October 13, 2008

• Are You Mortgaging Your Happiness?

  In my previous post, I wrote about the someday syndrome - the tendency put things off to some indefinite day in the future.  However, the problem has an even more insidious form. (…)

October 8, 2008

• Do You Suffer From the Someday Syndrome?

  I'll start working out once works slows down a bit.  I'll start saving 10% of my income once I start earning more money.  I'll have more fun when I meet my soul mate. (…)

October 6, 2008

• Why Doing the Wrong Thing is Better Than Doing Nothing At All

  How often do you stop yourself from taking action because you aren't sure you have the right path?  How often does self-doubt cause you to freeze? (…)

September 22, 2008

• The 4 Stages of Learning

  What is underlying structure behind learning? Is there is a common process we go through when learning a new behavior? (…)

September 11, 2008

• How to Put Achievement on Steroids

  Many of the successes in life come from trial and error and learning from repeated failures.  You go after what you want, notice what's not working and make adjustments until you get your desired outcome.  The problem with this is it can take a long time.  A really long time. (…)

September 8, 2008

• How to Squash the Self-Help Junkie Syndrome

  There is a lot of self improvement information out there.  It's a multibillion dollar industry.  It's easy for us to learn a great idea from a book, audio program or seminar and then simply not implement it.  We get excited about it. (…)

September 1, 2008

• A Simple Rule of Thumb for a Successful Life

  If you want to be happy, healthy and successful in life, follow this simple rule: find out what most people are doing and then do the opposite. (…)

August 21, 2008

• How to Intensify Emotional States

  Have you ever had a good feeling that just faded away? Like you were feeling sort of happy but couldn't really get into it. (…)

August 18, 2008

• Fear of Success

  Quite often, when we are afraid of taking action and really going for goals, we believe this hesitation comes from fear of failure, fear of rejection or perfectionism.  However, in many cases, I find that not taking action often stems from a fear of success. (…)

August 11, 2008

• Ian Stephens - Identity of a Wealth Builder

  Ian Stephens is Australia's No: 1 sales specialist and peak performance coach. (…)

August 7, 2008

• 3 Easy Ways to Change Your Emotional State Instantly

  The quality of your life is determined in part by the quality of your emotions.  Part of a good life is feeling good most of the time. (…)

August 6, 2008

• Cultivating an Attitude of Gratitude

  Gratitude.  It's a simple thing that can make the difference between a person who is living a happy life and a person who is living a miserable life even if their circumstances are identical.  Few people are taught the importance of gratitude in living a fulfilling life. (…)

July 31, 2008

• Anthony Robbins - Unleash the Power Within Review

  Over the weekend, from Friday to Monday, I attended Tony Robbins' Unleash the Power Within (UPW) seminar in Toronto. It was a fun event. (…)

July 21, 2008

• Neediness in Relationships

   When neediness rears its ugly head, it can cause people to run the other direction.  Love based on neediness usually doesn't come from a healthy place and can often lead to behavior that ends up smothering relationship. (…)

July 16, 2008

• Giving Your Power Away

   "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -Buddha
  So what exactly does it mean to give your power away?  Giving your power away means to give authority if your own life to something outside of yourself.  This can be a person, an organization or a material object.  It occurs anytime you feel powerless and unable to assert control over your own life. (…)

July 14, 2008

• Building High Self-Esteem

  There is a myriad of books written on the topics of self-esteem.  The advice and suggestions ranges from the commonplace (dress in a way that makes you feel good) to the esoteric (cleanse your chakras).  While some of these tools can be effective for certain individuals, there is an inherent problem in that many approaches try to build a person up (which operates from the assumption that they are defective) as opposed to realizing that people are inherently worthy and simply helping them realize that fact. (…)

June 23, 2008

• How to Master Money & Wealth | Clean Up Your Limiting Beliefs About Money

  In spite of our parents best intentions we all tend to get a lot of garbage put in our brains while growing up.  Some of it comes from them, some from our teachers and some from the media.  If you haven't taken the time to clean the garbage out of your head, chances are your results in life aren't at the level that they could be. (…)

June 11, 2008

• Cognitive Distortions

  We all have fallacious ways of thinking that result in us drawing incorrect and often limiting conclusions.  To some extent, these mistakes are inevitable as our map of reality is inherently fallible. (…)

June 10, 2008

• Reordering Perception to Preserve the Map

  As a continuation of yesterday`s post, The Map is Not the Territory, today I will discuss the phenomenon of reordering perception to preserve the map. (…)

June 9, 2008

• The Map is Not the Territory

  In NLP (neurolinguistic programming) one of foundational presuppositions is the map is not the territory.  When applied to ourselves, this means that our perception of the world (our map) is not reality (the territory). (…)