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Eliminate Your Self-doubt Forever
When you try something new, your brain flags it as a threat and it does it even if it’s good for you. Self-doubt shows up when you step outside your usual self. It’s not judging your abilities. It’s a signal that you’re doing something your current identity hasn’t done before. Your nervous system looks for…
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You Live for Three Reasons
A “really complete” life requires simultaneous expansion of these three, and an unexpressed potential in any one of them shows up as chronic dissatisfaction or “unsatisfied desire.”
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The Soul: The Organizing Center of Your Experience
Many people see the soul as a ghostly thing that lives within our body. What is our soul? It has been described as our spirit and deeper purpose. What’s a better way to describe it? A more flexible way to describe the soul is: The organizing center of your experience.
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The Psychology of The Science Of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles
If you learn these rules and actually stick to them you’ll become wealthy, if you can navigate the road blocks. That’s not just a theory tossed around for fun. It’s something people have tested, and it works. Rhonda Byrne told a Newsweek interviewer that her inspiration for creating the 2006 hit film The Secret, and…
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The Psychology of Why Your Kindness Can Turn Into Disrespect
You might have noticed that the more you give, the less people seem to care. The more patient you are, the more they push your limits. Many people think kindness means you’re weak. They believe being nice means you won’t stand up for yourself. But that’s not true. Kindness is not weakness. Love is not foolish.…
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How To Truly Motivate Yourself To Do Anything
Your brain doesn’t like being told things it doesn’t believe, and it especially doesn’t like being commanded to do something. When you try to force motivation through declarations, your words often just bounce right off. There’s a better way that actually works with how your brain naturally operates. In 2010, researchers ran an important study.…
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The Psychology of Guilt Corrects, Shame Withdraws: Why This Distinction Changes Everything
These aren’t just different ways of thinking—they activate completely different neural pathways with measurably different effects on your cognitive functioning. Guilt activates your anterior cingulate cortex, the brain region responsible for error detection, conflict monitoring, and course correction. This is your brain’s quality control center.
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The Unexpected Power of What We Say: A Reflection on “Hung by the Tongue”
Some books arrive precisely when you need them most. Hung by the Tongue by Francis P. Martin was one of those books for me—unexpected, unplanned, yet exactly what I needed to hear back in the early 1990’s. Here are 10 Life-Changing Principles from “Hung by the Tongue.”
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Newsletter: A College Degree Might Cost More Than It’s Worth
You and a classmate leave high school with the same chances. The choices you make next can change your financial path for decades. One person follows the usual route and takes student loans for a four-year degree. The other starts working, saves, and invests instead.