Something that I was taught when I first started doing personal development was to use affirmations at important times during my day (eg: when first waking up, on a break, before important events, before bed etc) as it would help set my state and get me into the right frame of mind. The problem […]
Some days are great! Others are terrible! And sometimes you just aren’t so sure what they are??? I used to always get annoyed at myself when I would under perform in some way in my personal life and wonder why I wasn’t able to do my best work. Or perhaps I wasn’t being such a […]
Living in a van can be a beautiful freeing exploration of the self, giving you the freedom to live and travel when, and where, you want. But it can also be very challenging as you interact with different parts of yourself, your beliefs, your systems and your rituals as you hold under a microscope many […]
Negative emotions can be the curse of many a happy successful human being. We get on a great run in life with friends, creative projects and our job and then something will happen where things will become “bad”. Two examples: You decide to give someone you love a gift, it could be something physical and […]
Jealously is a very common and also very misunderstood emotion, and, like many other emotions we often externalize and blame others for it. However, jealousy is very much ABOUT YOU. And better yet, it can also very easily fixed…BY YOU. Let me just cover first a very common mistake with people’s understanding of jealousy. People […]
If you wonder why you’re not having the success with money, in relationships or your career, you may have a little bit of FOMO going on. Unsuccessful freelancers (often these can be creative types and people attempting to be self-employed) go through this thing called the Fear of Missing Out. They don’t commit to something […]
I hate tax! Like seriously! I hate it so much I actually had to edit my initial draft down and remove the expletives from the blog! I have been trying to get my tax down for the past couple of months but this thing just keeps getting procrastinated under the guise of “I don’t […]
Like most things in life it takes practice to get better at something. Or as I like to say “exposure”. To me, practice implies that we must do it right. (Maybe this comes from the idea we are taught as kids that “practice makes perfect”.) In my mind, we really just want to expose […]
Is it Donald Trump? Global warming? The economy? I believe the biggest problem we have right now is actually that we are too comfortable in life. I think back to what it must have been like back in tribal days we humans would have to hunt for food (not that I was there of course)! The physical […]