Are you the same person when the world is watching as when it’s just you alone? Do the big, important parts of you stay the same? Or are you as changeable as a politician reading the latest survey results? The standards you hold yourself to – do they disappear until there’s an audience?
Today guest writer [...]

Habits.
Once you’ve found an effective way to do something, you develop a habit that makes it easy to keep on doing it. Things become easier and easier. But where exactly is that “easier and easier” – that momentum – taking you? Which direction is it headed?
If you don’t like the implications of that question, this [...]

If you’re content with your present life circumstances, if you’re happy and comfortable, if everything is a perfect fit for you, then my friend, you’ve attained enlightenment.
But for the other 99.9999 percent of us, there may be some things we’d like to adjust about our life.
Today, guest writer Peter Vajda invites you to look at [...]

Hey, there’s a reason people say “no news is good news.” Carol Look is an EFT practitioner and teacher, and in her latest ezine, she writes:
I’m beginning to get saturated with all the bad news these days — from the media as well as from people all around me. It’s not that I don’t [...]

You can find wisdom in the darndest places. This terrific quote came from an old mystery novel “The Tartan Ringers” by Jonathan Gash (page 107).
And happiness brings luck, though folk mistakenly assume it’s the other way round.
That’s important enough to write down and remember.
Cheers, Charles

Sometimes ya just gotta mix a little silliness into the things you’re doing. It’s called fun. And in that spirit, I’m sharing with you a couple minutes of laughs I pulled from recordings of our mastermind group’s sessions. It was originally just for our own “internal consumption,” but it’s just too goofy to resist sharing. [...]

Everyone can think of an insensitive, maniplative boss, co-worker or family member who often steps on everyone else’s feelings. This is common among those who are so intent on “getting ahead” that they have no time for nor interest in the well-being of those around them.
And if you’re that insensitive person, the highest price of [...]

Curt Rosengren at The M.A.P. Maker blog has developed an interesting take on self improvement. (The M, A and P in the blog name, by the way, refer to Meaning, Abundance and Passion in your life.
In an article titled “Create a Better Life with 30-Day Experiments” Rosengren observes that it’s hard getting himself to do [...]

Remember how the gurus all recommend spending your time in the company of successful people so that their success mindset will rub off on you?
This is good advice, and it’s worth going out of your way to do.
But the other day I discovered that this principle also applies to another important area of your life.
Last [...]

A quick heads-up — a delightful new self help website has just been opened called Self Help Collective. It’s by my friend Steve M. Nash, an unassuming guy who likes to have fun with everything he does (meaning he’s not all puffed up with self importance). And this new website reflects his personality perfectly.
Furthermore, Steve [...]