Being Busy
The Myth Behind Why Being Busy Makes You Feel Important by Heather Picard
“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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Career Advisor
Leadership Excellence – A Model for Sustained Success By Dr. Philip A. Iannuzzi, Jr. (Retired Colonel, U.S. Air Force)
“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.
Change
If Technology Connects People Why Are People Lonelier Than Ever
Many of us talk about the discrepancy between a photo on social media and reality in relation to loneliness.
Change
5 Signs That You Are Successful Even Though You Don’t Feel Like It
Signs That You’re Successful In Life Even If You Don’t Feel Like It. What is your personal measure of success?
Change
What Is Your One Word? This Principle Will Change Your Life!
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.
Anger
Angry All the Time for No Reason? This Might Be Why
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…
Change
7 Awesome Things That Happened When I Started Surfing
Read BLOG: The Ego vs. Your True Self By Saratoga Ocean. WAKE UP! Stop Allowing Your EGO to Hide Your True Self
Adult Wounds
How Unhealed Childhood Wounds Wreak Havoc in Our Adult Lives By Marlena Tillhon-Haslam
“The emotional wounds and negative patterns of childhood often manifest as mental conflicts, emotional drama, and unexplained pains in adulthood.” ~Unknown
Hijacking Your Mind
How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind By Tristan Harris
“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.
Inspiration
Why You’re Overthinking Everything By Henrik Edberg
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).
Comparing Yourself
Stop Comparing Your Life to Someone Else’s Highlight Reel By Henrik Edberg
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” ~ Lao Tzu.
Change
The Ego vs. Your True Self By Saratoga Ocean
Read BLOG: The Ego vs. Your True Self By Saratoga Ocean. WAKE UP! Stop Allowing Your EGO to Hide Your True Self
Confidence
4 Practical Tips for Staying Positive
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.
Affirmation
20 of The Most Powerful Affirmations Of All Time
“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
Affirmation
How to Find the Courage to Quit Your Unfulfilling Job By Maria Stenvinkel
Choose to live by design instead of by default. Fear regret rather than failure. Take risks for what you will gain long-term.
Inspiration
The Law of Attraction – How to Attract Positive Outcomes in Your Life By Kelli Cooper
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.
Inspiration
Stop Taking Things So Personal By Abigail Brenner M.D.
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.
Change
We Each Get to Decide What Success Means for Ourselves By Orit Wittenberg
“In this world, an ordinary life has become synonymous with a meaningless life.” ~Brené Brown
Busy
The Workaholic Syndrome By Barbara Killinger, Ph.D.
Fear of Discovery. Faulty obsessional thinking results in serious errors in judgment, efficiency suffers, and anxious workaholics behavior.
Confidence
Unleash Your Inner B.A.D.A.S.S. — Changing Core Beliefs That Hold You Back by John Krasinski
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.
Being Busy
How To Avoid Burnout When The Going Gets Rough By Alex Bratty
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…?
Confidence
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
Confidence
Stop Over-Thinking By Henrik Edberg
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.
Inner Child
How Your Inner-Child Controls Your Life By Amaya Pryce
“The cry we hear from deep in our hearts comes from the wounded child within. Healing this inner child’s pain is the key to transforming anger, sadness, and fear.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh
We all have a wounded inner child. Recently, my wounded child was hurt that my sister hadn’t called or texted me for several weeks. It seems like I’m always the one who has to reach out to her, and my wounded child feels like she doesn’t really care about me.
