Self-Improvement: Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Your Life

So many people talk with me about the “big” things that are stressful.  Often, it is the “little” things, however, that either contribute to the problems or prevent the individual from coping with them.  Following are ten things that you can do to keep the stress in your life to a minimum:

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Book Review: Blink – The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell, who is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the popular book “The tipping Point – How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” wrote this bestselling book “Blink” which is acclaimed as “one of the most influential books of the past decade.
Blink is combines the study of

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Business: What Do You Do If Your Job Is Suddenly Gone?

We are living in a world that is suffering from economic problems and this affects all aspects of our lives.  Unemployment rates are rising and no one seems to be protected from lay offs and terminations even when they have given loyal service to their employers for many years.  This article offers suggestions for dealing [...]

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Journalling – “Dear Diary”

Thoughts go around and around and around in your head but when you write them on paper they have a beginning and an end. 
 
My Aunt Eleanor kept a daily diary and whenever we wondered about the details of an event or circumstance she could fill in the missing information by merely looking it up.  [...]

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Upset: What Should You Do? H.A.L.T.

Sometimes our feelings and needs are jeopardized by factors that we can but fail to control.  There is a neat little formula that we can use to identify inner signals and reduce our personal vulnerability.
 
H – stands for hungry.  I tell my clients that I am like a baby.  If I don’t eat or sleep [...]

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The Psychology of Money

The people who tend to complain about money seem to fall into three categories.  There are those who don’t have any, those who spend more than they earn and those who have money but are terribly afraid of losing it.
 
Throughout history, money has been a topic of discussion and debate.  Expressions such as “money doesn’t [...]

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Listening to Your Own Self-Talk

I was sitting in the Cypress Club one day and noticed that my usually calm state was agitated.  It took a few minutes to realize that the music coming from the sound system was not only loud but not the usual peaceful “elevator style” that could bring calm to any environment.
 
I noticed that my [...]

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Musically Speaking: Self-Talk

My dad used to say that he always knew who was at home when he arrived.  If he smelled something cooking he knew it was my sister, Debbie.  If he heard piano music he knew it was me.
 
From the time that I was a baby, my dad sang to me.  My mother, to the horror [...]

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Rock a Bye Baby!

Don’t think of elephants?
 
What are you thinking about?   Elephants, right?
 
Frequently I hear clients who repeatedly state “I can’t sleep”.  They don’t realize that our brains tend to do what they hear and by saying this, we actually invite the body to stay awake.  There are a number of factors which can initially interfere with [...]

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Attitude of Gratitude

Often parents come to complain to me because their child has “an attitude”!
 
The dictionary defines attitude as a “state of mind or feeling”.
 
We all have attitude!  Some of us have an attitude that is defeatist while others believe anything is possible.  There are attitudes involving self-esteem where some people feel unworthy of respect allow others [...]

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