Posts tagged Psychotherapy

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 [...]

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 [...]

3 Ways To Get Schooled Without Getting Hurt

“To Get Schooled” is to learn something, generally the hard way. As in you got “schooled” in life. Often, we find ourselves at the learning end of life’s lessons, struggling to determine what happened. How did we get here? Why are we here? And what can we do about it?
Life is, indeed, the opportunity for [...]

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 [...]

We Are All Naked! (under our clothes)

It amazes me in my life coaching practice how often I come across the following scenario:
Client: I’m feeling confused/angry/blocked/depressed because (insert circumstance here). I’ll never be able to change/finish this/move on/be happy/etc.
Me: There are a lot of tools out there that have worked for lots of people. Perhaps we can try some together?
Client: Well, we [...]

Why Do You Have To Be So Negative All The Time?

The Power of Positive Thinking is not just about embracing the positive, it is about accepting the negative. Time Magazine recently reported that when we acknowledge our negative thoughts, they cease to have pwoer over us. We become less reactive and more in control.
Unfortunately, most cognitive psychologists out there would have us believe that we [...]