One of the most common challenges we have in life is social interaction…being able to be self-assured, self-confident and comfortable when speaking with other people be they friends, relatives, strangers in group settings or one-on-one. Many people see themselves instead as socially awkward or inept. In fact, for many people the desire to be involved […]
I wanted to write this blog post for everyone who feels “you” are the ONLY one who feels uncomfortable, shy or otherwise uncertain in groups of people when you may be perfectly comfortable 1-on-1 or in small groups. You would be amazed at how common this is…while people can be freaked out by the opposite […]
Isn’t it frustrating to know that you MUST change in life and that you really want that change badly, but you seem to be constantly drawn back to the same bad behaviors again and again no matter how hard you try? For instance, if you have ever tried to… stop smoking lose weight control your […]
I struggled with meditation in my younger years, understood there should be some benefits but couldn’t quite master it. As is documented in Attracting Greatness, major life changes happened in my early 20’s and again a few years ago that made meditation a MUST again…and I did manage to work out a method (using relaxing […]
For many of us, all that is standing between our dreams, goals and desires is low self-esteem. The frustration that develops from knowing what we want out of life and knowing that we have the ability to get there except for our lack of self-esteem becomes overwhelming to the point that we either give up […]
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One of the leading contributing factors to anxiety, stress, and overwhelm is feeling as though you do not control your situation. Not surprisingly the events that have occurred and that have been reported extensively including the financial crisis, mass killings, higher unemployment, corruption, etc…all feed into the bucket of making us feel less in control […]
Do you ever get the sense that we are sitting on the tipping point…our society, economy and personal psychology all seem to be charging toward a giant waterfall and sometimes it all feels overwhelming. Anxiety is a state that many of us have to one extent or another at points in our life, the challenge […]
We are naturally fed bad news, have to listen to those around us complain as they idle in despair and often sabotage our own thinking with worry, fear and anxiety…this all happens by default. So, we need to be consciously countering this natural tendency toward negativity and “cancerous” thinking by interrupting our thought patters, spending […]
We all know what it’s like when you have situations in your life where you know you lack self confidence… You dread talking to strangers even though you are ok around your family and closest friends You clam up when you are around people that make you feel uncomfortable You can’t express yourself like you […]
Judging from my informal poll, about 75% of people have trouble getting or staying to sleep at night. Some have trouble getting to sleep keeping themselves busy until they can finally nod off at 1 or 2 AM while others get to sleep well but find themselves waking up a few hours later only to […]