Remember how your mother used to teach you, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all”? The same can be said for thinking. Why harbor negative thoughts? self-deprecating thoughts? anxious, mean, or fearful thoughts? Those types of thoughts prevent us from being healthy and joyful. Therefore, if your thoughts aren’t aligned with …
We set goals, dream of ideal lifestyles, set intentions, and make plans – all of which is good, yet it keeps our thinking focused on the future. And when we spend too much time in the future, we may start to feel anxious. But the future isn’t here yet. And it isn’t guaranteed. So why …
Fear is a weird feeling that prevents us from loving and living fully. It’s a form of “not-love” and cousins to anxiety, resentment, and envy. Fear also becomes a thinking habit and a knee-jerk reaction to unexpected situations or whenever we feel uncomfortable. But we can break this self-deprecating habit by facing our fears on …
When we try to change our habits, we tend to focus on the habit we want to change. The problem with that is, we’re still thinking about the habit. The habit is still the focus of our minds. What we really want to do is stop thinking about the habit and start thinking about other …
We don’t need to suffer to give our lives meaning. Sounds weird, but we sometimes use suffering as a metric for how well we live and how much we love. But we don’t need to suffer to prove our love or justify our joy. It’s always okay to be happy no matter what happens – …
We tend to judge people and get overly concerned with how other people are living their lives when we feel dissatisfied with our own. See, our judgments are just projections of how we feel about ourselves – they really have nothing to do with the people we’re judging. So, instead of wasting time nitpicking other …
Life transformation starts with self-forgiveness. We have to clean the slate before we can build a new, sturdy foundation. And we have to practice acceptance at the most basic level, starting with ourselves. We need to forgive ourselves for our mistakes, imperfections, and embarrassments. We must accept that we aren’t perfect and will probably continue …
When something goes wrong, or when we don’t get what we want, we tend to dwell on it far too long. We let our minds hang out there as if thinking about every scenario and how things could have been different or what everybody did and said will keep it alive so that we still have …
Some mornings you wake up feeling like you can conquer the world. Other mornings…mmm…not so much. Maybe during the night, your brain processed all the recent happenings and started feeling intimidated by yesterday’s successes. Or maybe it relaxed because it felt secure, but then all the gremlins escaped through the cracks while it was sleeping. Either …
To achieve the life of your dreams, you need to align your thoughts with what’s truly important to you. If you have no idea what’s truly important to you, check out: What Is Your Purpose in Life? Do This and Find Out. Once you get a decent handle on what you truly value, the next step …
