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    Getting To Happy: You’ve Got It All Backwards

    Reading Time: 3 minutes From the time we were very young, most of us were told: Put your head down and work hard! Nose to the grindstone! If you work hard, success will follow. Right? It’s part of our cultural mindset. Work harder, get what we want. Work harder, get more of what we want. Then...
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    I Don’t Care What You Think About Me

    Reading Time: 5 minutes “You don’t seem to give a crap what anybody thinks about you.” These were the parting words of a client as she fired me. This person wanted me to comment on some rumors that others had been spreading. I refused, explaining that as a rule I don’t talk about other people...
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    9 Eye-Opening Ways to Expand Your Empathy and Gratitude

    Reading Time: 8 minutes It’s a beautiful Sunday in San Luis Obispo, California (National Geographic and Oprah Winfrey’s “Happiest Place in America”). I’m returning home from a weekend of wine tasting in Napa with my beautiful wife and our closest friends. This was one of the first weekends in a...
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    Love, Friendship, and the Time/Money Tradeoff

    Reading Time: 9 minutes I believe you are suffering from an imbalance. We all are (in some way). We have emotional needs that go unmet, casualties of a world that de-prioritizes our mental state in favor of our material welfare. This is a full-blown cultural phenomenon, rooted in bias. We...
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    The 3 Elements of a Beautiful Life

    Reading Time: 5 minutes The concept of beauty is fascinating. The word has such diverse application that it seems to have no meaning. For example, Mike Tyson fighting under Cus D’Amato was a thing of beauty. But no less beautiful was the smile of Mother Teresa, who said, “If we have no peace, it...
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    Getting Past a Bad Day: 4 Steps to Moving On

    Reading Time: 6 minutes Life is full of hand grenades, unexpected explosions disrupting our best laid plans. They drop in unbidden, leaving our intentions scattered, our priorities re-organized, and our convictions questioned. They feel implacable and unstoppable, the new permanent state...
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    Navigating Life’s Road Bumps, Without Ending Up in the Ditch

    Reading Time: 5 minutes One of the joys of running the Whole Life Challenge is that I get a lot of my friends and family members to play along with me. It gives me an opportunity to talk about the Challenge with other players where the rubber meets the road, where people try and fit their life...
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    Why You Should Give Up Trying to Find Work-Life Balance

    Reading Time: 5 minutes Work-life balance. Business gurus and wellness experts have been talking about it for years. It has always struck me as some kind of mythical ideal. As if there is a perfect balance that can be struck between the two. I’ve never known anyone to find that balance, and...
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    The Busy Trap and How to Get Out of It

    Reading Time: 7 minutes I caught up with an old friend recently. When I asked how she was, she replied “Busy!” — as if I was interested in her to-do list rather than how she was feeling. Her response isn’t unusual. Many of us answer that question with “Busy!” before listing all the things we’re...
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    The 5 Most Dangerous Words You Will Say to Yourself Today

    Reading Time: 5 minutes The five most dangerous words you will say to yourself today are “I don’t feel like it!” Perhaps you’ve uttered these words already. Or perhaps that little voice inside your head has. These five words are a wall that prevents you from doing the work that needs to be done...
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    How to Access the Power of Intimacy in All Your Relationships

    Reading Time: 7 minutes Every day we wake up, we are faced with a colossal list of pressing matters we need to handle because we label them as “necessary.” We rush around trying to accomplish these things, but what we really need to do is start paying more attention to our pets. Our pets teach...
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    6 Details That Can Make the Challenge Different for You

    Reading Time: 5 minutes There can be a lot of discussion about fitness programs, diets, and products when it comes to deciding how to tackle your personal journey toward health, fitness, and well-being. There is no single answer for everyone. Yet, most approaches ask you to conform to a...
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    Hold Yourself Accountable: Why It Matters & How to Do It

    Reading Time: 10 minutes Have you ever made a list of goals and thought to yourself, “Tomorrow morning, I’m going to wake up and get started!” But tomorrow morning comes, and you think, “I’m going to sleep a bit longer, after all rest is important, right?” So, you rest and finally start your...
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    How to Identify Your Strengths (and Use Them in Your Life)

    Reading Time: 6 minutes If you ask any person within a 100-mile radius, they can list off their weaknesses without a second thought. You probably can, too. And you can do it with conviction. You’re pretty sure you’re right. But if you ask people to share their strengths, what kind of responses...
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    How to Become a More Positive Person in 24 Hours

    Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s pretty easy to imagine that positive thinking has a direct impact on your mental and emotional health, but the full truth is that positive thinking impacts every aspect of your life. Your physical health and well-being, your relationships, your career success, your...
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    Why You Need to Put Yourself First and How to Do It

    Reading Time: 6 minutes Before I had my daughter in 2005, at age 32, I spent my time boxing, surfing, traveling the world as part of my job with a tour operator, and fixing up a dilapidated beach house with my husband. I had lots of fun, but spent very little time doing things for other people...
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    How to Overcome Resistance (and Get What You Want in Life)

    Reading Time: 8 minutes Have you ever tried to make a change in your life — one that is positive, enriching, and constructive — but come up against your own self-defeating behaviors? Maybe you decided to start exercising, eating well, or sleeping better, yet you felt compelled to act in ways...
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    Here’s How to Turn Your Journal Into an Adventure

    Reading Time: 6 minutes Journals have been around since pen and paper were invented. Explorers, scientists, and artists have long kept diligent records of their journeys and creations. It’s been said that only by knowing where you are will you get to where you want to go. And, as it turns out —...
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    Why Your To-Do List Is Broken and How to Fix It

    Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the years I’ve developed a love-hate relationship with to-do lists. I’ve learned numerous productivity methodologies and found value in all of them, including David Allen’s GTD system, Kanban, and Bullet Journaling. Each of these systems has made me more effective...
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    Why You Should Avoid the Quick Fix (and How to Create Real Change)

    Reading Time: 6 minutes It seems the lure of the quick fix is all around us. Whether it’s the promise of six-pack abs in sixty days, the secret to wrinkle-free skin, the latest “miracle fruit” to melt fat, the genius pill to boost brainpower, the sure-fire way to marry a supermodel, or how to...

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