Positivity is easy when everything is going your way and you’ve gotten an excellent night of sleep. But what about when you haven’t slept well, it’s pouring rain, and your dog, who abhors being wet, refuses to go outside to relieve himself? What about when your best laid plans are cancelled? When your beloved family member receives an alarming diagnosis? What about when we bump up against those who complain chronically, who spread negativity, and ...

  “I feel guilty,” she says, holding what she believes to be a hideous piece of ceramic selected by her blind aunt while vacationing. “I’m ashamed at how much I spent on this,” she confesses, reviewing the wardrobe society has told her she needs in order to be accepted. “I feel like I have to keep it in case she comes over,” she says of the item given to her by her mother’s good friend ...

Our brains, conditioned by society and governed by ego, tell us yes and no all day long. Intuition exists on a higher plane of knowing, and communicates via feelings. Feelings of excitement, curiosity, and anxious anticipation are all intuitive yeses. Feelings of obligation, guilt, drudgery, doubt: those are all intuitive nos. Intuition isn’t based on logic. It is instinctual recognition of alignment or the lack thereof with people, opportunities, and even ideas. If only that ...

  One of the most powerful yet overlooked abilities you possess is to continually invent and reinvent yourself. Whether or not you’re aware, you’re deciding who you are and who you’ll be all the time. You speak yourself into existence through the repetition of stories.   I am this way because of the way I was raised. I’m such a messy person. I’m so bad at time management. I'm the peacekeeper, responsible for holding everyone ...

So many people were taught to feel safe by stockpiling. Their cabinets are crammed with excess. Their lives are over scheduled with commitments that may or may not align with their values. In an honest attempt to ensure their every need is reliably met, this way of living creates a prevailing sense of anxiety. To live just-at or beyond capacity ironically produces the discomfort of lacking room to grow. When every bit of your bandwidth, ...