But that is the way I am made. I can’t change. You are changing from the moment you are conceived. We were meant to change. We were meant to grow and develop. Even though your body may stop growing taller, what is inside, your brain, your character, your emotional maturity is still growing and developing. […]
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Hope: (verb) want something to happen or be the case. Sounds simple enough. Yet, I hear people say they don’t have any hope. And this disturbs me. Because this world needs hope. Almost everything that has been invented or created in this world has been because of hope. Someone hoped to be able to ship
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I was trained as a traditional psychologist, so I practiced like one. My patients were taught how to be a patient so they made an appointment, showed up, we talked for 50 minutes and they made another appointment on the way out. What I have discovered is that there are other ways to be a
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I like hacks. Not the kind of hack that gets personal and sensitive data from a computer system. I like the hacks that help us cut through thick things. Small hacks, help to cut through to what is really vital. Like when it seems there are 5 balls being thrown at you at the same
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Take Control of You and Your Home I promise myself I am not going to yell and do good for a day or so, then find myself back in my bad habits, help me to stop. I hear myself yelling and it reminds me of my mom. I don’t want to raise my kids like
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Don’t wait until everything is perfect. I recently gave this advice in the video just dropped to the YouTube Channel. This advice doesn’t apply only to the topic that Vicki and I were discussing. It applies to almost everything we do in life. If we waited until everything was perfect, how many things would we
Hello Friends, There are many things about the Christmas Season that I look forward to and you may also. Decorating our tree. Buying gifts for family and friends. Seeing light displays. Hearing Vicki sing in her Christmas Chorale. Reading Christmas books to the grandkids. Decorating gingerbread houses. Eating Christmas cookies. Connecting with friends and family
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In my Merry Christmas Email (and I hope you all had a Merry Christmas), I talked about The Feeling of Christmas. The Feeling is something I write about in Chapter 3 of my book, Pathological Positivity. The Feeling is a universally sought-after emotional state. We seek love, why? To have The Feeling. We seek money,
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It happens in marriages; it happens in families. It happens at work, school and in your community. Problems. There are always problems. News alert: There will always be problems… If you see them as problems. In my book, Pathological Positivity, I talk about “propportunities.” Instead of seeing a problem, see an opportunity. Changing the name gets our
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The comment went something like this, “I like the majority of what you say, but I just cannot agree with you on forgiveness. Can you honestly expect someone to forgive their abuser? That is just not o.k. Understanding what forgiveness is and what it isn’t will help us to see why we would choose to
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