Improve Your Mind

By: Lori Radun

The top two things that people seem to want more of are money and time. As a matter of fact, more money and more time are the top two issues people come to life coaches for (they also happen to be the top two excuses people use for not hiring a coach). It would be great if we had a money tree and a time tree in our backyard. That way if we ran out of either, we could just walk outside and pluck some off the tree. Unfortunately, God didn’t make those kinds of trees. Probably because He wanted us to become good stewards of our money and time. Just like we can learn to better manage our finances, there are things we can do to improve our time management. Outlined below are seven tips for gaining more time.
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By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

We hear a lot about how important it is to be compassionate toward others, and it is very important. The problem is that you may not be able to really feel compassion toward others until you are able to feel compassionate toward yourself.
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By Mark Tyrrell

Shy people instinctively know that they are missing out. Shyness equals lost opportunities, less pleasure and fewer social connections. Shyness can be crippling but there are tried and tested ways to make it a thing of the past.
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by Chuck Danes

Any great accomplishment that has ever been achieved has been brought about and made possible by an all important trait called persistence.
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by: Mark Machaalani

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else” said Benjamin Franklin. There is a lot of truth in this quote. Those, whom tend to be successful in life, do not get there by making negative excuses to themselves about how they can’t get there. In fact they do the opposite.
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by Steve Taubman

Once we observe our inner senses, and attain this perspective, we see the world and ourselves very differently. Addictions to substances, relationships, or thought patterns vanish, as we reidentify ourselves correctly, not as our mind, with all its erratic and inconsistent thoughts, but as our essence, our self, our soul, our pure consciousness.
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by: Steve Taubman

Sometimes a random word of kindness is all that’s necessary to transform someone’s entire existence, and it’s so little cost to us. There’s a wonderful story I heard several years ago. The teller, we’ll call him John, claimed that it was true. Read the rest of this entry »

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by Charles Burke

“Oh that would be too hard for me — I could never learn to do that.”

We’ve all heard these words… you may even have said them yourself. Tackling new skills can feel intimidating. But we only feel intimidated because we overestimate the task and underestimate our own abilities. We aren’t confident enough in our natural abilities. Take learning to drive for example.
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by Mark Tyrrell

Copyright 2005 Uncommon Knowledge Ltd

I used to be frighteningly under confident in social situations. And although people who know me now would never believe I used to doubt myself so much I literally had to learn confidence until it became a natural part of me. I can tell you relaxed optimistic confidence is just, well so much more fun.
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By: Debbie Friedman

Have you ever played the “What If” game with yourself? To be more accurate, has your MIND ever played that game with you?

Okay, if you’re human, and you probably are if you’re reading this, then you know how the game goes. You’re about ready to make a big step forward or try something new and all of a sudden the “What If’s” go wild.
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