Saving a Lifetime of Heartache

What if you could save yourself the lifetime of heartache and learn to heed life’s most valuable lessons before you were on your deathbed? Ware has worked in palliative care and shares the most pressing lessons of the dying with the rest of the world. The top...

Permanently Changing Our Behaviors

The key to permanently changing our behaviors is to change our internal state. Conceptually, it’s an easy fix. Relatively speaking, it’s probably one of the most difficult things we can do. But stick with me, and by the end of this post I hope to be able...

Hack Your Brain

The way we behave is affected by the way our brains are wired. What if we took this knowledge and hacked our brains to show up in the world the way we wanted to? Our brains are ancient – thousands of years old, inherited from our ancestors. Having an ancient...

Stepping into Fear

It’s not so easy to set and meet goals. Miracle and success stories aren’t meant for everyone… right? I can attest to the fact that getting from point A to point B is not as easy as connecting two dots. There’s so much fear! Not just to acting...

Navigating Life Transitions

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor Frankl Life transitions are usually fraught with anxiety, angst, and sorrow. Whether you’re grieving a loss or giving up a life-long career, transitions...

Who’s In Control?

There are many things that happen to us in life that are out of our control. Loved ones die, family members become abusive, strangers can turn your life inside out, upside down. When such traumatic experiences happen, especially when we’re young and beginning to shape...

Fountain of Youth

I am totally in love! This is as close to the fountain of youth as it gets. It’s reported to relieve symptoms of depression, increase your ability fight off colds and flus, recover faster from strenuous workouts, look younger, relieve stress, and learn to have...

Getting What You Want

Let’s put aside the notion of happiness and fulfillment for a minute. What does it mean to be successful? Depending on who you ask, this question invariably has many different responses. Regardless of how success is defined, however, it always requires two...

Adult Life Management

For a very long time, I’ve identified myself as a dreamer and a big-picture thinker – and still do to this day! It was a comfort to know that I can rely on this “label” as my excuse whenever someone pointed out missed deadlines, projects, or...

Individuality

A concept relating snowflakes to our unique individualities has been one of the most provocative ideas that I’ve ever heard. We are each like snowflakes. Unique in pattern, never to be repeated. Furthermore, just like snowflakes, our lives are transient –...