We’ve heard time and again that attitude is everything.
In a world that’s becoming less black-and-white every day, one seemingly littered with contradictions, can it be true that there’s one simple answer to the question of how to improve our lives?
I think not! There’s more to life than attitude.
As a small business owner, this is also the perfect time of year to make a list of resolutions of things you can do to help grow your business in the coming year. Think of it as reinforcing your business plan -– or in some cases, rewriting your business plan to take advantage of new opportunities.
Oftentimes, we buy what the “experts” have to say… literally, we pull out our credit cards, and we buy the magic pill or solution because we really believe it will help. But other times, we stop and ask ourselves, “Why am I listening to this person?
When I think of the old paradigm – my old, ill-conceived, self-taught definition of success (that success means money, wealth, status, and power) – I am reminded of an old parable that goes something like this:
Who is the Successful Man?
One day a wealthy father took his son on a trip to the country so that the son could see how the poor lived. They spent a day and a night at the farm of a very poor family. When they got back from their trip, the father asked his son, “How was the trip?”
I had a great conversation last night with Kristen Hallows on her internet radio show: Job You Deserve Radio.
If you’re addicted to adventure, challenge, and achievement, or even if you aren’t, you’ll love my article published at The American Chronicle.
New Year’s Reolutions: many of us make them, and many of us fail to complete them?
Why is this? What can we do to enhance our chances of affecting the change we desire?
Sometimes in life you just have to give up. That may seem like a pretty absurd statement from a professional coach and lifestyle mentor, but I think it’s the most important advice I ever got, and the most important thing I can share with a client who’s facing something that is just not humanly possible.
Do you make your own choices or are you constantly letting what other do dictates how you decide? There is a post at Dumb Little
One of my favorite quotes is Carlos Castaneda’s:
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
I love this quote because it reminds me of how hard I used to work, just because I believed that working that hard would make me happy. It didn’t, and I think that if work was going to make me happy, eighty to one hundred hours a week should have done it.
by David B. Bohl Dr. Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard professor of psychology, has done some ground-breaking and very intriguing research into the science of happiness.
I’m always amazed at what people say about themselves sometimes, and how that really contrasts with what they do. What’s the quote? Something about what you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.
That sentiment means so much to me, because I know that in spite of wanting to be generous, patient, compassionate, and thoughtful, I am often selfish, impatient, intolerant and closed-minded.
There sometimes seems to be a backlash in our culture against people who value their spiritual lives and try to improve their spiritual state. In effect, the idea seems to be that smart people aren’t spiritual; that people who are spiritual are somehow stupid enough to be “gulled” into believing something that obviously can’t be true. I really have a problem with this outlook for four reasons:
The main obstacle that gets in the way of most people changing how they want to change is that they cannot determine exactly how to
We all deal with change, well or poorly, every day. The challenge for most of is not so much that we have change to deal with, but how well we manage it. Managing change well means less stress, less work, and more time to feel content, joyful, and fulfilled.
I am often asked: “How do I let go of my obsession with money and instead focus on my quality of life?” I answer this
Very few things are simple, and the more we try to simplify our thinking into this/that, black/white, good/bad, the worse we’re going to make our lives, because life just isn’t like that. We’re not like that, no one is like that, and no one ever will be.
One of the most freeing things we can learn in our lives is that it is okay to not be liked by everyone. When we
