I have a confession. I am not as congruent as I'd like to be. For years I've been training my mind...yet I've ignored my body. My biggest struggle over the years has been quitting smoking.  At 41, I'm not nearly as healthy as I'd like to be, although

This is how most of us approach goal setting. We choose the goal (collect underpants), visualize the outcome (profit), yet have no clue what Phase 2 is. At Phase 1, our hearts go "YEAH!  This is my PASSION!" Then our brains go "Sounds great....how you go

  You are what you eat. Sure.. if you feed your body a bunch of unhealthy junk, then you'll end up an unhealthy person. What about your brain, though? Do you feed your brain nutritious and educational stuff or is it a steady diet of fear, paranoia, a

We all know that fear can, sometimes, be a great motivator. It can push us to new heights, new adventures, and into doing new things we thought we couldn't do before. But what happens when fear becomes irrational? When we see the 'boogeyman' around eve

  We all have that people pleaser part of our personalities. That part of us that doesn't want to rock the boat, that wants to "be the bigger person".  It's perfectly natural and perfectly human to avoid conflict. However, if you're like that more oft

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood

    So... this weekend, I should have been in South Beach. A buddy of mine from work is getting married in a couple weeks, and this weekend was his bachelor party weekend in Miami.  As it turns out, life had different plans for me, as I had to work

    Recently a friend of a friend lost their child.  In the service, one of the prayers contained a line from an old Rossiter Raymond poem.  It said: The idea that the horizon is only as far as we can see, yet we know there's more beyond that is

Google "reset button" and search images, and you'll see a bunch of quotes that say life doesn't have a reset button. Shenanigans! Life sure as hell has a reset button, one you can hit any time you want. It's called making new choices. Now, granted, hi

Ever say to yourself "Self...something has GOT to change!  I can't live like this anymore!" Then you make progress towards creating the life you desire...for a bit...and then that old ambition killer, comfort, comes back in and stops you in your tracks?