First published in SUCCESS You made it. You set a crazy cool goal and you reached it! But now the excitement is wearing off and that nagging there-has-to-be-more-than-this feeling is taking its place. You tell yourself, “I have every reason to be happy, so why do I feel this way?!” [...]
Confession: I sorta have a lil’ to-do list fetish. There’s something about the instant gratification of checking off or, even better, drawing a thick line through a TO-DO…especially if the crossed-off list is super long. One day, while indulging my inner overachiever, my husband Luca said, “Imagine putting all your [...]
If you’re in a funk, the easiest and fastest way out is through your body. Thanks to Amy Cuddy at Harvard and other researchers in this field, we now know that jazzing up your body for even just two minutes actually configures your brain to be assertive, confident, and comfortable, [...]
We say, “I think,” but what we really mean is: “thoughts come to me.” If you meditate, you know what I mean. The seemingly endless stream of thoughts that bombard the untrained mind can be overwhelming. […]
Do you have a dog? Or have you ever played fetch with one? If you have, you already know the secret to meditation. Picture yourself with a dog and a stick. The dog can think of nothing else. Even if his favorite cat comes around, […]
Can you do me a favor? Take a look at your calendar and tell me what you see. Do the entries read something like: pick up Sally from the airport; meet with Ron; take clothes to the drycleaner? […]
A few years back, NASA researchers outfitted a group of astronauts with convex goggles that altered their vision by 180°– turning their sight upside-down. The astronauts had to wear these goggles 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 30 days. […]
If I offered you $2.5 million dollars today OR a penny that would double in value every day for one month ($0.02 on day 2, $0.04 on day 3, etc.), which would you choose? […]
Have you ever noticed that when your space is cluttered and unorganized, you also feel overwhelmed and scattered? My niece Jamison was struggling with this messy-space-messy-mind feeling the other day. Her room was buried under piles of clothes, shoes, dust, and more clothes… […]
We’ve all heard “what you resist persists” … but we’re never told that “fixing” is a form of resisting. So we go around hell-bent on “fixing” ourselves. That’s what goals are typically all about, right? […]