Is your happiness really dependent on results?
For most people, happiness and success are a function of the results they achieve. Their lives are dedicated to achieving results. The source of that almost obsessive focus on results is not hard to find. Virtually from the moment we are born, our parents stress the importance of results. When we do what they want us to do, we hear: “Good boy!” or “Good girl!” When we finish all our food, we hear: “Good for you; you ate all your food!” As we get older we hear: “Good job!” when we do our errands or clean our room. (Obviously there [...]
Are you really an imposter?
Do you ever question your abilities despite evidence to the contrary? Do you ever feel that you are a fraud because you think you don’t deserve your success? Do you ever think you are an imposter because who you think you are could never have achieved what you have achieved? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you are a victim of the “imposter syndrome.” What is the “imposter syndrome”? According to Wikipedia, “Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the [imposter] syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have [...]
Don’t Give Up. Ever. No Matter What.
How would you be living your life today if you hadn’t been able to speak until you were almost four years old and your teachers said you “would never amount to much”? … Please take a moment and answer this question right now. You will learn something very important. … It happened to Albert Einstein, who went on to become one of the most influential scientists of all time. How would you be living your life today if your life was totally about basketball and you had been cut from your high school basketball team? … Please take a moment [...]
Are You Really Successful If You Aren’t Happy?
Although a lot of people have succeeded very well based on society’s standard for success: how much money and power they have, many—if not most—of those people are not really happy or nurtured by their “success.” Arianna Huffington’s call for a redefinition of “success” In a recent issue of the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, posted the following: “I'm happy to announce that next week, on June 6th, Mika Brzezinski and I will be co-hosting the Huffington Post's first-ever women's conference, "The Third Metric: Redefining Success Beyond Money & Power." As the title makes clear, the purpose is to discuss ways [...]
Attract Money Now
If you are a reader of my weekly blog, you probably are interested primarily in personal/spiritual growth, by which I mean improving the quality of your life and/or becoming more spiritual, achieving more success, by which I mean earning more money or having an abundance of wealth in your life. Negative, limiting beliefs are a barrier to both goals, but I usually tend to write more about the first goal. Today I want to focus more on the second one. Over the weekend I read a book by Joe Vitale, a friend of mine and one of the people I [...]
What should I do to get what I want?
Thank you very much for the overwhelming response to my request last week for blog topics. The questions that seem to have universal appeal I will answer in my weekly blog. Comments and questions that deal with specific personal issues I will respond to directly as soon as possible. This week I will answer a question I hear frequently in various forms: What should I do to get what I want? To begin with, there is no single “right” way to accomplish anything. What works for some people, won’t necessarily work for others. And what is effective today, won’t necessarily [...]
