Back in August of 2019, I was going through what I call a “stormy season”. At that time I wrote the poem “Nature Whispered” to express my feelings, and shared the poem at my 2020 Make It Your Best Year Yet event. Many of the attendees asked for the poem, so here it is:
Nature Whispered
Nature whispered, “Stay still.”
The pain was strong… where did I go wrong?
I thought stormy seasons were over!
Then nature whispered,
“Stay still, claim back your power.
You are that much stronger.
Storms may c…
At times do you feel like you have taken on too many commitments and feel spread too thin? Have considered saying “No” at times like that, but find it hard to do? Let’s look at why it can be so hard to say no. Put another way, how do you say no and not feel bad about it?
Saying “No” can trigger all sorts of worried thoughts in your brain, like:
Let’s continue with tips that can make 2020 your best year yet! Last email we talked about the importance of writing your goals.
Sometimes we may set goals for ourselves that we don’t deeply care about. We set them because we assume that we should want to achieve certain things. As a result, our goals become another overwhelming to-do-list.
How do we make our goals exciting and inspiring?
By discovering your feelings behind the goals, and attaching those feelings to the goals!
Do you find yourself happy / sad, up / down, optimistic / pessimistic, and so on?
Rest assured that we all do. That was hard for me to understand until I realized the depolarization process.
You can hear me explain it in this video.
Everything in life down to the quantum wave is made of positive and negative. Acceptance and understanding of this polarity can free you to be successful. As you embrace all that you are, …
This week I had the time to sit and reflect on the things I learned in 2019. As I reflected, I realized that some of them are repeat from the past years so I guess some lessons I will keep learning.
Here are some of the most important ones I want to share:
Your health is one of your most valuable assets. Appreciate, nurture, and protect it.
Every person and every situation that you encounter teaches you about you: you…
Does the internet and social media make us more connected or disconnected? You have probably heard this question being discussed on many occasions. Although there are various ways of looking at the topic, I will share my experience.
When I asked this question to a group of students in Mercy College during my Stress Mastery presentation a couple of months ago, at first the students did not want to respond. When I spoke abou…
When change and challenge are knocking at your door, do you at times get a feeling of self-doubt creeping in? That is, moments when you start thinking “you are not good enough” or “what you have is not good enough”?
I know those moments: we all have them. Let’s talk about how to turn them around.
How? With what I call the “4Cs of Confidence.”
Confidence is a muscle you build through skillful exertion, not as some people …
Last week in my live event I talked about the three truths that I live by in my life that has brought me inner peace and success. For almost all of us, these require years of practice to realize in their true meaning, and that is a process in which I am also growing.
Truth #1: Seeing life as is.
Life is as it is. Not good, not bad; not challenging, not supporting; not loving, not fearing… just is. Life is all about cha…
For many years through some of my many readings and through different trainings, I thought I could be optimistic and enthusiastic at all times. But finally I realized that that was just humanly not possible.
This unrealistic demand for unrelenting positivity is, I believe, one of the downfalls of the positive thinking movement. People think they should be positive all the time and they don’t like themsel…
A while back, a gentleman came to me for coaching whom we’ll call Bill. Bill had been having panic attacks and was so overwhelmed, he didn’t know what to do. No matter how many hours he worked, it didn’t make a difference in his “to-do” list. There was always more and more to do, and it was causing him a lot of anxiety.
As we talked, I saw that Bill had lost his focus. I told him that unless he put himself as the top prior…
Here are some of the most important ones I want to share:
