Archive for the ‘Feed Your Mind’ Category

What Would You Do?

A lot of people seem to be unaware of who they really are… they've never stopped to figure it out, just doing what they've learned that other people expect them to do, what they think they "should" do, rather than what is right for them.
If you would prefer to find fulfillment, rather than just trudging [...]

March 19, 2008   Posted in: Feed Your Mind  No Comments

Understanding The Conscious Mind’s Role In Happiness

The conscious mind is a funny thing… it's essentially a filter for the world around you, allowing you to concentrate your resources on a much smaller piece of, well, everything.  In spite of this, your conscious mind fools itself into thinking that it IS the whole thing, all of you.
In reality, there are at least [...]

January 28, 2008   Posted in: Feed Your Mind  No Comments

How To Get Beyond Feeling Empty Inside

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 [...]

January 22, 2008   Posted in: Feed Your Mind, Growth  No Comments

4 Keys To Making Your Dreams Come True

Everyone has their own dreams… mine is to be supported by my writing.  Yours may be something completely different… it may be to travel the world, be a professional chef, or something else.  You probably even have more than one dream… I wouldn't mind traveling the world, too.
There are a lot of individual steps to [...]

January 21, 2008   Posted in: Feed Your Mind, Goals  No Comments

How To Reach Your Potential – Break Down Your Walls

Who we are, or at least who we think we are, rests in large part upon the walls that we have built inside ourselves.  These walls are our self-defined limits, constraints on our own potential put that we inflict on ourselves.
We're not really aware of that when we build them, though… we build them for [...]

January 16, 2008   Posted in: Feed Your Mind  No Comments

7 Reasons Why It Helps YOU To Assume The Good Intentions Of Others

You have probably heard someone say before that you should give someone the benefit of the doubt, or as the title says, assume their good intentions.  Chances are pretty good that it was put in terms of helping them, giving them a second chance… just look at how the phrase starts:  "give someone".
The truth is, [...]

January 10, 2008   Posted in: Feed Your Mind  No Comments

The Perils Of Being Too Goal Focused

If you read many books or websites about self improvement in general, and success in particular, you will notice one theme, one concept, that appears more often than nearly any other:  setting goals.  I even recommend it myself, from time to time.
Setting goals can help you to focus your energy and effort, making it far [...]

January 4, 2008   Posted in: Feed Your Mind, Goals  No Comments

Sometimes Life Sets Its Own Pace

We all like to have things happen on our own schedule.  We want this now, the other thing tomorrow, and the thing after that next week.
Unfortunately, life has its own pace, and it doesn't always match our own.  Sometimes things happen faster than you'd like, and sometimes you are forced to slow down.
In the last [...]

January 2, 2008   Posted in: Feed Your Mind  No Comments

Change Your Framing, Change Your Life

Photography is, at its best, an art that captures a moment of life, preserving it for the ages.  A photograph, when framed and focused properly, can make something very ordinary into something of exquisite beauty.
The primary key, in photography, to take something from being ordinary into something extraordinary is the framing.  Essentially, you set up [...]

December 17, 2007   Posted in: Feed Your Mind  No Comments

A Step By Step Guide To Rebuilding Your Self-Worth

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 [...]

December 12, 2007   Posted in: Feed Your Mind, Growth  No Comments


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