You know the traditional tasks you've been told to do before embarking on a job search or a career change. Halt. Don't go there. You aren't ready, yet.

Can you remember the last time you completely lost track of time because you were so engrossed in what you were doing or when time seemed to literally just slow down?

The best indicator that you are serving a calling is when you can learn to not care about what other people think. You know you are making a difference on some scale.

To truly excel at what you do, there has to always be some part of your life that is not automatic yet. When this is the case, you can practice in this zone until you achieve automaticity. Then raise the bar.

What I'd rather do is to see life as joy and see the pain as existing in the space between. It is like seeing my recent discomfort as a chapter in the book, not the book itself.

We're living through challenging times. But inherent in nearly all challenges are opportunities for renewal and transformation.

Chronic negative thinking is a form of addiction. To break this self-defeating addiction, change your behaviors to ones that create more positive results.

While these beliefs and behaviors allowed us to adapt to our families growing up, they are often destructive in our adult lives.

What goes on in our lives during the day can profoundly effect the quality of our sleep at night. Here are some areas of life you may want to inquire in to.

No matter how 'zen' you are in everyday life there's bound to be someone that gets to you when you've been traveling, away from the comfort of your own home or hosting a large group of people.

If you're convinced that 'that's just the way it is' and feeling stuck in a rut I urge you to try a course, take a chance and 'live in the possibility' that you actually can reinvent yourself.

Whether you want to become a better leader or bring greater balance into your life, there are three keys to achieving any type of goal: focus, strategy, and commitment.

The level of compulsion for texting, instant messaging and emailing rests in the same pleasure centers of the brain as do other addictions like gambling, narcotics and alcohol.

My life was focused on looking good, being at the right parties and doing whatever it took to make it to the top. You had to work to get into the inner circles. Drugs were a must.

We sometimes project seemingly offensive or undesired qualities onto others to remind ourselves of something we are lacking or of something else we'd rather become.

Talking about the right brain as the way of the future is a step backwards to a time when intuitive impressions about the brain were all we had.

When you step up and become your own A-list director, you will develop positive self-esteem, refuse to call yourself names, no longer put up with putdowns or hold onto limiting beliefs.

Playwrights, directors and actors create whole worlds with words, some lights and a few pieces of cloth. Everyone can be a star in their own lives!

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