Can doing the hokey-pokey help you lose weight?
Do you still clean your plate because there are starving children somewhere in the world? The same thing that holds us back can leverage us for success.
Once I had a fear of spiders
There was a time that proximity to a spider would have sent me screaming. After 30+ years of studying hypnosis, that’s changed.
How hypnosis is like setting up a tent
A little preparation goes a long way toward a successful hypnosis session.
Do you hate change?
We’ve all heard the saying, “Change is hard.” But is it? Let’s look closer and find out what that really means and how to make change easier.
Stress management: Controlling internal voices
A hawk flew over the apartment complex last week, and everything went silent. Not a peep from trees that moments before had been alive with the sounds of birds. Usually, birds are swooping back and forth across the parking lot, picking up bugs and seeds to take to their nests, singing and scolding each other, …
Weight loss misdirection and marketing
I get really irritated by those sneaky, lying weight-loss liars. I was at a church function recently where the icebreaker included naming your favorite movie (on this particular day mine was Groundhog Day) and reaching into a little tub full of movie candy and pulling out a box for your prize. I pulled out this …
Mother’s Day: Changing painful to peaceful
Every Mother’s Day, I marvel at the social-media photos of happy mothers and daughters. All those smiling faces. I wonder at the wistful memories from daughters who loved their moms, who miss their moms, whose moms were their friends. I am not that daughter, and she was not that mom. This post is for all …
Book Review: Positively Unstoppable
Almost everyone I know has seen the inspiring weight-loss and fitness transformation of Arthur Boorman, a paratrooper with a broken back who was told his case was hopeless. If you haven’t seen the video, go watch it now. I love Boorman’s story. It’s the very definition of “positively unstoppable.” The process he used was DDPY, …
Organizing our spaces: strategies and mindset
Jenni Holman of Leora Life Organization and Redesign and I just wrapped up the fourth and final episode in our short Facebook series about organizing. Whether you are organizing an office, a room, your entire business, or your whole house, there are ways to make the process less challenging and more satisfying. Jenni and I …
Book Review: One Simple Idea
Mitch Horowitz begins his history of the positive-thinking movement with memoir, sharing a humble account of how he became interested in the topic. He ends his book with a challenge to others to test the principles. Between those brackets, he sets out a feast for those of us who have been starved for substance when …