The human heart is made to love. It’s made to feel good. But sometimes stuff happens that makes you question who you are and leave your feeling destroyed. Life’s worst trials and challenges do this. It leads to suffering with doubt, worries and fears. It’s like you’re surrounded by a fog and all you can …
Why You’re Worth Fighting For (And How To Choose Yourself)
Do you believe that you’re worth fighting for? When you’ve experienced heartbreak, it doesn’t feel that way at all. Typically you experience such gut-wrenching pain that you feel worthless, not good enough, and completely broken. So to hear someone tell you that you actually are worthy, feels like a lie. How can that be …
Why Seeking Validation Is Crippling You
While making assumptions is one of the fastest ways to allowing negative beliefs take over your mind, there’s another culprit at play. It’s one of the leading causes of personal failure and fear in the world. Let’s just call it the need for validation. Or the need of someone else’s favorable opinion. Needing something from …
Why Assumptions Are Negative Beliefs In Disguise
It’s annoying when people say, “If you make assumptions, you make an ass out of you and me,” isn’t it? Duh dude. I’ve heard that before. But I’m learning that the analogy is a lot more potent than we often want to recognize. Which leads to a different kind of realization if you think about …
My 10 Must-Read Books From Last Year’s Reading List
I’m making a practice of reading more each year. You’d think I devour more books each year based on my trips to Half Priced Books (which I try to hit at least 3 times a year). Suffice to say my bookshelves and home/office libraries have a ton of books I haven’t read (yet). To help …
Why Your Holiday Season Doesn’t Have To Suck This Year
Every year around the holiday season, there’s a mood in the air. Can you feel it? For some it’s the mood of peace and cheer. But not for everyone. For others, there’s a dread and anxiousness. What is it that you feel? Ho-hum or Ba-Humbug holiday spirit We all have our own reasons for …
How To Defeat Your Inner Critic With One 4-Word Phrase
Recently I shared with you how overwhelm and anxiety take away from your work, your health, and ultimately your growth. After posting this blog article, several folks reached out to me for help in this overcoming this capacity. If you thought about it, but decided not to (for whatever reason), let me extend my continued …
How To Keep Anxiety & Overwhelm Away Today
When stress never seems to end, work deadlines feel like an assassin stalking you every day. How will you keep up? Add to this the feelings of anxiety and overwhelm that there are never enough minutes to do all you need to do. Or take care of everyone expecting you to serve them. You keep …
How To Use Your Creativity To Empower Others
Whether you consider yourself a world-renowned artist or visionary, you have the capability to empower & change lives for the good every day. It’s your choice. Do you get up every day determined to use your creative superpowers to make a positive impact? Or do you wake up and after hitting the snooze button ten …
Why Cold Pitch Emails Are The Bane Of Your Marketing & Don’t Work At All
I’ve got some tough love to give you. Being good at relationship building is about being genuine and not ruining connection opportunities. Here’s the hard truth: cold email pitches are absolute shit. If you’ve sent one in the past week (or even the past year), stop it. Right now! Are you frustrated with trying to …