What is the greatest key to success? Ask a group of people and you’ll hear many different answers. Discipline, hard work, intelligence, persistence, confidence, race, ethnicity, privilege, and luck usually top the list. I hear this question time and again and I often ask myself the same thing. Did one characteristic lead to my success […]
Happiness
Can Money Buy Happiness? How to Measure Your Joy
Can money buy happiness? Psychologists have been investigating this question for decades. Are we happier when we earn and spend more? What do you think? I think we can let researchers continue to run their surveys and experiments. In the meantime, we can use a spreadsheet full of emoticons to decide for ourselves. Tracking our […]
Addition By Subtraction: Gaining More With Less
Most of us are searching for more in this life. We strive for more money, more accolades and more possessions. We are conditioned to believe that more is better, but is that always the case? What if we flipped this idea on its head? What if we cut items out of our lives rather than […]
Be Content With What You Have: Redefine Enough
What is your definition of enough? Do you have a roof over your head and food in your pantry? Is that enough? If not, how much more would you need to be content? Have you ever thought about it? Most of us don’t. Isn’t it strange that we spend our whole lives searching for more, yet we […]
Press the Pause Button and Stop Living Life on Autopilot
A month or so ago our lives were coasting on autopilot. Many of us were caught in an endless loop of never-ending activities: wake, shower, eat, drive, work, drive, eat, sleep and repeat. We moved through the days like sleepwalkers, unable to alter the monotony of our routines and patterns. Every morning we pulled back […]