Even though money can’t buy happiness solely on its own, because it takes an adjustment of attitude to truly find it, the more money we have the easier it is to find those moments of happiness. The thing with using our money to give us moments of happiness is that we need to spend it […]
Life has a way of bombarding us with elaborate lifestyles and luxuries of the rich and famous and sometimes not even famous people. From celebrities and professional athletes to founders and CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies to the local millionaire who owns a small chain of stores in the area. Whether we admit it to […]
Despite what many people might think, it doesn’t take motivation to take action, it’s actually the other way around! Motivation comes from taking action and once we’re motivated by our actions, we prime ourselves to take more action. A simple example from my own experience is when I don’t feel motivated to engage in my […]
Whether we like it or not making decisions is something all of us have to do on a daily basis, multiple times a day. We are constantly making decisions and most of the time we probably don’t even put much thought into it. Decision making happens on a few different levels. There are small level […]
At many points in our lives we’ve all experienced and have expressed our doubts about things. Of all the many different things we’ve doubted, the one most important thing that may be holding us back from achieving success is that we doubt ourselves. We doubt our own abilities to bounce back from setbacks and failures, […]
Before we can take advantage of our strengths, we need to find out what they are. There are various tools and methods to help us determine what our strengths are, from surveys to self-assessments to gathering feedback from other people who know us well. These various types of assessments can be easily found with a […]
We all have moments where we experience change in many areas of our lives…where we live, our beliefs, our careers, our health, our friendships and the list goes’ on. We sometimes choose to make those changes willingly and sometimes they are forced upon us from the outside. In either case, it can be a struggle […]
Any type of personal success can’t be achieved without self-discipline, whether the success we’re striving for has to do with our career, our health, fitness, even our finances. It is probably one of the most, if not the most important quality necessary to achieve excellence in anything we do. We might think that natural talent […]
When it comes to success and happiness in life, emotional intelligence makes it possible to reach our career and personal goals, succeed in work, and build relationships. People who are emotionally intelligent are able to recognize the emotional state of others as well as their own state to create a connection and form relationships. For […]
Emotional intelligence is the capacity to identify, comprehend, and manage our own feelings and the feelings of individuals in manners that are positive. We may think that being book smart and having a high intelligence quotient or IQ will guarantee a happy, successful and fulfilled life. If we look around, there is an assortment of […]