What Are the 7 Keys to Ultimate Self-Acceptance?
What if I proposed that I could provide you with more independence, more joy, more kindness, less fear, improved mental health, a growth mindset, and an increased sense of self-worth? Would you want it? What if I told you that all of this is possible, but the path to this involves self-acceptance. Self-love of the […]
How to Unlearn Fear: Why Fears Are Not Just Passively Forgotten
A Japanese proverb states, “Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” This proverb does a great job of illustrating that fears only exist in our minds and will only grow as much as we allow them to and the essential reason why we must unlearn fear. Fear is a complicated thing. Even though […]
What Is Learned Helplessness and How Do You Overcome It?
Do you know people who never seem to take action to change their negative situations for the better? For example, an alcoholic may repeatedly try and fail to quit drinking. Have you ever felt you had no promising future? Do you ever feel out of control and unable to address the unpredictability of your life? […]
What Does a Healthy and Balanced Life Mean to You?
I recently released an interview on Passion Struck with John R. Miles with the author Susan Cain where we discussed the importance of balancing joy and sorrow, bitter and sweet, and work and life. It got me thinking about what a healthy and balanced life really means. Today, much in our world demands our constant […]
The Science of Learning: It’s Vital For Your Success
In order to learn anything, whether it is math, a foreign language, or how to dribble a soccer ball, you need to create and strengthen pathways in your brain. Think about the first time you tried to kick or throw a ball. Your first time doing it, you didn’t have a pathway for that movement […]
How Do You Create Success? Life Lessons From Barbara Corcoran
We hear the term success all the time, and it carries considerable weight today in society, both in how others perceive our success and how we define it for ourselves. Many people believe they create success by earning a degree, buying a house, a car, or a yacht. It can also be determined by their […]
The Power of Empathy is the Greatest Gift to Human Beings
According to former President Barack Obama, “The biggest problem we have in our society and the world right now is a lack of empathy. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else’s shoes and see the world through their eyes.” The gap that President Obama alludes to is only […]
Cultivating Healthy Esteem: What Are the Ten Keys?
Famous Greek philosopher Epictetus once said, “It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.” At some point in our lives, we’ve all had times when we felt inadequate and imperfect about ourselves, whether due to a physical flaw, how we perceive ourselves, not reaching our goals or a […]
Curiosity Is a Superpower — The Science and Traits of Curious People
A long time ago, there existed a small village named Naïve Hill. The inhabitants of this town were very conventional people who knew only to search around for wildly growing fruits, plants, and nuts, talk, and sleep. They all lived this basic lifestyle except for one teenage boy named Odd George,who had curiosity. His fellow […]
Why Your Peak Experiences Create a Rewarding Life
“I don’t live to work; I work to live.” Although this quote is attributed to Noel Gallager, I first heard this expression years before living in Spain. A Spanish friend told me that he observed this startling difference when comparing our two cultures and what constituted a rewarding life. He said, “you Americans live to […]