Today is the Boston Marathon. It’s the oldest continuing running marathon that attracts international elite athletes to compete in running 26.2 miles. Due to its competitive entry requirements, the field is limited to 30,000 entrants of which 80% must beat a qualifying time at another marathon in their age category. It’s not for the faint-hearted but for goal-driven, competitive personalities.
Tag Archives: Success
How to use positive psychology to kickstart your goals for 2018.
When I ask you, “how was your day?”, what is your response?
Do you immediately recount the negative experiences that have recently happened or are you able to identify some of the positive outcomes you may have experienced?
Most people dwell on the areas of their life that are not going well or where they have experienced negative emotions. This tendency is driven by the default wiring in your brain. Positive psychology and strength-based questions can help override your negative thinking and improve your capacity to create success in your life by focusing on what is going well for you now and building on your key strengths.
Stoicism revisited: how ancient wisdom can help you navigate uncertain times.
What do you when you are faced with uncertainty, fear, or stress? How do you cope with obstacles? Stoic philosophy could provide you with very useful tools to navigate life’s challenges.
Learn how the fear of success could be stopping you dead in your tracks.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
~ Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
Many people freeze when wanting to move forward because they are afraid of failure. But what if we are really paralyzed by the fear of success.
How to make perfectionism actually work for you.
Are you a perfectionist? Do people call out your perfectionism as a negative trait?
Often when I am striving to excel, persisting with the nitty-gritty to get something “just right,” and suddenly a roadblock or catastrophe occurs sending me off course, the advice I typically get is to:
How to move from a money scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset.
Family debt is at an all time high since the 2008 mortgage crisis. It appears that the rise in student college debt is contributing to this increase. While our economy is based on sustainable borrowing to fuel jobs and growth, has US family debt gone too far?
How much debt are you carrying? Do you feel like you never have enough money?
Digitally Distracted? 4 Tips to Conquer Screen Hopping
Is our technological boom derailing your ability to achieve success by hijacking all your time and your emotional stability?
Ask yourself:
- Are you unable to perform concentrated work for 25 minutes without changing screens?
- Do you find yourself constantly checking email or social media updates every minute?
- Are you impatient when something doesn’t happen within nanoseconds?
- Does frustration or despair dominate your emotional state when goals or desired outcomes don’t instantaneously manifest?
3 Powerful Lessons from Hidden Figures
Based on the historically accurate book written by Margaret Lee Shelterly, Hidden Figures, directed by Ted Medfli is a film that stirs your soul with admiration and inspiration for the three trailblazing African-American heroines who worked as mathematicians at NASA during the early years of the space program back in the early 1960s.
Social change requires you to dream big like MLK and agitate the status quo.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day highlights an opportunity for us to reflect on our community, our hopes and dreams, and our path to a better future.
The Reverend King inspires us to not only pursue our dreams and goals but also to fight against injustice and social inequity. He challenges us to become agitators.
In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. King talks about his desire to foster tension because the community has become complacent. He is referenced as an “outside agitator.”
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Discover how to breakthrough your career blahs in 2017.
“Find your passion and the money will follow.”
“Do what you love even without a business plan.”
These Pollyanna statements cause a nauseous feeling in the pit of my stomach because they mislead you into thinking that life is easy, blissful, and that money just shows up.
