If, like me, you look for meaningful answers to not only life’s problems, but personal fulfillment and happiness, you have gone down many “dead end” roads. Or maybe you just want to figure out how to break a personal pattern that you find troublesome. After all, not everyone sets out
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Positive personal change can feel pretty disorienting. In fact, big changes that reshuffle your priorities, methods, and relationships can even feel like a free fall. Ever experienced this sensation? Even trying to restore aspects of yourself back to their original “settings” can leave you stumbling to regain your footing. But
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What happens when you get used to something that you shouldn’t get used to? Over time, you can get used to just about anything — even if things aren’t as they should be. We can walk with an injured knee that doesn’t fully straighten, ignore a broken step we use
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If your intimate relationship is feeling anything but intimate and wonderful right now, you may be questioning your alternatives. Stop right there! Take a closer look! Even if your relationship is in a great place, you might want to listen up, too. That rocky relationship can turn around. And that
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Like me, you’ve asked and you’ve been asked, “How did you two meet?” Somehow that is always a fascination. But seldom — if ever — do we ask, “Where is your relationship going?” Or “What is your relationship direction?” Isn’t that a much more important question? What is our relationship
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From the moment you are born, neural pathways are forming intricate highways of logic and reason within your human system. You then begin the lifelong process of ditching pathways that you’re not using, replacing them with new ones, and creating even deeper grooves down the neural pathways that work for
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In my state, we must have our cars inspected annually to be sure they are roadworthy. We cannot obtain new license plate tags without it. That inspection is forced on us if we want to drive our cars legally in the state. However, like me, you probably willingly give your
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This summer, I did a ton of driving. I’m not talking about the normal daily mileage laid down getting my kids to their litany of sporting events, lessons, and social engagements. I mean the kind of driving that puts you in a vehicle with your whole family, on old but
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Did you know that faith in yourself is a psychological necessity for mental health? Based on how our human system is designed, it’s imperative for experiencing fulfilling relationships and bursting through present limitations. But many of us struggle with the idea. Can it lead to becoming self-absorbed or misguided? Is
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Did you know that you’re full of beliefs that you can’t prove? Just think about how often you step on a plane and fly suspended by unseen forces for hours. Or consider how you believe in the presence of electricity even though you can’t touch it. You must have faith
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What do you find more challenging? Is guiding a colleague or resolving conflict at work any easier for you than working with your own family at home? Your co-workers typically don’t experience “You, the Home Version,” do they? The work version of you has chosen to adhere to standards of
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It’s easy to get sidetracked when an emotionally charged situation at work brings out someone’s worst, right? It happens once and you find a way to reason your way out of the muddy pit of negative they’ve created. “They must be having a really bad day,” you say. It happens
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