Remember the mood ring? You put the ring on your finger and watched the stone change color. It would tell you what you were feeling. It sounds so silly now, especially since I have learned so much about the brain, but it was fun. Recently I heard someone talking about the mood of America and […]
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In thinking about the topic for today’s email, I googled positivity and came up with 52,300,000 responses. That is a lot of information. If you had the time to go through and read all the articles and posts, would it make you more positive? Not likely. We can read books about cooking, eat a lot
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Something you may know about Dr. Paul is that I love family. I love my family. We had an opportunity recently to have all 4 kids at home for a week with their spouses and kids (and dogs). It was a crazy time as it seemed Jenkins’ were spilling out of the house. Vicki and
Do you ever get the feeling that some people are living for future happiness? For a time when there will be no problems and then they can be happy? They are waiting to be happy. That just makes me sad. I will be happy when I find someone and marry. I will be happy when
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If your default is to negativity, you can learn to be more positive! My friend Devan Thorpe asked me on LinkedIn if our optimism setpoint is immovable or can we learn to be more positive? Unless you missed it, I am a Positive Psychologist. I answered that through research and clinical experience many aspects of
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Evaluation and creation. These are two processes that constantly go on in our mind and control or set the stage for pretty much everything else. It is important to start from gratitude because gratitude changes the game. I think that there’s a real key in the word practice. Scott Wilhite, who wrote the book, The
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Paul: Make sure you are in the right place, because if you are a perfect parent, this is not for you. This planet is populated with imperfect people. In fact, I think that’s perfect. I have a little mantra and I do this with my clients. Vicki, you’ve heard this before. You are perfectly designed
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So I’m touting positivity all the time, I’m the positivity shrink. Negativity actually affects our brain in real ways and we have a choice to be positive or negative. Where is your thinking? The first video I released on my YouTube Channel, Live On Purpose TV, talked about how to stay positive no matter what.
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Why are we even having this conversation? Because it’s challenging, it’s difficult. If you’re in a relationship with someone and then a separation occurs, usually that separation is a result of a number of different factors. And you know what they are, right? Oftentimes, it’s because there were some difficulties, there were some challenges. Some
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Your brain is created for efficiency and one way it accomplishes this is through neural pathways or programming. Think of cruise control or autopilot. If you want to change your programming, it’s going to take some intention and you are going to have to do this intentionally. The first thing that is required is an
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