Rules To Live By Like it or not, thoughts control our outcomes. Thoughts create expectations and interpretations about our experiences. What happens is less important that our thoughts about what happens. For real. The way you choose to think about an event goes a long way in determining if you remember it positively or negatively. …
Just Be
Meditation and mindfulness. Everywhere you look there are books, podcasts, classes and articles about meditation and mindfulness. Recently, I even saw a TV commercial for one of the more popular meditation/mindfulness apps called Calm. I found this ironic and fascinating for a couple of reasons. It is ironic because television is our favorite mind-numbing pass …
5 Thankfuls
I picked up a good habit a few months ago. I heard the idea on one of the dozen or so podcasts I regularly listen to, not sure which but here is my simplified version. I don't even write it down so it's super easy. Because I keep it simple, it sticks and now it's …
How To Make a New Habit Stick
Trying to start a new habit or replace a bad one with a new positive one is, shall we say, difficult? What we're doing is trying to change our default behavior. A key to making the new habit stick is to anchor it to an existing habit. Until the new behavior is established as a …
Surprising Ways We Self-Sabotage
A friend of mine recently asked me what was the number one thing I compare myself in. I'm thinking, "Just one?! It's a tie for everything!" And I realized, I compare myself so often I'm mostly unaware of it. Comparison is the constant soundtrack playing in my head, sort of like background music. What is …
7 Rules to End Each Day With a Sense of Accomplishment
There's No Such Thing as Done. Day after day, we write down our top 3 or work from a longer to do list but even if we check off every box there’s still more to do. Finishing the day with a sense of accomplishment and completion. Isn’t that the unicorn we are all chasing after? Starting …
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3 Daily Habits for Achieving Your Goals
3 Daily Habits for Achieving Your Goals 3 years from now, If nothing changed in your life, are you OK with that? No, it's not ok? The power of leveraging habits is that by pre-deciding as many things as possible, you conserve your limited willpower for important things like starting a big new project …