
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.

“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
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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

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

“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).

“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

I appreciate how we can laugh at ourselves and with one another while the world rapidly changes around us…or, ‘when everything not nailed down is comin’ loose…as someone said about something, one time…it’s what helps us stay positive.

“Every thought you think and every word you speak is an affirmation. All of our self-talk, our internal dialogue, is a stream of affirmations. You’re using affirmations every moment whether you know it or not. You’re affirming and creating your life experiences with every word and thought.” ∼ Louise Hay

Choose to live by design instead of by default. Fear regret rather than failure. Take risks for what you will gain long-term.

While there is no one tool that every person ‘must’ use in their personal development work, or to aid in energetic transformation so you can get your much desired ‘stuff,’ I am a huge proponent of meditation, and I recommend everyone at least give it a fair shake to see if something clicks.

Learning how to hold your space and keep your power.
As social beings, we define who we are, in part, by and through the relationships we have. Most of us interact with an assortment of people every day, from our most intimate relationships to strangers on the street. Obviously, how involved we are with certain individuals will color the level and intensity of our interactions with them.

“In this world, an ordinary life has become synonymous with a meaningless life.” ~Brené Brown

Fear of Discovery. Faulty obsessional thinking results in serious errors in judgment, efficiency suffers, and anxious workaholics behavior.

Introducing an official *unofficial* acronym for BADASS. Since starting my blog, I have found that I pull inspiration from some of the strangest places—one of which is the TV show, The Office.

Do you feel overwhelmed or stretched thin sometimes? Everyone suffers burnout at some point. Keep reading to discover some simple ways to stop it before it gets out of hand.
Burnout is real and it sucks. Does any of this sound familiar…?