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Attention attention discipline focus mindset purpose Feb 17, 2025

It’s like learning to drive a car or land an airplane: you look well ahead of the car or down the runway because you are going to end up where you are looking. Don’t believe me? Try to...

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Happiness Concepts do the right thing happiness mindset peace purpose Feb 10, 2025

I have written hundreds of thousands of words about mindset, and how it can provide you with hardcore happiness - a long-lasting sense of well-being and satisfaction. If you follow my work, you...

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Protect Your Peace mental health mindset peace physical health wellbeing Feb 03, 2025

Life can be chaotic, unpredictable and dangerous. There are no guarantees and frequently no warnings. Breakups happen, jobs end, relocation becomes necessary. Fortunes rise and fall. Sickness....

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Be A Good Person actions character integrity mindset success Jan 27, 2025

Be a good person even when you don’t feel like it. Especially when you don’t feel like it.

You have a choice in how you react to your life situations - choose to do the right thing.

What...

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Pillars of Happiness discipline happiness mindset purpose success Jan 20, 2025

Here’s something that took me a long time to realize. There is a technique, a practice that can bring and sustain happiness.

It’s easy to be happy when everything is going well, not so...

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Do The Work actions happiness meaning purpose work Jan 13, 2025

It’s why you’re here. The work, that is. We probably should call it The Work; it’s that important. And it is just as important that you do the work, once you are clear on what...

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Mindset Matters actions discipline happiness mindset purpose Jan 06, 2025

What do you want?

More money? The answer is mindset.

A nicer house, a better car, a better job? The answer is mindset.

Want to move to a different town, different country? Want to be your own boss?...

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Wonderful World consciousness diversity gratitude joy purpose Dec 30, 2024

I am sitting here in my favorite coffee shop, thinking and writing as I do every morning, but today is different. I am experiencing a slightly altered state of consciousness; a quiet and serene...

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Be Enough happiness mindset purpose responsibility strength Dec 23, 2024

True psychospiritual growth entails periods of pain and isolation. Focused introspection will allow you to learn from the situation and move forward. You will need to be self-disciplined,...

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Emotional Intelligence emotional intelligence mindset motivation purpose success Dec 16, 2024

A Practical Guide to Unlock Fulfillment and Personal Growth

In the decades I have used my professional training in clinical psychology and clinical hypnosis to help individuals achieve profound...

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Courage belief courage fear mindset motivation trust Dec 09, 2024

Life is uncertain. We constantly encounter situations that are out of our control and for which we are unprepared. Worse yet, our actions sometimes - in spite of our best efforts -  result in...

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Define Yourself authenticity focus life meaning purpose self-definition Dec 02, 2024

You can define yourself. It’s a choice, not manifest destiny. This regularly comes as a complete shock to the people with whom I work, in both principle and the degree to which it is true.

You...

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Giving Thanks gratitude mental health mindset motivation physical health Nov 24, 2024

Thanksgiving may be a uniquely American holiday, but the act of giving thanks has positive universal impact. I routinely see comments to the effect of, “Gratitude is like ‘thoughts and...

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Uncomfortable Truth communication control happiness mindset relationships Nov 18, 2024

If you regularly follow my work, you know that the unifying theme of my writing is a concept I call Hardcore Happiness. It is an uncomfortable truth that you must have discipline and exert some...

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Pick Your Hard choice discipline entrepreneurship happiness purpose Nov 12, 2024

Turns out you just have to pick your hard.

Sitting around all day, doing nothing and having no purpose and wondering why you’re here at all is hard.

Trying your best and being consistently...

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