The Ultimate ‘Success-O-Meter’

The thing with us Personal Development types is, we’re always talking about creating our best life.Success.
Whatever that is.
We know that success is represented by different things for different people, but society teaches us that success is typically about money, position, attractiveness, power and influence.
Some more evolved souls have philosophies like:
“We make a living by what [...]

4 Defense Strategies to Becoming A Millionaire

Something happened to me that completely took over my mind and made me think non-stop about money. I completely transformed every facet of my existence to thinking more and more like a millionaire. Come on, you know you have it bad when you think about it during sex.
What type of mindset do you have to [...]

The Ancient Method For Creating A Life of Abundance

My good friend Rabbi Johnny Shippel shared a very interesting and thought provoking concept with me this weekend. He asked me which paradigm I thought was better to have, the cup half empty or the cup half full.
Without giving it any thought I played right into his trap! “Half full” is what I said. With [...]

Flip Your Karma: 8 Tricks to Turn the Bad Into the Awesome

It’s inevitable: sometimes, life just doesn’t go your way.
Your schedule gets all messed up. You fail to follow your exercise plan. Someone is mean to you. You feel like quitting something. You want to curl into a little ball and cry.
Life deals out its blows, and leaves us discouraged, angry, frustrated, depressed, drained. And once [...]

20 Qualities for a Successful Life

How do you define a successful life? Is it by how much money or stuff you have amassed, or is it by the legacy you leave behind? All too often we equate a successful life with material possessions. Yet, there are millions of people out there who lead successful, fulfilled lives who may be of [...]

Four Steps To Achieve Happiness, Fulfillment and Success in Your Life

There are four steps you can take, every day, to help bring fulfillment into your life, achieve happiness and help you attain success. Though it may seem impossible, taking these four steps will actually help set you up to achieve these goals and, even more importantly, will help you become a better person and define [...]

How to Stick to Your Goals When Life Disrupts

Have you ever been doing great with a goal or habit change — exercise, waking early, becoming organized, eating healthy, anything — and your progress was completely disrupted because of some major event in your life (death, marriage, illness, work, etc.)?
Of course you have. It’s happened to all of us.
Life gets in the way.
Fortunately, although [...]

Building Your Self Esteem From Scratch

People whose self-esteem is low have emotional health that is likely to be poor. If you don’t think very highly of yourself, you become a sitting duck for any neurosis. A neurosis is a way of relating to life. When we come under the threat of anxiety, in an effort to manage the anxiety in [...]

31 Ways to Motivate Yourself to Exercise

There are a million ways to motivate yourself to exercise, actually, but these are a few that have worked for me. And trust me, I’ve had days when I’ve struggled with exercise. Most recently, the things that have helped include finding a workout partner (one of the best motivators!), logging my exercise, reading magazines, books [...]

12+ Holiday Tradition Ideas to Bring Families Together

When you were growing up did your family have some traditions that you now remember fondly? Would you like to create that for your family?
Family traditions are a great way to keep families bonded and happy. By taking some time to consciously start some traditions you can shape future memories that will be filled with [...]