I opened a fortune cookie and found this fortune: Happiness is an inside job. I love that, but I want to take it to its ultimate application: Everything is an inside job! Our lives are not determined by outside forces, circumstances, or luck. They are guided by what’s inside us: thoughts, feelings, beliefs, our self-concept. […]
We always get more of what we focus on. We always become what we hold as our self-concept. Do you have a positive focus for your thoughts, feelings, imagination, and actions? Positive focus is different that positive thinking. With a positive focus, you can allow negative thoughts, recognize them for what they are, deal with […]
Image is everything! I’m not talking about fashion or what you look like. I’m talking about your self-image, who and what you imagine yourself to be. You will create the life you consistently see yourself living. Countless studies have proven the power of visualization and linked success and failure to the image we hold of […]
Forgiveness is the most beautiful, precious you will ever give yourself. Forgiveness is a gift you give to YOU, not to other people. When you forgive, you release yourself from all of the poison and toxins of negative thoughts that are highly corrosive to your life. It doesn’t mean you stay in that relationship or […]
Everyone is, on some level, a leader. Not everyone, however, is a positive leader. People who lead from position, from an attitude of dominance and force may be able to get people to do certain things for a brief period of time, but that leader rarely last long and the results are rarely what the […]
Have you ever been to a really wonderful, fun, exciting party? I mean a party in which you were totally happy to be there and you were happy everyone else was there, too. You were dancing, laughing, talking, eating! Then, out of the corner of your eye, you see someone you don’t like and you […]
The Ego isn’t bad, it just likes to wander away from the heart and do things on its own. It wants to be the boss, get all of the attention, and take all of the blame. The Ego (our mind), however, is capable of great creativity when it is correctly aligned with the guidance of […]
You are powerful. Yes, you are filled with power, which is what the word means. The word “power” comes from the Latin posse which means “be able.” You are able; you have the power to choose your thoughts, to feel any feeling you want to feel, and to take actions that will move your life […]
We don’t determine our futures; we determine our habits and our habits determine our future. One of the things I learned while training for my first marathon was this: you’re always training for something. If I get out of bed and go for a run, I’m training to do that again tomorrow. If I skip […]
The only time you have any power is in the present moment. Nothing happens in the future and nothing happens in the past. In fact, the future and past are not real. The only thing that is real is this moment right now. In this moment there is the power to choose anything you want […]