self

“Money is numbers. And numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.” ~Bob Marley

How do today’s parents cope when the dreams we had for our children clash with reality? What can we do for our twenty- and even thirty-somethings who can’t seem to grow up? How can we help our depressed, dependent, or addicted adult children?

Dear Parent Blamer, Firstly let me say, stop it. It’s pathetic and pointless. And for the rest of us innocent bystanders… very annoying. ~ Craig Harper

“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.” ~ G. K. Chesterton

“The emotional wounds and negative patterns of childhood often manifest as mental conflicts, emotional drama, and unexplained pains in adulthood.” ~Unknown

“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have is not permanent.” ~Jean Kerr
Here’s the thing no one tells you about dating—it sucks. The uncertainty, the inconsistency, the stress. Dating has always been easy for me. Or so I thought.

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.” — Unknown.
I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked.

12 Simple Steps to Overcome Overthinking
What is holding people back from the life that they truly want to live?
I’d say that one very common and destructive thing is that they don’t know how to stop overthinking.
They overthink every little problem until it becomes bigger and scarier than it actually is. They overthink positive things until they don’t look so positive anymore (and as the anxiety starts to build).

Millions of Americans are sleepy. I’m talking about consistently tired, where it’s something they’re dealing with multiple days per week.

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” ~ Lao Tzu.

Read BLOG: The Ego vs. Your True Self By Saratoga Ocean. WAKE UP! Stop Allowing Your EGO to Hide Your True Self