Re-write Your Gospel
August 13, 2012
By Guest Blogger
I did something wonderful and adorably dorky tonight in the name of self-love. I worked on my new gospel. For 30 minutes on my car ride home, I spoke out every damn thing that went right. I accounted for every person I could think of who I met at the exact right time, who taught me exactly what I needed to learn. I channeled Al Green and transformed my ballads into sweet love songs. That… Read More >
2011: A Good Year
December 29, 2011
By Rolf Gates
I have had a good year. The fact of it keeps surprising me because I am so used to problems. And recently I have been experiencing longer and longer stretches without problems. Life just seems to be unfolding without them. In their place have been a lot of things to appreciate. Not only have things felt really fun and worthwhile, I have also not had the sense that sometime soon the other shoe will drop… Read More >
Happiness is a Skill Worth Developing
December 22, 2011
By Guest Blogger
Over the last 17 years, I’ve seen dramatic business turnarounds in as little as a week — the only change being an increase in a person’s happiness. The results I’ve witnessed have been dramatic. My clients on Wall Street made better trades, CEOs made more profitable decisions, and sales people made more sales, all with a shift in their mindset, which led to greater well-being. As a result, in the late 90s I decided to… Read More >
The Source of Wealth: Upgrade Your Mindset to Upgrade Your Wealth
December 20, 2011
By Guest Blogger
In a seminar several years ago, I heard the speaker read a quote: ‘The world moves out of the way for him/her who knows where they are going.” I’m unsure of the author, but several years later, I still remember the quote and how it moved me to tears. Imagine the world moving out of the way for an idea or goal that you have. Imagine being able to achieve the perceived impossible. Imagine the… Read More >
It’s Not Going To Turn Out The Way You Thought
August 15, 2011
By Kate Northrup
It will happen later. His best friend will ask you out instead. You’ll be kissed in the movies instead of on a beach. You’ll end up going to a different school because the one you thought you’d get into didn’t work out. She’ll move away. Someone else will move in next door. She’ll be a little weird at first, a little more shy, but ultimately really good at riding bikes and playing dolls. That part… Read More >
You Have the Power to Choose
June 6, 2011
By Patricia Moreno
When I was 12 years old, I had a bone marrow disease in my left arm. The night before a possible amputation, my father sat by my side and took me through a guided visualization of an army of little soldiers marching into the infection. With picks and shovels, they cleaned it out, and one by one, we watched as they marched the infection out of my body. Except for my left arm being a… Read More >
How to Find the Right Therapist for You: Part One
February 17, 2011
By Leslie Carr Psy.D.
As my sister Kris has just finished touring the country to promote her best-selling book “Crazy Sexy Diet,” I’d like to draw attention to a key aspect of her message: In addition to what we eat and drink, we are all made up of what we think. Kris often talks about the importance of “cleaning out one’s cubbies” as a metaphor for navigating our inner terrain, and I love her expression. So as the… Read More >
Vote for Your Thoughts
January 4, 2011
By Laurie Gerber
You have the right to vote for which thoughts you want to listen to and which ones you want to ignore. Usually it’s easier to convince my clients they can choose how to act than to convince them they can change how they think. Thinking just seems so automatic that we believe we can’t change it. The truth is we are not very talented at controlling our minds because we don’t practice, and we don’t… Read More >
