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25 Life Lessons from the Ballroom
Everything you need to know about life you can learn from ballroom dancing. The way you do anything is the way you do everything, so as you watch Dancing
Do People Change In a Relationship?
If you are looking for a short answer, and don’t feel like reading the whole article, here is the answer: no, people don’t change in relationships.
Should Your New Year Resolution Be Realistic?
Do you wonder as you are making your New Year resolution: “Do my goals have to be realistic, or can I just write whatever I want?” Go ahead, write
How To Give The Perfect Gift
A few months before my 20th birthday, my Grandmother asked me what kind of Birthday present I would like. At that time, I was away in college. I would call Grandma
How to Heal the World Starting Now
So, here it comes: the world at large is healed and managed the same way your body is healed and managed by you. Learn to rule your body wisely, and you can heal the world using the same principles.
How Do You Know It’s Time To Leave Your […]
You know it’s time to leave your […], when… You passionately hate your commute to […]. On daily basis. In both directions. You roll your eyes slightly before each encounter
Are You Good Company?
Are you good company? I’m sure you are nice. And funny. And well-mannered. You mostly know when to say something, and when to keep quiet, right? Yet, being good company
Are You Enough?
I sat down on a bench, proud of myself for jogging to the park rather than driving. The baby was sleeping peacefully in the stroller. 2 minutes of peace. Catching
The Key to Being Perfect
I remember eating a perfect peach. Every crunchy bite of it separated easily from the pit. The peach was sweet and sour at once, but mostly sour. It was “low maintenance”
Taking Chances (Or the Worst Thing That Can Happen to Banana Bread)
I was craving something sweet this morning. Since we had a few very ripe bananas in the kitchen, the answer seemed obvious: banana bread. There was only one problem
Personal Myth to Debunk: “I don’t know” (Part 5 of 5)
Your mind has a tendency to close the gap between what you think and what you see in the world. For example, if you tell yourself “the world is full of men in blue shirts!”, you will be surprised how many men in blue shirts you will start noticing all of a sudden.
Personal Myth to Debunk: “People Won’t Approve!” (Part 3 of 5)
This is the second of the five-part series of the blog that address personal myths we can drop in order to feel more peaceful and powerful. Yesterday we talked about
Personal Myth to Debunk: “I’m not cut out for this!” (Part 2 of 5)
Yesterday, we started talking about personal myths to debunk for a peaceful and powerful life. Let’s dive right into myth #1, and see how it can be replaced with an
Personal Myths to Debunk For a Peaceful & Powerful Life (Part 1 of 5)
Do the personal myths that you tell yourself help you or harm you? Personal myths are stories that we tell and re-tell to frame and understand the world around us.
Turning Passive-Aggressive Gratitude into Wholehearted Gratitude
Do you ever experience a “thanks, BUT…” kind of gratitude? It’s a kind of passive-aggressive gratitude: you are thankful for something, yet you almost wish the thing that you
Who Judges You?
If thoughts like “What will people say?” or “My boss will never approve” or “My family will disown me if…”, then this post is for you. As you put your
Getting Approval
Thought leaders such as Seth Godin and Melea Seward say that you don’t need to wait for anyone’s approval to start doing your work in the world. In principle, I agree.
Motivation to Get Started
What keeps you from getting started and how can you overcome that barrier? Your willingness to start something new has a lot to do with how skillfully you handle your