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A Practical Guide to Unlock Fulfillment and Personal GrowthIn the decades I have used my professional training in clinical psychology and clinical hypnosis to help individuals achieve profound happiness and spiritual development, I have witnessed firsthand how emotional intelligence (EI) transfor...
Life is uncertain. We constantly encounter situations that are out of our control and for which we are unprepared. Worse yet, our actions sometimes - in spite of our best efforts -Â result in negative events that cause us to feel like we are being punished. To continue to move forward, to take ri...
You can define yourself. Itâs a choice, not manifest destiny. This regularly comes as a complete shock to the people with whom I work, in both principle and the degree to which it is true.You have the ability - the obligation, really - to invent and then reinvent yourself as you see fit. It takes...
Thanksgiving may be a uniquely American holiday, but the act of giving thanks has positive universal impact. I routinely see comments to the effect of, âGratitude is like âthoughts and prayers:â a nice sentiment but with no effect in the real world.âRecent findings in peer-reviewed journals would...
Turns out you just have to pick your hard.Sitting around all day, doing nothing and having no purpose and wondering why youâre here at all is hard.Trying your best and being consistently misunderstood and possibly failing when you put your all into something is hard.If you have no ambition and yo...
Discipline is necessary for just about anything in life, from getting up in the morning to achieving lofty goals. My own experience, in my personal life and from working with others, is that there is a relatively proportional relationship between the amount of discipline one can bring to bear on ...
The line of people who donât want to be happier is the shortest line in the world. When you ask why they want to be rich, to be famous, to have freedom, to generally do well in their lives, they will tell you that they âjust want to be happy.â The Dalai Lama even says that happiness is the purpos...
The crux is the central point, the main reason. No matter what you look at, it all comes back to this. People spend their whole lives trying to make money. What do they really want from that money? Most of them will tell you that theyâre looking for freedom. Freedom to do what? The freedom to liv...
This week I want to do something a bit different from my usual articles. I want to give you a peek into part of my own journey, in the hope that it may help you with yours. I want to talk to you about my experience in dealing with ambiguity.You must learn to deal with ambiguity to protect your en...
This weekâs article is in response to a readerâs question: âWhat are some tools to help us be aware of our habitual choices and improve upon them?â This is a great question with a long answer, but I will give an overview of how to develop happy habits in this (relatively) short article. What Is ...
