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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Discipline is necessary for just about anything in life, from getting up in the morning to achieving lofty goals. My own experience, in my personal life and from working with others, is that there...
The line of people who don’t want to be happier is the shortest line in the world. When you ask why they want to be rich, to be famous, to have freedom, to generally do well in their lives,...
The crux is the central point, the main reason. No matter what you look at, it all comes back to this. People spend their whole lives trying to make money. What do they really want from that money?...
This week I want to do something a bit different from my usual articles. I want to give you a peek into part of my own journey, in the hope that it may help you with yours. I want to talk to you...
This week’s article is in response to a reader’s question: “What are some tools to help us be aware of our habitual choices and improve upon them?” This is a great question...
We all have daily stressors; it’s part of life. That’s NOT what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about those days when there are so many issues coming at you so fast that...
It’s hot and it’s dry and the wind is blowing, hard. On summer days like this, the Great American Southwest feels like God’s own hairdryer. No place feels quite right and nobody...
In my last article, I compared the occasionally severe emotional turbulence of life to an out-of-control spin in an airplane; a situation that can be fatal if left uncorrected. The analogy still...
There is an event in aviation called a “flat spin.” This is a sudden and chaotic loss of control in which the aircraft remains level but begins to rapidly rotate around its axis, like a...
