Positive Thinking

Happiness Doesn’t Happen By Accident

I’m amazed at how often I encounter unhappy people on a daily basis. In the grocery store, at the movies, in a restaurant, and around town. And yet, just as often in those very same places, I encounter people who are happy.
What’s the difference? What magic formula have the happy people found that the unhappy [...]

8 Weeks To Personal Prosperity

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Many of my coaching clients have been asking me to do a special, low-cost class to help people achieve personal prosperity in their own lives. And so I put together this 8 Weeks To Personal Prosperity program with my friends at edufire.
Starting on January 8th, for 8 weeks, you’ll join a very small group of [...]

3 Ways To Survive The Holidays

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The holidays can be tough for most everyone. It seems that the time for us to celebrate being with family and friends–the time to create “Peace on Earth”–is also the time of the year that creates the most stress. Why is this?
It seems that the stress comes from inside. We set up expectations for ourselves [...]

Three Things We All Do

I’m constantly amazed by my interactions with people. It seems the vast majority of us don’t realize that we are so similar to other people. Instead, we think that whatever we’re going through, however we’re thinking and acting… that somehow we’re completely unique in that. We’re not that unique. Human beings, it seems, are very [...]

The Creation Game

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I’ve joined this little online game from Evolution Ezine. It’s called The Creation Game and it seems rather fun. The idea is to take the Law of Attraction and turn it into something fun and light-hearted for some entertainment. Let’s see how it goes. If you’re playing along too, feel free to drop a little [...]

The Power Of A Coach

OK, so you know that I normally don’t shamelessly promote my coaching business here on the blog, but I wanted to share a few success stories with you. Coaches really do make a difference in people’s lives.
One of my clients has really been struggling balancing work and play. Over the course of many months, she [...]

Who’s your mirror?

It seems when I see other people, I categorize them into people I identify with and people who annoy me.
Deepak Chopra has a great exercise. He says to take a sheet of paper and make a list of all of the people you really like, admire, respect, and love in the world. Then write down [...]

The World Famous Sailboat Method

A while back I mentioned a meditative technique called The Sailboat Method. There are times when you just want to stop the constant barrage of thoughts in your ever-rushing stream of consciousness. Science shows us that our brains work through a process of seemingly random electro-chemical impulses. It is a process that we do not [...]

A Day Away

Maya Angelou writes in her book, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now, about something she calls “A Day Away”. The idea is simple: take a break from the world for an entire day. The results are often profound.
The process is simple.
1. Select a day. Put it on your calendar. Let people know you will [...]

3 Things You Need To Do To Live The Life Of Your Dreams

Are you living the life of your dreams? If so, you can completely skip this post and move on to other things with your life.  But, if you feel like your life isn’t quite what you want it to be, perhaps these tips can help.
1. Know what your dreams are.
In my coaching practice, I am [...]