[Back to How to stop stressing so you can change the world] With so many things going sideways in the world right now, it’s soooooo tempting to be hijacked by the call to Make! Everything! Better! Right! Now! But here’s the reality. What’s happening right now isn’t going to [...]
Would you like to feel more energized? Are you tired of dragging butt, and wish you felt more engaged and alive? In this post, I want to share a straightforward approach to consciously, intentionally shaping your life to feel more energized more of the time. I call it "maximizing the Gain-to-Drain [...]
One of my beefs with the whole self-help industry is how unrealistic the message it sends can be. It so often feeds people the notion that not only can everything be better, everything SHOULD be better. And if it's not, something's wrong. Would it be great to have things be all-fabulous, all [...]
As your focus turns to a new year, it can be a useful time to stop and do a tune-up on your life. Here are ten questions to help you energize, prioritize, and focus as you move into the coming year. To start with, try asking each of these questions in each of the following areas: Work [...]
How do you typically pursue your New Year’s resolutions? Do you flip the switch of change and resolve to grit it out? If that’s your approach, you’re sabotaging your resolutions' potential to spark change that lasts. Change that sticks doesn’t tend to be a flip-of-the-switch affair. [...]
'Tis the season when our efforts to make positive change have the staying power of a snowflake on a hot griddle. Yep, time for another round of that tragically flawed positive aspiration we call the New Year's resolution. But what if you tried something different this year? The wholesale change [...]
'Tis the season where we naturally start turning our minds toward where we've been, and where we're going. By December 31st, you will have invested 365 days of your life into the last year. How much you get out of that time - and the effect that will have on your life in in the year to come - is up[...]
Are you so focused on needing things to change for the better that you're cheating yourself of what's good right now? It's a common malady, one I have seen all too often. For example, one of the things I have seen repeatedly with people who feel stuck in jobs they don't like is an insidious [...]
Yesterday I wrote about why your time behind the wheel has so much potential to help you feel happier and less stressed in your life. Today I want to share some specific ideas you can experiment with (just a small sampling of the ideas I explore in The Drive to Inner Peace.) You can use these[...]
Are you the person you aspire to be when you're behind the wheel? If the answer to that is no, you're in good company. Whenever I ask that question, most people laugh a little sheepishly and admit that they're not. Often far from it. For most of us, our time in the car - and especially in heavy [...]