The Biggest Roadblock to Your Success
You’re a creative person. You know you have gifts to give to the world. You have knowledge you want to share. You’ve got something in the back of your mind that you’ve been dreaming of doing. Maybe it’s writing a book, learning a new language, or starting a business on…
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Immediate Confidence Boost — Better Than Slipping On Your Skinny Jeans
“You are so beautiful… I just had to tell you.” I said this to a gal at the gym the other day… because it was true. What an incredible impact it had — on both of us! After a moment of shock, she accepted my sincerity. It was clear she…
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The Underrated, Essential Art of Coping
You might think that when someone says, “I’m coping,” that it’s not such a big deal. You’d be wrong. The skill of coping is highly underrated, and our inability to cope with difficult feelings can lead to major problems, including health problems, financial ruin, work procrastination, even death. Not such…
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How to See Opportunities Where Others See Obstacles
The story of Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg is the story of a central truth of history: that strength often becomes a weakness and weakness can be transformed into strength. The great strategist Saul Alinsky believed that if you “push a negative hard enough and deep enough it will break…
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Why You Should Start at the Bottom
The year was 1999. The scene was the computer lab in the Kinesiology building at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. I remember it was a bitterly cold January day. Big fat snowflakes were falling gently outside. It was just me and Andrew in the computer lab. He was the…
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Why You Should Be Pessimistic
To most people, philosophy is some confusing academic enterprise that’s of little practical use. When they want to make their lives better, they don’t turn to the ancients, they look to self-help gurus and how-to manuals. Which is funny because philosophy, in its truest most classical form, is actually civilization’s…
READ MORE4 Steps to Setting Your Own Rules — And Keeping Them!
Google “rules to live by” and you’re met with hundreds of thousands of search results. Those results are countless “do and don’ts” for business, life, health, relationships… but how do you know which rules to follow? With so much information available online, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed — and when…
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Don’t Just Set Goals — Achieve Them
As one famous book title put it, If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, You’ll Probably End Up Somewhere Else. As a society, we love setting goals and making plans. The practice of coming up with resolutions and plans for self-improvement is one reason New Year’s Eve is such a…
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The Secret to Prolific Art
Barbara Cartland broke the world record — in 1983, she wrote 23 novels. She was 82 years old. Two novels a month that year. Altogether she wrote 723 published novels. Her last at age 97. When she died a year later there were 160 unpublished novels still waiting to be published.…
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How to Control Your Day
When my father passed away in the fall of 2008, I was reminded of the power of rituals and routines. Each afternoon when I’d get home from high school I’d head up to my room to change my clothes for my after-school job. Before turning into my bedroom at the top…
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5 Steps to Escape Your Mental Prison
I received the most wonderful phone call today from a client. I tell you in a minute why she called, but first here’s her story… maybe you can relate: Katie had struggled for years with her diet, self-worth, and damaging internal monologue. She, like so many of us, had mistakenly…
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About Your Dreams and Desires
We need to get honest here. We need to talk about your beliefs. We need to be frank about your hunger. We need to get clear about your dreams and desires. You need to take a good hard look at your actions and ask if these actions are in alignment…
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