How strong is your change muscle?

People who successfully navigate change know they are resilient, strong and capable of getting through anything. Period.

No victim, poor-me, blame-something-or-someone attitude, life-is-against-me, no putting yourself down for bad decisions or regrets.

You have a "change muscle," as i affectionately call it, that part...

Principle 2: The Change Guarantee: From this situation something good will come. (Write this down somewhere visible!)

People who successfully navigate change know that change always brings something positive into their lives. Every change has something good associated with it eventually. Often the reason why something is happening is not...

People Who Successfully Navigate Change Have Positive Beliefs

Your biggest need right now is to develop new beliefs about yourself, about the particular change you are facing at the moment and about life in general. Nothing will have a bigger impact on the way you handle change. What you are...

I've been sharing this at many of the recent speaking engagements and workshops I've done so I wanted to do it with all with you.

As we go through our lives, we all tend to want to "fill up our plates" with jobs, family, health, money, some passions and hobbies,...

I'm speaking at the Maria Shriver Women's Conference in LA this week. Very exciting. I am honored to have been invited again.

For those who won't be attending, I wanted to share what I am going to be speaking about. Here are top tips on how to start a business...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama made a proclamation that stunned the crowd at the recent Peace Summit in Vancouver: "The world will be saved by the western woman." And at Maria Shriver's Women's Conference where I will be speaking again this year, they sold an astounding 14,000 tickets in the...

It seems like more and more people want to give back, volunteer, feel as if their work matters and that they are making a difference. For some, they want to create change in their community, in their school, in the workplace and for others, they want to change something on...

My friend Kit Cooper is a successful entrepreneur who started a wonderful movement called The Quality of Life Project.

His mission is to help us all see our lives through the lens not of money or success but of contentedness, happiness, being more conscious of our day-to-day lives. He...

I've had the privilege of interviewing thousands of people for my book, The First 30 Days, who are navigating change in their lives. For some it's a career change or a shift in their relationship, for others it's a health diagnosis or a change in their finances. And for others,...

I've been struggling through some of my own stuff, personally and professionally, and the only word I keep getting to is Patience. Not my favorite word, believe me. I have never made that word my friend. I've been mad at people who say it to me. I've also been good...

There's been quite a bit of talk about 2012 and whether some dramatic change is going to face the world, the planet, each of us individually. I wanted to share a few thoughts about what I know, what I've read and what I personally choose to believe about this subject....

Apologies happen -- sometimes multiple times a day. We apologize when we unintentionally say something hurtful, when we make a mistake at work, or when we bump into somebody on the street. And then there are the bigger apologies -- those we should have addressed months or years ago. Maybe...

By Gary King

I've known Gary King for over 15 years and I can say he is one of the wisest, kindest human beings I know. He also has a transformative message for the world right now. He is a world-class speaker on the subjects of honesty, forgiveness, self-esteem and...

There isn't a single person who hasn't been affected by the financial meltdown. Each of us is being asked to think differently about money, reflect on how much we have and need, why we need it, how we can make more in today's world.

Money is not only an actual...

We live in transitional times. Each of us is affected by change, whether it be a job change, a relationship change, a financial change or even a health-related change.

Kids feel these changes, too. They witness them closely. For example, often they are involved in the case of a divorce,...

I am often asked what's the secret to success? to being an entrepreneur? to getting a goal? to pursuing a dream?

Well, I've come to answer all of these questions with the same answer. Be a woodpecker! Yes, a bird!

Here's how I see it. Woodpeckers are one of the...

There really are only so many excuses we come up with when we are thinking of making a change in our lives.

I'm too old...I'm too young...someone will disapprove...it's too late...I don't have the energy...I don't have the money...someone is going to get hurt...I don't know how to start...it's going...

It was my birthday a few days ago, always a time when I take a moment to think about the year. We're nearly halfway through this one already.

For those of you who've been reading my blog for a while, you know that I am a big fan of picking...

I'd like to offer some advice to graduates on the First 30 Days After Graduating in a No-Job Environment.

1) You don't need to figure out your entire career
Begin by starting with something you want to do. Most 40/50 year olds still haven't figured out what they want...

I did a radio interview with a great guy called Jim Lobaito the other night. He shared with me this list below and I so loved it, I asked him if i could post it on my site.

When we go through change, we desperately try to control things, the...