“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers The hardest thing about earning money is holding on to it. The second hardest thing is using that money in ways that add real value to our lives. We’re not
Actions and Outcomes, It’s All About Consequences
Actions always produce outcomes! Embracing this one fundamental truth has the power to completely change your reality. Regardless of your current circumstances, you can start recreating your reality right now by getting crystal clear about the law of consequences. I am not exaggerating when I say that you can radically simplify the whole concept of creating a better reality for yourself by making one simple change in the way you run your life. Always consider the consequences of your actions. Is that something you would you be willing to try? Before you say yes, I’d like to tell you a little story. Don’t expect something for nothing There was once a poor exchange student who rented a room above a fancy restaurant…
Build Your Life
One of the themes that I hear – and has just come up again in comments – which makes breakups much harder to recover from is when someone has made their partner their life. They don’t have many friends, have … Continue reading →
Weddings and Depression – How to Beat the Wedding Bell Blues
Weddings and depression are not two words you naturally put together. But the past few years have seen an increase in the number of newlyweds seeking help for a problem once rarely discussed – post wedding blues. No matter how great the love, how perfect the wedding day, or how blissful the honeymoon, depression sets in, …
Enlightening Talks: 12 Virtues of Aristotle – Benchmarks For Masculinity
Aristotle conceives of ethical theory as a field distinct from the theoretical sciences. Its methodology must match its subject matter—good action—and must respect the fact that in this field many generalizations hold only for the most part. We study ethics in order to improve our lives, and therefore its principal concern is the nature of … Related posts: How Ancient Philosophy Can Make You Fall in Love with Truth in 3 Easy Steps From Knowledge
9 Tips to Help You Get Your Team on the Bus
Here are some best practices that I’ve learned working with various teams. These are strategies to overcome adversity, build positive teams, create a positive culture and more. 1. First it’s essential to have your team read the book and really make sure they read it. Mark Richt, the head coach of the…
Look beyond….
If you’re looking for the next big thing, And you’re looking where everyone else is, you’re looking in the wrong place. – Mark Cuban Think. Look beyond your boundaries. Do what you love, what you do so well – and do it with your special twist. Make it different. Move away from the pack. You are unique, so figure out how to showcase your creativity, your skills, your extraordinary value to the world. Play to your strengths, play by your plans, your rules. It is, after all, your wonderful life. The post Look beyond…. appeared first on Healthy Mind Heart Body.
The Personal Growth benefits of Goal Setting
When you think of successful goal setting, what kind of picture comes to mind? Do you see yourself with all the things that accompany wealth like a luxury home and fancy car? Do you think of the respect and prestige you’ll receive once you finally make your mark on the world? Or perhaps you imagine the sense of pride you’ll experience when your accomplishments are acknowledged by those who doubted you. Certainly, successful goal setting can bring all of those benefits and more. But as …
The End of Experiences
The spiritual path can sometimes be cut up into three segments. The first is very well understood and tread. It is the space of spiritual knowledge and intellectual learning about the path. It can be full of rote memorization and basic rituals, and it provides many people with a sense of comfort to know what to think and do to live a "good" life.The second part is usually dropped into the purview of the …
The Worst Exit Lines of All Time
I’m cribbing off Goldi’s comments in the “Sometimes it’s just not it” post. Many times someone is saying sweet things to ASSUAGE THEIR OWN GUILT…let me just get rid of this person…without drama. I know I’ve done it. I’ve let … Continue reading →
Volunteering – 5 Reasons Why It Really Does Help Depression
“Give to others”. Sound like Sunday School advice? Think again. Give to others is now one of the five recommended ‘Steps to Mental Wellbeing‘ promoted by the UK’s National Health Service. “Acts such as volunteering at your local community centre can improve your mental wellbeing,” claims the NHS website. Can it be true? Is volunteering really …
The No Complaining Rule
One Simple Rule is Having a Big Impact. I didn’t invent the rule. I discovered it. One day I was having lunch with Dwight Cooper, a tall, thin, mild-mannered former basketball player and coach who had spent the last 15 years building and growing a company he co-founded into one of the leading nurse staffing companies in the world. Dwight’s company, PPR, was named one of Inc. Magazines Fastest Growing Companies several times but on this day it was named one of the best companies to work for in the country and Dwight was sharing a few reasons why. Dwight told me about …
Get a clear line of sight
“Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.” – Mark Pincus Get clear on your goal, perfectly clear. Otherwise you become driven by the unsettling winds of opinion, doubt and compromise. Know what you want, and pursue it with passion and drive. Don’t give up, don’t get distracted, but know
What If You Were Gone Tomorrow?
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -M.K. Gandhi To follow up on the “Build Your Life” post, it’s a difficult thing to do (what that post and the comments suggest) … Continue reading →
Live in your zone
“Live in a bulls!t-free zone.” Stop the lies. End the clever tales you tell yourself and others. Untangle the twisted web of self-deceit. Stand in your truth. Uncover the fears that drive the lies. Find the message within them; discover the lessons learned. Then let them go – break free. It’s time to be transparent. It’s time to live in the light of truth – in your bullsh!t-free zone. The post Live in your zone appeared first on Healthy Mind Heart Body.
7 Strategic Actions for Overcoming Procrastination
How often do you want to do something important, but instead of doing it you make excuses that convince you to postpone taking action? Now let me ask you this, after putting something off once, how easy is it to put that same thing off again? It gets easier every time, doesn’t it? That’s what we might call the mañana mentality. In other words, why do today what you can put off until tomorrow? The truth is, the more we make excuses, the more we buy into them. Eventually, procrastination becomes integrated into our identity. We actually become a procrastinator. We all procrastinate to…
Webinar: Healing Physical Pain
In this webinar, I'm taking a look at some of the ways we can get to the roots of physical pain. On the spiritual path, we stay engaged with our pain to understand any part we may be playing in creating it. This is part of how we appreciate the law of interconnection within ourselves–all parts of relate to all other parts of us. As we cultivate our sensitivity to ourselves…
If It Walks Like a Fool, Talks Like a Fool….
Litigant on the People’s Court: I was the other woman for 19 years, he would drink and not come home…he cheated on me (apparently there was more than one other woman) and once he didn’t come home on his birthday … Continue reading →
Stress vs Anxiety – When Should You Be Worried?
We tend to use the words stress and anxiety rather interchangeably in modern conversation. “I’m so stressed about this job interview” means the same to many as “I am suffering serious anxiety whenever I think about my interview”. But in psychology, stress and anxiety are not really the same thing. And one can be quite …
Choose
“When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument.” – Jason Fried You can stand and debate endlessly, and never decide. Or you can choose – stand for something – and get on with your life. Choose and embrace what you believe, make decisions, and get things done. The post Choose appeared first on Healthy Mind Heart Body.
How Beliefs affect Self-Esteem
Personal self-esteem isn’t something that a lot of people feel comfortable talking about. When we do discuss it, we generally use terms like healthy or low to describe the condition of our self-esteem. But what is the foundation of self-esteem? If we want to make some improvements in this area, where do we start? Our beliefs form the basis for our self-esteem. Specifically, our beliefs about our value as a person and what we feel we are or are not capable of. The way we view ourselves according to those beliefs is either empowering or limiting. We form these beliefs based on the conclusions we draw about our own experiences, especially our estimation of our ability to …
Spirituality, Food Ideologies, and Diets
There's a lot of confusion and misconceptions around spiritual diets/ways of eating, and with the eating habits of Western Culture having becomes so warped, people just don't even know what they should eat anymore. Add on top of that, we have some of the weirdest situations and choices to make in the history of humanity with issues around pesticides on foods, growth hormones in animals, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), animal cruelty, sourcing of the food (Is it local or not?) and more. This has turned a trip to the …
What is Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy?
Dynamic interpersonal therapy (DIT) is a short-term, highly structured form of psychotherapy that is used to treat depression and anxiety. A usual course of DIT consists of sixteen weekly sessions. DIT’s focus is on relationships, and helping clients understand the link between their low moods and the ways they are interacting with
Wisdom Books: On Truth – The Tyranny of Illusion by Stefan Molyneux
From a short-term, merely practical standpoint, you really do not want to read this book. This book will mess up your life, as you know it. This book will change every single one of your relationships – most importantly, your relationship with yourself. This book will change your life even if you never implement a … Related posts: Wisdom Books: The Awakening of Intelligence by J. Krishnamurti Wisdom Books: “Cutting Through” Volumes 1, 2, 3 by Alan Watt Wisdom Books: Wisdom of the Knowing Ones by Manly P. Hall Wisdom Books: NonViolent Action Handbook by Sanderson Beck Wisdom Books: The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception