Threee simple things to uplift your mood today: 1. Look up to the sky. Looking down is associated with negative feelings. By changing your physical state, your emotional state changes too. 2. Write down 10 things you are grateful for. You cannot maintain thoughts of gratitude at the same time … [Read more...]
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Stop your personal soap opera!
Let's be honest, we all love telling dramatic stories about our lives. It can be fun. But let's be careful not to get too absorbed in them. It's easy to get obsessed by stories about how we "just are", how things "happen to us" and how we "have no choice". This kind of language keeps us in victim … [Read more...]
Continue ReadingHow much does your life excite you?
So many people I speak to feel stuck in a rut. Many of them have highly successful careers and good incomes, yet they feel like living on a treadmill. They tell me that they are dissatisfied and experience life as uninspiring and exhausting. Ask yourself the following: Do you experience life … [Read more...]
Continue ReadingTrying hard but not getting results?
Maybe it's time to change your course. If we always do what we have always done, we will always get what we always have. So what should you change? What is worth dropping because it has not worked and what is worth trying out? How about starting with your thoughts? … [Read more...]
Continue ReadingOnce Upon a Time – Why Change?
One of my guilty pleasures is watching the TV show "Once Upon a Time". In one episode, the evil witch asks her authoritarian mother: "Why can't I just be myself?" Her mother answers: "Because you can be so much more!" This reminds me of a few people who have asked me why they should work on their … [Read more...]
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