Morty Lefkoe

Between our obsession with our looks and the national crisis involving obesity, losing weight is constantly on the minds of tens of millions of people.

Diets and pills ultimately don't work for most people because they don't eliminate the true cause of emotional eating.

Diets fail because you have...

If you have read any of the writings of the top self-help experts during the past 10 years -- such as Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield or Joe Vitale -- you've learned that permanent change is impossible without eliminating the beliefs that are keeping you stuck.

I agree; beliefs do have...

For many years I thought that virtually all of our behavior and feelings were caused by beliefs. When thousands of clients found and eliminated the relevant beliefs, they saw spectacular behavioral and emotional changes.

After about 12 years, however, I had a client who eliminated scores of beliefs and made...

Many emotional eaters don't care what they eat when they are triggered with a negative feeling. They eat whatever they can find in the kitchen because they have been conditioned to eat.

Some emotional eaters specifically crave sweets. They will eat non-sweets if that is all that's available, but...

The Placebo Effect

One of the best proofs that beliefs have a powerful impact on our health has existed for years right under the noses of every physician in the world: the placebo effect, "a change in a patient's illness attributable to the symbolic import of a treatment rather than...

One small manufacturing company we helped a few years ago had a typical top-down managerial hierarchy, with the bosses making all the decisions and the workers doing little more than following orders. Morale was low. Results were only fair.

The owner of the company asked us to help him...

If you fear public speaking more than going to the dentist, or even death, you are not alone.

This fear is so common that surveys indicate that over 50 percent of the adult population of the United States experiences fear when speaking in public. As Jerry Seinfield put it...

Seth Godin did it again. I recently read his newest book, Poke the Box, and it's just the right book for our times. It probably will become his 13th bestseller.

If you've read any of his earlier books or his daily blog (which I devour as soon as it arrives...

On any given day thousands of salespeople are being trained to be more effective. They are taught how to listen to their customers, how to handle objections, how to be more effective at cold calling, how to handle charging more money than competitors for similar products and services, and how...

Despite the fact that younger members of the workforce are demanding the opportunity to think for themselves and contribute their brains as well as their brawn to their companies, many managers still insist on micromanaging their employees.

My experience in many firms is that most supervisors and mid-level managers...

Do you think people resist change? Most people answer with an emphatic: "Yes."

I don't think people resist change at all.

To which you might respond: "Well if people don't resist change, why do most people not change when given good reason to change?"

Good question. Here's...

There are hidden saboteurs in almost every organization that are inhibiting innovation, creating inefficiency, and ultimately reducing profits. These deadly saboteurs are in plain sight, but are not seen. What are they?

Beliefs about what can't be done, what must be done, and what each employee believes he/she should...

Are you one of the many executives who secretly feels that you are an impostor who doesn't really deserve your success? Do you feel, deep down, that you are really not good enough and that if others knew the truth about you, you'd lose all you had achieved?

If so,...

Today an organization's management either recognizes the need to change, or it will watch helplessly as market share and profitability slowly (and in some cases, quickly) disappears.

Unfortunately, although more and more managements are beginning to understand the need to challenge what used to work in the light of today's...

A few years ago while in the midst of a corporate consulting assignment, I realized that there was one crippling belief that was rampant in every organization I had ever worked with. And this belief was not only the most common belief in organizations, it was, in my opinion, the...

A recent survey of entrepreneurs and small business owners that I conducted revealed that most of them were afraid of making a decision. One of their biggest regrets was the decisions they hadn't made or the ones they had made "too late." Many of them complained about taking too long...

By Morty and Shelly Lefkoe

Remember the last time you heard a parent say, "My kids are wonderful. They always obey me." Or, "They never talk back." Or, "They are never a problem." Did you sigh with envy and say, "Oh, I wish my kids were like that"? Think again....

I'm writing this on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my wife Shelly and I are visiting our 29-year-old daughter, Blake.

Shortly after she arrived in Hawaii almost 11 years ago, she started surfing. She now surfs waves as big as 20 feet, and she has progressed to the...

Are you bothered by a psychological problem that you aren't even trying to get rid of because you think it's "human nature" and can't be eliminated? If so, you aren't alone.

For example, Seth Godin recently published his 13th book, "Poke the Box," that explains most people's failure to take...

Are you bothered by a psychological problem that you aren't even trying to get rid of because you think it's "human nature" and can't be eliminated? If so, you aren't alone.

For example, Seth Godin recently published his 13th book, "Poke the Box," which explains most people's failure to take...