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 [...]

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… [...]

Sometimes, when enough things change in your life in a short enough time, you feel like you're being overwhelmed, like you are lost amidst the chaos surrounding you.  It is a draining and very unpleasant experience, and it can make people who normally seem unflappable completely at a loss. That feeling of chaos can come from many different areas of your life… changes in your finances, your relationship, your job, or any other major thing [...]

Businesses, relationships, or anything that you want to grow, or build, is based upon a foundation.  It is no different when it comes to trying to build your self, when you are seeking personal growth. The foundation for anything is the core platform upon which everything else involved rests… if it fails, the rest will come crashing down as well.  If you want to avoid that, then it is essential that you understand what that [...]

How deeply inside is your true self, the way you really think and feel hiding?  Do you let others beneath the surface, or do you have carefully crafted walls to keep them out?  Do you let others form relationships with the real you, or just a persona? A persona is a person that you pretend to be that is not really you, much like a spy in the movies, except for most people the persona [...]

When people who do surveys for a living create the questions for a quality of life survey, they often ask about things such as your income, your relationship status, and your job satisfaction… but they almost never ask a question that has far more impact:  How is your self-worth? Let's step back for a moment… what is self-worth?  It is, quite simply, the value you place on yourself.  Do you think that you, as a [...]

Have you ever had that feeling that you are being pushed toward doing something?  You read something about a topic here, hear something about it over there, have something occur in your life related to it at another time… it just keeps popping up.  Well, that's been happening to me with regards to writing something. That something is an article about the different levels of awareness.  Each one contains, but is far more than, all [...]

What is the real you?  What is it that makes up the true you, what belongs to you and only you?  What do you get when you see past the surface, past the anger and fear, "love" and betrayal, hurt, pain, and even agony?  The real you… the deep you, the you that is beyond what the surface you can even imagine. When you are born, you have no concept of your "self".  As you [...]

Would you like to both appear, and actually be, smarter?  There are many techniques out there that can help you to learn this or that easier, or improve your memory, but it's not quite so common to find techniques that allow you to increase your general ability to acquire and apply knowledge across the board. If you're looking for such a way, or weren't particularly looking, but you're interested now that I caught your attention, [...]

I need your help with something.  I set a goal, quite some time back, of reaching 100 subscribers.  As you can see if you look near the top left corner of this page, I've reached that goal.  I was talking about this fact with my wife last night, and she asked me what my next goal would be.  I had already thought about this, of course, so it didn't take me long to answer:  500 [...]