I haven’t read Quitter by Jon Acuff and after my client mentioned it to me by sharing a passage from the book, I am pretty glad I did not see it when I was on the verge of leaving my corporate hell in May of 2011. Without reading the book, it is not fair to pass judgment but from that single passage, I’m pretty sure I won’t be reading so best not to talk so much about Quitter as to talk about what I think you should do when it comes to quitting or not quitting your cushy job. Hurry and Read the rest of this post!

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Welcome back to Episode #42 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is on Episode 42 – Falling in Love with Your Failures. I know that you know they are a part of the journey and that you need to accept them and get over them and move on and keep going. Yes, we know all of that but I want to talk to you today about something else -I want to push you even further and suggest that you fall IN LOVE with your failures. Hurry and Read the rest of this post!

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“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
Steve Jobs

For as long as I can remember, I have been hungry and restless.

And seeing how it is human nature not to like your own “nature”, no pun intended, I have been deeply envious of those who are the opposite of this: grounded, settled, relaxed, content, and at peace with the process of life.

But maybe, just maybe, restless and hungry are conditions from which we all suffer silently in the windmills of our minds and in the sanctum of our hearts. Maybe we just learn to hide it as we grow up and grow older, and learn to go with the flow because, well, what sense does it make to go against the flow? Hurry and Read the rest of this post!

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Episode 41 of The Daily Interaction: Eliminating What’s Not Working

The Daily Interaction

Welcome back to Episode #41 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is on Eliminating What’s Not Working of The Daily Interaction podcast. Can you take a moment to scan your interactions and communications and see what’s not working – what is something that you keep doing that’s not serving you well anymore and before [...]

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On Celebrating Progress and Not Heeding Persian Myths

For the Soul

There is a superstition in the Iranian culture so integral to the belief system that you simply take it on as fact, lest you fall victim to its wrath. It is the notion that you never, ever,

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Episode 40 of the Daily Interaction: Communicating without Your Voice

The Daily Interaction

Welcome back to Episode #40 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is on Episode 40 – Communicating without Your Voice. How do you continue to communicate and interact with the world around you when you have totally and completely LOST your voice? That’s what happened to me this week and that’s our topic for [...]

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Green Juicing Intensive Clinic: Make Juicing Your New Hot Sexy Habit

For the Heart

October 1st, 2007 was a day that changed the course of my health forever. I still remember how I was floating from excitement of having discovered something that is so drastically different from everything I knew about health and yet SO natural, such common sense, so perfect, such genius, and oh so accessible to me [...]

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Episode 39 of The Daily Interaction: 2 Ultimate Relaxing Techniques

The Daily Interaction

Welcome back to Episode #39 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is on Episode 39 – The 2 Ultimate Relaxing Techniques. How do you relax and get grounded before every interaction and why this is so important. If you are nervous or stressed when you go into a conversation or into an interaction, it [...]

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Sleep Hacking: A 21-Day 4:30am Early Rising Challenge

For the Soul

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. Jelaluddin Rumi, 13th century mystic poet. Why I Wanted to Become an Early Riser Always start your smart habits with why. Your reasons to do something is unique [...]

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Episode 38 of The Daily Interaction: Bring Your Intention to Every Interaction

The Daily Interaction

Welcome back to Episode #38 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is on Bringing Your Intention to Every Interaction of The Daily Interaction podcast. How do you set an intention, what is an intention versus a goal, and what does this all have to do with your daily exchanges and interactions? I talk to [...]

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Travel with Confidence: How to End Your Excuses and Go

Motivation

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ~Anais Nin Growing up in Iran was an interesting experience. The word travel in Farsi is ‘Safar’, and the stories still ring in my ears about so-and-so’s ‘Safar’ to such and such place. I remember during my childhood, the grownups would [...]

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Episode 37 of the Daily Interaction: Moving Through Your Doubts and Insecurities

The Daily Interaction

Welcome back to Episode #37 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is on The Second Rule of Confidence: Moving Through Your Doubts and Insecurities. Do you believe, as I do, that we are all born confident, but we manage to hide that confidence over the years with layers of doubt, fear, insecurities – or [...]

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Discover Your Higher Self: Get Your 21-Step Confidence Building Series

For the Heart

Spring is here. The mornings are crisp. The breeze is intoxicating. The trees show off a lushness and richness that is a feast to the eyes, even if you have seen it a thousand times before. And life is good, very good indeed, despite anything and everything that you may have going on. All it [...]

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Trading in Your Insecurity and Doubt for Self-Confidence: 8 Starter Tips

For the Mind

There are days that I look at myself and wonder how – just how – I summoned this unabashed, undaunted, unstoppable soaring confidence to keep me the most loyal company day and night, rain or sunshine, good or bad days. How did I manage to quiet the constant chatter of those fears and insecurities and [...]

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Episode 36 of the Daily Interaction: The First Rule of Confidence – Love Thyself

The Daily Interaction

Welcome back to Episode #36 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is on The First Rule of Confidence: Love Thyself. That’s right. We talk about love today, baby, so listen up. Loving yourself is one of the most fundamental parts of becoming a confident person, and that plays a huge role in your interactions, [...]

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The Power of Positive Thinking: 22 Thoughts to Change Your Life

For the Mind

“We are each responsible for all of our experiences.” Louise Hay In my lovely Iranian culture, I grew up seeing the terrible impact of this mindset around me all the time: Some people, they would say, were born lucky and others, well, not so lucky. I would hear grown ups talk about how “lucky” this [...]

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Episode 35 of the Daily Interaction: 10 Phrases to Ban from Your Vocabulary

The Daily Interaction

Welcome back to Episode #35 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is on 10 Phrases to Ban from Your Vocabulary. I talk to you about the negative, opposing, yet seemingly innocent thoughts and phrases that we use without even knowing or thinking about them and their underlying impact every single time. I want to [...]

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My 5-Day Juice Fast Experience PLUS A Green Juicing Intensive Program

For the Body

In January (2012), I embarked on another 5-day juice fast with my friend and partner in crime, Arvind Devalia. In this blog post, I recount the highlights of my fast, and how it was so different from my first 5-day juice fast recounted here. Then I will tell you about my decision to bring a [...]

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Episode 34 of the Daily Interaction: Top 8 Healthy Ways to Interact with Yourself

The Daily Interaction

Welcome back to Episode #34 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is Top 8 Healthy Interactions with Yourself. We examine the nature of our relationship with ourselves, and talk about how we can interact far more effectively, lovingly and positively with ourselves by integrating these 8 healthy ways. The greatest relationship of all starts [...]

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Elimination: Clearing the Path to Your Success

For the Mind

Elimination is the greatest hidden secret to unleashing your energy and clearing the path to your success. It turns out, as I’ve learned through my usual string of mistakes, that adding often does not add much at all. It’s in subtracting – in removing, in eliminating – that we get closer to our real place [...]

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Episode 33 of the Daily Interaction: 5 Ways to Be Both Savvy & Sincere in Business

The Daily Interaction

Welcome back to Episode #33 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is how to be both savvy and sincere in business – both in your own business, or your job, or your personal life and social circles. This was inspired by my good friend, Leslie Samuel, who was the fresh voice introducing the show [...]

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Beyond Fitness and Weight-Loss: The Miracles of Exercise

For the Body

What if you could transform your life with a natural, accessible, and powerful solution that really works? What if the answer to your questions and your struggles was simpler? What if you could put a mini-revolution into your body AND your business or career? The miracles of exercise, baby, are revolutionary if you are willing [...]

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Episode 32 of the Daily Interaction: Smarter Communication with Intuition

The Daily Interaction

Welcome back to Episode #32 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is how to use intuition and your gut feel for smart interactions and communications. If you have never tuned into your intuition, you are in for a treat! Guess Who is the Fresh Voice This Episode: So starting today, I am introducing new [...]

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How to Treat Your Blog as a Business Not A Hobby

For the Mind

How do you clearly send a message to the world, aside from printing it on your forehead or on the front page of your blog, that you are running a business as a blogger and that, as fun as it may be, you are not just in it for the fun, (unless you are of [...]

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Episode 31 of the Daily Interaction: How to Answer the Baby Question?

The Daily Interaction

Welcome back to Episode #31 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is how respond to and interact with the inevitable baby or children question that is either implied or direct, if you have opted out of the procreation process for now or altogether. So if you don’t want to have babies,

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