Nearly everyone has times when stress builds up, whether from specific things or just from life in general, to the point where they feel overwhelmed and stressed out. Knowing how and why you get to that state can help you to avoid it in the first place… and there is a 3 step method that can help you quickly and easily reduce your stress once you’ve already gotten there. Where Your “Stress Load” Comes From [...]

Have you ever had one of those days when you simply wake up in a bad mood? When you wake up in a bad mood, whether the bad is depressed, angry, frustrated, or something else, it seems like it is often very hard to shake.  It can easily last through most of the day, and you even interpret everything that happens that day through the filter of your bad mood. There is actually a very [...]

When you’re feeling overwhelmed, it can be easy to let your dreams die.  It can be easy to give up on them, and begin to believe that they are impossible. Dreams never really die, though… when you give up on them, they don’t go away.  Instead, they hang around in the background constantly sapping your mental, emotional, and sometimes even physical energy. That drain doesn’t heal with time, either… it gets worse.  The longer that [...]

Do you know what it means when you feeling overwhelmed?  Do you know not what it is, but why it happens? You know that dizzy feeling you get when you’re having trouble keeping your balance, or when you lean out over the edge of some place high up?  It’s your subconscious mind’s way of telling your conscious mind that your body is out of balance. Feeling overwhelmed is the same thing, but for “life balance”, [...]

“Show me the money!” “Put your money where your mouth is.” I’m sure you’ve heard someone say one of the phrases above (most likely both) at some point.  They both mean about the same thing:  You’ve talked enough, now show some action. Love is the same way.  It is great (and important) to say that you love your wife, or girlfriend, but words only go so far… and the longer you go without doing something [...]

Popular theory has it that men are easy to please, and women are more, well, complicated. It’s true… women are complicated, but the implication that women are not easy to please, now that one is a complete fabrication.  It’s as easy to make a woman happy as it is to do so for a man. Want proof?  I have listed below 7 easy ways to make your wife happy… Write her a letter Adding this [...]

Chaos is in my nature.  I thrive when creating, and suffer when maintaining.  I feel passion when building something and “stuck” when forced to focus on the details. Does that sound familiar, or overwhelming?  Does it sound exciting to throw caution to the wind and dive right into something, or does it sound scary? In my last article, I gave a very broad overview of the two basic natures of people, chaotic and orderly.  I [...]

I don’t really know WHY my subscription service has been having issues lately, but I believe that I have them fixed.  Of course, in the midst of fixing them, I also appear to have temporarily broken direct access to articles (it’s fixed now).  If any of you visit the site and notice that one of the articles appearing on the site has not been received in your subscription, be it email or RSS, please let [...]

Everyone in life has a nature that tends toward either chaos or order… knowing which one is your nature is essential to happiness and success.

What causes the most stress during the holidays?  It’s usually one of two things… family (relationships), or presents. Maybe you don’t get along with someone in your family… maybe you don’t get along with anyone in your family.  Or it could be that you have “things that need to get done”, and spending time with extended family keeps you from doing those things. Or perhaps you are one of those ones who worries about gifts… [...]