Pleasure vs. Stress Relievers
Stress release can have two sides. One is the reward of pleasure or enjoyment to counter balance life’s constant demands on our time, energy, and effort. This is a healthy release much like a vacation, socializing, or other forms of rejuvenation. A reward for your efforts. But unless you practice healthy forms of release in moderation, stress relievers can also be known as numbing out or de-stressing. This can be in the form of avoidance or unwillingness to face perceived pre
Overcoming Fear
“We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.” ~ Max DePree There is a coda for mastering fear and overcoming self-imposed limitations. The tools listed here will help you reach your objectives while gaining confidence, creativity, energy, personal power, and self-mastery. Let’s look at what holds people back. Typically, it’s fear. So the question becomes; what is fear? Fear is defined as; an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness
Thoughts are Things
In order to make changes in your thinking habits, and effectively changing them from negative, fear-based, to ones that are positive, empowering, and open up your inspiration, creativity, and limitless style of thinking, you must replace negative, self-limiting behavior with an opposite, more constructive and useful style of thinking. The simplest, most effective way to do this is to practice just acknowledging when you have a negative thought or belief. By simply recognizing
The Forgotten Power of Intention
God didn’t create you to fail. Or if you don’t believe in God, the universe did not create you to fail. You been winning since the beginning. Think about it. The moment you were born if you don’t start to breathe, you die. If you don’t learn to walk you don’t grow. If you don’t eat you die. You’ve been learning how to succeed from the very beginning, but somewhere in your mindset (your belief system), you see yourself as having failed many times in your adult life. Nowadays w
The Success of the Resting Mind
I noticed recently, that ambitious people don’t understand the value in rest. They keep going, multitasking, putting more on their plate every day, and reveling in being able to tell others how incredibly busy their lives are. It seems to be a point of value or worth to remain in a constant state of busyness. Yet, they say that they wished they had more time, but they choose (and it is a choice), to stay in the chaos. Perhaps they think they’ll lose their competitive edge or
