Category: self-help

 Don’t calm down Get focused.  Channel your nervous energy into something productive.  Use that energy – it’s a valuable lever for creating meaningful change in your life. Anxiety is a useful tool.  In some ways, it’s a gift.  It’s telling you something is not quite right, something needs to change.  Maybe you need to change…

There is no bottom We fool ourselves when we think there’s a bottom we’ll hit when life gets hard.  We lull ourselves into a false comfort that there’s a limit to how far we can fall. Left unchecked, carelessness becomes a slip, which soon becomes a freefall.   Left unchecked, our need to create meaning and…

Be specific Be definite.  Certain.  Explicit.  In your self-talk, and in your connections with others.  Be concise and clear on what you want, and what you’ll do to get it.  Then ask for it.  Ask of yourself.  Ask others.  Ask the universe. Fix in your mind exactly what you want.  Know exactly what you’re willing to…

I prefer to say yes, instead of no, and learn along the way. (Richard Branson) We say no because our curiosity does not outweigh our fear.  Fear that’s too often based on ignorance, misinformation and reliance on faulty conventional wisdom. We become trapped in our own way of thinking, our own way of relating to…

Willpower is for amateurs But you’re a pro. Stop trying to coax yourself.  It’s too tactical, too short term and unsustainable.  Too much like doing an all-nighter for an exam, and later discovering you forgot all you “learned.” You feed your grit, your perseverance by knowing the “why,” and making the right changes to fulfill…

Do it all the time Own what you love to do.  Even on the days when you’re not quite in the mood, maybe pressed for time, maybe tired and bothered.  Do what you love, even on the days when it’s difficult to muster the energy.  Discover how it renews your soul and empowers your life. …