Michael was depressed — again… “No matter how I struggle and try to control my mind, I can’t seem to make it obey me.”
A student of self-help for years, Michael had bookshelves filled with more than a hundred self improvement books. Most of them he had actually read and taken notes on. Scattered [...]

Seems like we’re constantly struggling for better understanding. Understanding of ourselves; of our problems; of the people around us.
So how’s that working out for you?
While it may be comforting to have a better handle on what’s going on all about you, and awareness is almost always better than being oblivious, understanding may be seriously overrated [...]

Once in a while I get an email that really makes me think more deeply than usual. This one came this morning from from Mark (not his real name), who is reading my book Command More Luck. He said:
I am currently focusing my mind on riches in order to manifest them. Although I do believe [...]

Most people’s affirmations don’t get past the end of their nose.
Mine never used to. There was a point in my mid-thirties when I had read so many books, with so little results, that I finally and firmly determined to grab my affirmations and MAKE them work.
I set up a work space, got a 3-ring [...]

It happens fairly often. About one customer in 100 steals from me.
But I’m not alone. Virtually every person I know who sells information products says they have the same experience.
No matter how good your product, no matter how much value you pile on, about one-to-two percent of your customers will order your product, download it, [...]

There are things you won’t do. You won’t willingly beat up a helpless person, abuse a baby, lie to your priest or minister (about most things), or commit murder.
But will you keep something that’s not yours?
Think carefully before you answer because this COULD develop into a trick question.
In today’s guest article, Ophelia Nicholson in her [...]

Although the details vary, there’s really only one way to influence the future — the active and vivid imagining of events.
If we’re imagining desirable events, we call this attraction work, doing affirmations, praying, doing requests or programming our minds.
Whichever term you use, this is the method you’ve been trying to master for some time now.
But [...]

My offbeat sale (the Hacking Revenge Celebration Sale) is now easing into its last day of fun.
If this were a regular sale, right about now all the “marketing gurus” would have me pouring on the pressure, piling on additional bonuses, and bludgeoning you with a river of urgent, last-minute emails to order, order, order before [...]

A reader recently told me:
I don’t want to change anything… except the results I’m getting
She went on to say, “I don’t dislike myself or have any areas I particularly want to change. I just want some of the things that happen in my life to be different.”
What she doesn’t get [...]

Are you getting what you expect? And if not, do you pout when you’re disappointed?
My wife and I have just moved to Thailand, and while I’ve eaten and enjoyed Thai food for years, being in the source-country of all that goodness has brought me a few surprises.
Take milk for example. At the grocery yesterday I [...]

Mike had run into a stubborn little glitch with his affirmations. “When I say the word ‘productive’,” he told me, “I get a little spike of self-doubt.”
Each time Mike affirmed that he was productive, it stirred up in him a deep feeling of mis-match — what psychologists call cognitive dissonance. This basically means he was [...]

A lot of the folks I know are setting new goals for 2008. But others, like my friend Patricia Zulkosky, have sworn off new year’s resolutions entirely.
Patricia started 2007 by announcing she was adopting a theme for the year rather than setting goals. In other words, she’d be moving toward a direction, rather than a [...]

You’ve known it all along. The way you think about your career controls how well (or poorly) that career goes.
Dr. Ellen Weber, on her Brain Based Business blog, discusses five tips for shifting the reality of your career and how well it’s going.
The following is just an excerpt. Go read the whole article. In fact, [...]

Been hearing it all my life - “The love of money is the root of all evil”.
It’s in the holy scriptures, right?
Of course, many teachers make a big deal, explaining the distinction that “It’s not money that’s evil, it’s the LOVE of money.”
Well, here’s the thing. Long before there was money (OR the love of [...]

A decision is a quiet, little thing.
When Jerry decided to build a house, he told almost nobody.
Newly married, he and his bride were living with his widowed mother. One morning he quietly announced, “I believe I’ll put up a house on the lot out back.”
About a month went by, and he said nothing more about [...]

“Son,” my Dad said, “You could screw up a one-man funeral.”
I don’t know how many thousands of times my father told me that while I was growing up, but it soaked in pretty deeply.
By the time I reached adulthood, I was convinced; nothing would ever work right for me; if there was a way to [...]

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a very special offer coming our way soon. The good news is, it’s here.
Now, many emails don’t make it through, so you may not have gotten my earlier note. Or maybe you were busy and missed my post here.
So let me recap here… John Harricharan is a highly [...]

Every time I read palms and do readings for people, I’m struck all over again by how common it is to worry. Nearly everybody’s doing it.
A few of the people I see are optimistic and upbeat in their thinking… a VERY few. The truth is, most people spend much of their time and energy dreading [...]

A question that I frequently receive concerns being surrounded by negative friends, co-workers or family members. A few days ago, I got another such email:
“My husband just doesn’t get it - I try to explain the laws of attraction, but he always rejects the idea, and sometimes ridicules me for my gullibility. How can I [...]

The email was practically flaming… some of it was unprintable, but a cleaned up, less blistering version went:
“I bought the book you recommended in your blog, and have been doing the exercises exactly like the author said. When am I going to start seeing results? It’s been six whole days now - I haven’t gotten [...]