Posts tagged Positive mental attitude

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 [...]

3 Ways To Survive The Holidays

Holidays

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 [...]

Stop Thinking, Start Living

Spiritual tools are great. I use them everyday. But the truth is that believing requires action, not thinking.
Sure, meditation is great. But service and action is better.
If you’re thinking about your life and how to change, here’s an idea. Don’t think about how to change your life, just start living the life you’re meant to [...]

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 [...]

10 Ways to Change Your Life Today

What you think about, you become. What you think about, your life becomes. What you are exposed to, you think about.
So, if you aren’t the person you’d like to be, or if your life isn’t the life you want, then how do you go about changing it? The first step is to change what you [...]

Twitter is the New Gratitude Journal

Everyone who practices “The Secret” (The Law of Attraction) and those who teach about it acknowledge the practice of keeping a Gratitude Journal. The process of writing everything you are grateful for everyday is a very powerful way to tap into the universe’s abundance and prosperity in real and meaningful ways.
Twitter is the latest and [...]

The Difference Between Positive Thinking and Positive Focus

I was talking with a friend at lunch yesterday. Her phone buzzed with a text message. The message was one of those “send this on to 10 of your friends or suffer the consequences” sorts of things. I laughed. She did not.
You see, the message had created a death spiral of negative thinking in her. [...]

2 Experiments You Have To Try Now

I’m always searching for easy ways to integrate simple, practical spiritual tools in to my everyday life. And I love that you are along for the ride. Here are two experiments you can try this week and see what affects it has in your life. After you try them, please post your results here. Let [...]

Welcome to the Positive.

What Channel Are You Watching? It’s a question we should ask ourselves more often. It’s easy to be in the middle of our day somewhere and realize that we’ve spent so much time worrying about other people’s lives–the car who cut us off in traffic, the person on the cell phone while we were waiting [...]