How to Trust That Life Is Just Perfect and Avoid Doubt

As Shakespeare said, “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” Everybody has doubts and it is perfectly human to do so. While doubts help us to take necessary precautions, too many doubts can ruin our lives. If an individual inculcates a tendency to excessively […]

Steps to Avoid that Overwhelmed Feeling

Bertrand Russel had once said, “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”  How many of us have gone through a state of mind when we are totally overwhelmed by all the things we need to do and the lack of time to do them […]

Learn to Lighten the Moment

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is? – Dale Carnegie Being lighthearted in the midst of […]

Learn in Five Steps How to Let Go!

You Have the Keys, So Drive! The definition of obsession includes “to haunt like a ghost.” That can’t be good. We might think we hold onto something because we chose to, but consider the possibility that it is actually holding onto us. Uncover obsessions considered to be just a normal part of life; former relationships, […]

How to Surround Yourself with the Right People

If you want to learn to fly, you could take aeronautical advice from a child with a paper plane, “Go to a really high place on a windy day…” Catastrophes can begin by looking for the right answers from the wrong people. The same principle applies to those affecting our ability to achieve goals. The […]

How to Discover Your Authentic Self

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. – Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D, Author  Imagine if you could look in a mirror and see who you really are, your authentic self. A […]

Five Steps to Maintain a Passion for Life

Don’t Live to Work, Work to Live! Children have intense passion for so many things because – they can! They live to fight off boredom. Children would rather play passionately than eat! Adults need to, and often enjoy eating. In order to eat, we must earn. To earn, we must work. Responsibility replaced the time […]

Five Steps to Let Go of Bitterness

Have a Bitterness Bonfire! Bitterness is sneaky. It hunkers down in the corners of our mind, blends in, littering and limiting our life’s landscape. Hanging onto bitterness is like hanging a worm eaten apple on the wall to remind us that  things can go bad. Bitterness doesn’t just cause us to avoid bad apples, but […]

Five Steps to Forgiveness

Don’t Judge! (Don’t Be a Hater!) Social networking websites have done a wonderfully horrible thing by eliminating the distance between enemies. A friend request from someone who you feel offended you, might evoke, “Are they crazy?! They’re not getting away with what they did to me! I’ll decline, or better yet, ignore them so they’ll […]

How to Effectively Manage Everyday Stress Levels

Have you ever felt so stressed out you thought you’d explode at any minute? Well you’re not alone because today’s lifestyle and work culture are creating higher and higher levels of stress for many. Unfortunately, there is a big price to be paid for maintaining high levels of stress, which include health complications and emotion […]