I just don’t get it. People create brilliant businesses everyday. I mean, they struggle for months or years to put their precious ideas and dreams into a successful product or service and then don’t want to spread the word about it for fear of being self-promotional and heavens forbid, for offending someone along the way [...]
Healthy Mind, Empowering Thoughts and A Dash of Mindfulness
Insight and tips on having a clear, healthy state of mind, through empowering thoughts, regular meditation, and a smart mindset. The posts here delve into overcoming depression, crushing everyday fears, and understanding the thoughts that lead us to unhappiness. They also talk about how you can tap into true motivation through inspiration and understanding your own potential as well as claiming your happiness as important and most of all, announcing yourself as worthy of all the bliss and happiness in this world.
Are you waiting to get a nod of approval from your parents for pursuing a career or a life outside their ideal one for you? Are you hoping to be embraced by your friends about your recent decision to travel the world or choose an unusual lifestyle? Are you expecting a positively happy reaction from [...]
It used to annoy me to no end when people would tell me to have a better attitude. They offered this advice as though it were as simple as flipping a switch. They made it sound like it was something entirely in my control and all I had to do to be happy is to [...]
What have you done with your year and are you pleased with your outcomes? I ask this question of myself every year during December. I swing back and forth between reflecting on the outgoing year and planning for the incoming year. I get obsessed with doing both well. I write out my plans, I analyze [...]
The pursuit of massive wealth can be a wonderful thing, but it is the most beautiful of all when pursued with meaningful work on your own terms. A little over six months ago, I embraced uncertainty like a long-lost friend and walked out of my corporate “career” of some 12 odd years because I could [...]
Have you ever wondered what would happen if your limitations and imperfections, your worries and anxieties, or your doubts and fears, neither mattered nor materialized as you so desperately persist that they do? Just what if …
I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the Astonishing Light of your own Being. ~Hafiz It turns out there is after all a name for that irrational, incessant and intrusive behavior which we so precisely insert between ourselves and success. It doesn’t take a psychology degree to recognize this [...]
Tell me, where do you go for corporate career advice when you need it? Whom do you trust to tell you the truth about how things run behind the corporate walls? In the early years of my 12 year corporate career, I went down a lot of dark alleys; I came up to a lot [...]
There Is No Reason To Do What You Hate There is no reason for you in 2011 to be doing anything that you hate. No reason good enough, no explanation worthy enough that you will want to whisper back to yourself after the sun has set on your youth, your beauty, and your opportunities as [...]
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ~William James You probably even experience the fatigue without knowing the real reason because procrastination is tricky business; it plays on your weaknesses and emotions but has no arm of logic supporting it. Let me prove it to you very simply:
Why I Hadn’t Talked About Financial Freedom as a Smart Habit? Sometimes the most obvious escapes us! Of all the smart habits and rich living ideas and opinions I have shared with you in nearly 300 blog articles, how is it that I have not yet talked about the single most important habit of all, [...]
I had a headache that lasted 3 days. A headache that made it hurt to think, something I like to do all day long, everyday and nonstop. And a headache that brought me face to face with the demon that is better known as stress! During those hours, a lot happened to me but nothing [...]
Knowledge alone cannot always help you move through your fears in life. In fact, knowledge is precisely what we blatantly ignore whilst saying “I know, I know!” in response to the whole world around us. Sometimes, it takes more. Forget knowledge then! Have you ever tried the power of your imagination, which, for all you [...]
Pushing past your limits. Breaking through your boundaries. Crushing all barriers in your way to keep the momentum going. This describes my modus operandi the last few weeks. It’s exhausting, exhilarating … and remarkable as always when I get into these phases. Do you ever feel this way?
I was talking to a super talented, smart, intelligent, and amazing friend of mine the other day – you know, the conversations where you share your deepest fears and desires and then suddenly you hear something that stops you dead on your tracks because it sounds so out of alignment with logic and common sense. [...]
