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Excite Your Life: Escaping the Habituation Trap

Habituation is the human propensity, in scientific terms, ‘to diminish our response to constant stimuli over time’. Or in plain English, our

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Think the Right Thought

What does “Think the Right Thought” mean? First, acknowledge that you have the ability to choose the thoughts you think. Now it

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Take a Vacation… From You

Have you ever wondered what could be? Noticed how others, not that different from you, have qualities and habits you’d like to

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True Grit: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

True Grit: Call it resilience or perseverance or determination or courage or fortitude or toughness. Call it all of those things and

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Do You Experience Goal-incongruent Emotions?

Negative emotions such as doubt, fear, anxiety, depression, despair, guilt, or shame all weaken us, detract from our focus, sap our energy

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Your Thoughts Create

What are you creating? What do you choose to observe? What thoughts do you choose? What identity do you don? What mood,

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How Many You’s Make Up You? Which You Do You Answer To?

We all have many sides, many selves within us; conflicting wishes, drives, and emotions, making the old quote ‘To thy own self

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Inner Scorecard or Outer Scorecard?

Inner success or outer success? Which matters most to you? Where did your values and beliefs come from? Truly yours, the result

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What is your Ikigai?

Ikigai (ee-kee-guy) is a combination of the Japanese words ‘iki’ (to live) and ‘gai’ (reason) literally meaning ‘reason to live’. What constitutes

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Try the Other Handle

“Every event has two handles—one by which it can be carried, and one by which it can’t. If your brother does you

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Do You Ask Dirty Questions?

In this context, a Dirty Question is one that either: contains the biases and assumptions of the questioner or presupposes/directs the answer

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There has got to be a Morning After

We have all heard of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder); less is written about PTG: Post Traumatic Growth. PTG is the positive