Recently I wrote a post about how we were meant to change. We are not meant to stay the way we are, but are constantly evolving, hopefully for the better as we have experiences and figure things out. As I work with people who want to make changes, they usually want a huge change and
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Often when I meet people they aren’t at the best place they have ever been in their lives. They may have been beaten down by another person, circumstances, the economy, or themselves. Regardless, they often feel that they have tried EVERYTHING. In fact, they tell me they have. There is nothing else for them to do. And
Don’t compare yourself to others. Don’t judge others. You hear it all the time. But we do. We can’t help it. We are constantly comparing and judging. It is part of being human. Try to shut it off for a day and see how many times you find yourself judging and comparing. We are taught
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Both are an absolute. Which do you choose to believe? Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift, or in this case, punctuation, for what was closed to open. Notice that I’m Possible doesn’t mean that you have arrived at your destination. It merely opens up the destination as something that can happen. Possible means
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The other day I was doing a task around the house and I took a shortcut. It wasn’t really so much a shortcut as just being sloppy. My mind was on the next task. I stopped and said out loud, “You can do better.” Now no one was around to see and who knows if
People come to me and say, Dr. Paul, I want to be a better person, a better mom. I want to develop better relationships or people skills. I want to be happier or more positive. And I ask them, so that…? The things they want to accomplish are all good, they are admirable, but the
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People would rather administer a shock to themselves than spend time alone with their thoughts. Wait. What??? Those are the findings of a study by Timothy Wilson, University of Virginia, professor of psychology. The people were given a set number of minutes, between 6 and 15, and some were told to free-think and others prepared
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Recently my daughter, Lyndi, published an article called, Seeing People Deeply: How to Be More Present in Your Relationships. She gave three really good ideas on how to do this and I wanted to share them with you. You can read the full article HERE. She starts the article talking about the deep need that
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