No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Eleanor Roosevelt Research shows that there are individual and unique ways to happiness. Specifically, depending on factors like personality, resources, interests, and lifestyle, there is an ideal activity that...
Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease. Alejandro Jodorowsky Anything outside the box attracts attention. In my undergrad/college years, I had to do an experiment for a Social Psychology class. As part of that experiment, I remember hearing about a peer...
Remove expectations from people, and you’ll remove their power to hurt your feelings.Vax King A few months ago, I happened to be dropping off my puppy at day-care. I was in mid-thought about a particular client that was coming to see me because she felt like a...
If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.Warren Buffet I love the above quote, with a few caveats: 1) the word, “control” can be quite misleading, as it’s not about a dictating relationship with your emotions. Emotional...
Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy, this is physics.Albert Einstein There are those that believe we’re all...
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.Bill Copeland You have to set yourself up right if you want the right goals in life. When I have clients who come to see me after a period of seeing a life...
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.Lao Tzu The more I work with clients, the more I’ve found that there’s one major thing that people are looking for. We all seek confidence in our abilities to tackle life’s challenges, as well...
Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.Bruce Lee You got a new job. You got let go. You just found out your friend from college passed away. Your car needs a new transmission. Your wife wants to leave you. Your partner wants to move to the other side of...
If you wait, all that happens is you get older.Larry McMurtry Sometimes, especially during the holiday season, it can be easy to feel stagnant and sluggish when it comes to goals and performance. Whatever the reason, not having motivation to do something that you...
Smile. Breathe. And go slowly.Thich Nhat Hanh Many have asked me how I seem to be so “zen” all the time. It helps that I’ve been blessed to create my own schedule and to be selective of the type of work that I do. It also helps that I’ve...