The Journey to Self Discovery

If we’re interested in living the freedom that we know is possible, we're asked to look at all the ways we keep ourselves separate from it.  And for some of us, one of those ways is to live in regret of our past actions. Here’s the scenario. Whether you intended to or not, you’ve done something that hurt someone else or yourself, and you just can’t let yourself off the hook. You can’t stop repeating the story of what you think you did wrong in your mind, convincing yourself that you’re damaged and unworthy. It’s like you’ve created a movie of what happened, and you keep pushing play—over and over. And the images of what you did and the choices you made recycle in your mind nonstop. If this is what’s happening to you, something needs to change for you to come to peace. If you continue to punish yourself and believe that you’re bad to the core, you’ll live in this shame forever. So how to release yourself from the prison of feeling bad about your past...

Anger is not a bad thing, if it is APPROPRIATELY EXPRESSED. Expressing it inappropriately will usually get us nowhere and can badly back-fire. However, its appropriate expression is often most effective. As we begin to realize that what was done to us as children was wrong, anger often emerges (especially when we start to understand all the ramifications of how we have subsequently been affected by it). Repressing anger (‘bottling it up’) is often painful and stressful. We can also get to the point when we can contain it no longer and this might result in it being MISDIRECTED (expressed against the wrong person) or in it being expressed in a DESTRUCTIVE and DAMAGING way (to both ourselves and those we interact with). It is much better if anger is MANAGED and only expressed in a manner which is beneficial. For some, expressing anger gives rise to a feeling of power, the power that was denied us in childhood, and can therefore feel that by expressing this...

5 Things Hindering Your Growth In Life Back when we were kids, we knew what we wanted to do when we grew up. There’s the usual slew of wanting to be doctors, lawyers, scientists, astronauts, etc. Some of us got to follow through with those childhood dreams while the rest are living a life that’s not quite what they want it to be. So for those still figuring out how to start living the life they want, you might want to look out for these signs that are hindering you from going after your happiness. Dishonesty is Not a Policy When has hiding something or denying a truth done something good for you? Never. It always backfires or finds its way somehow to surface. Expending energy trying to live a life other than an honest one is a waste of both your energy and your life. The sooner you can grow into your own truth, to live with as little hypocrisy or lies that you can, the happier you would become. After all, this is your life. As long as you’re not tramplin...

A motivational speaker or inspirational speaker?  Which one are you or which one do you want to hire?   A motivational speaker rejuvenates employees and delivers encouragement that is meant to increase productivity, amplify sales, decrease employee burn out and boosting positivity in the customer service department. The motivational speaker will most likely teach you important tools on how to achieve a specific goal and then propel you to act immediately on your goal. They motivate employees and leadership in an effort to boost efficiency as well as bring excitement to your team. Motivational speakers offer a solution based consulting and help organizations have the right positive mental attitude to get the job done effectively. Motivation is about being focused on. It’s the “how” as in how are we going to accomplish the goal in the short term? Inspiration is your “why” and taking action on it. It’s long-term and pulls you into a greater perspective regarding y...

Knowledge is power! We all can agree on that.  But not everyone's idea of knowledge is the same. Like for one who has aspirations to go beyond what his or her family has accomplished to a doctorate and for someone who understands their struggles with testing may decide to open a business accentuating their skill set.  But i t's never too late to start learning anything! And with all of that we cannot and should not compare ourselves to others.   Last week I was part of a networking event and upon my first exchange of a business card, I met an attendee who proceeded to give me their entire resume from grade school.  Yeah, you could imagine my face and my left leg shaking with anticipation to exit stage left.  Now that was balled up in a great script which meant nothing to me and all to the orator.  I was lost in the exchange leaving me as a casualty of the viciousness of divorce in the "war of the roses" movie. ...

The auditions were harsh and the requests even more difficult. I showed up to a modeling job interview only to find a pompous SOB sitting behind the desk giving me the once over, to walk the imagined runway to sit on his lap. I didn't want to believe that just being who I was, was enough. It was enough, yet no one told me or the pompous SOB! I had power and to scream out, to refuse his advances and to report him. That was my final interview for Vogue. His advances scarred me. I lost my power but now I am super again just because I see others who may end up where I was. So I run back down the road I got off of so many years ago, just to scream!!!!!! I am enough and I don't deserve your grooming or abuse. I can be a woman the sexual being I was born to be... and so can you. My story is this story.... The depiction of these girls is not prudish , but it’s also not fraught with a kind of anxiety that seems to hold young girls implicitly responsible, by t...

The crispness of a new shirt, the thrill of polished shoes – graduation day euphoria still lingered as I approached the imposing office building. My first real job! But then, a rogue thought snuck in: "Is this the right place for me?" Suddenly, butterflies morphed into full-blown fear. What if I hated the work? What if I was a total flop? Worst-case scenarios flooded my mind: getting fired, unemployment, financial woes. The Positive-to-Panic Plunge That one thought had triggered a mental U-turn, derailing my initial excitement. We've all been there – one random thought spirals into a vortex of anxiety. The culprit? Our minds, often running on autopilot, feeding negative thoughts until they snowball. The Power of Stopping the Spiral But what if the moment that negative thought pops up, we simply let it go? Like flicking off a switch, we banish it and reclaim our positive mind space. Imagine the control! Mastering Your Mind, Mastering Your Life Eckhart Tolle offers powerf...