Recently, I shared five ways to be more positive, based on the research of Shawn Achor, happiness expert and author of The Happiness Advantage and Before Happiness. One of those ways is practicing gratitude each day, and I got a lesson in gratitude this week. I was sitting in the passenger seat of the car while […]
A couple of weeks ago, I asked this question: “Are you celebrating your success?” The point is that many of us are always chasing success without pausing to actually celebrate the success we’ve achieved so far. Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, has studied and written about this extensively. In one of the most
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“I am a success.” When is the last time you said — or thought — those words? Within the last 7 days? The last 30 days? The last year? I asked that question while speaking to a group of martial arts school owners last week and only about 10% of them said they had said
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“Speed is a source of stimulation and fleeting pleasure. Slowing down is a route to depth, more enduring satisfaction, and to excellence.” – Tony Schwartz Today’s message comes via Bronnie Ware, an Australian nurse who worked for many years in palliative care. Her patients were those who had gone home to die, and she spent
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Today’s word is STRIVING, as in: Striving to overcome. Striving for perfection. Striving to get ahead. Striving to achieve our goals. And I think it’s time we put an end to it. Uhhh… I think I can hear the cries of heresy. Isn’t striving a good thing? After all, to strive is — according to
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