How to Achieve Your Goals

Fear Happens: It’s How You Handle it that Counts.

[weaver_youtube https://youtu.be/BdCwf0LnWz4 sd=0 percent=50 ratio=.5625 center=1 rel=0 https=0 privacy=0] Your past successes aren’t what make you afraid. Each time something doesn’t happen according to how you planned it, your mind registers it as failure. And since most of us hate to fail, we start to fear it. And that fear can paralyze us. We’re all…

5 Ways to Change Your Thinking

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein. How do you change your thinking so you can solve problems more effectively? Here are five ways to get started: 1. Don’t assume your personality is immutable. “I’m stubborn.” “I don’t remember names well.” “I’m a…

Scattered, smothered, and covered

As much as I know that staying focused is critical in achieving my goals, I’ve come to realize over the past few days that I’m not even remotely close to focused right now. Each email I open, each blog I read, and each Facebook entry I scan seems to point to a new, shiny social…

A Morning Ritual That Lasts Until Afternoon

I’ve read several articles recently about the significance of establishing a morning ritual, and I agree that it’s important. I’ve known for years that morning is my most productive time of day, so anything that really matters to me, I do then. The only problem is that I have a *lot* of things that matter…