5 STEPS TO SELF-ACTUALIZATION

 
“Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.”
– Dalai Lama
Monitoring what motivates me has helped me see how I am growing. I do things for different reasons now than I did 10 years ago. As we pay ongoing attention to our motives, we can see how both our conscious [...]

LOOKING FOR SAFETY?

 
“Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.”
– Germaine Greer
Our personality likes to be in control. It likes to know how things are and what’s going to happen. Underlying this desire for stability and predictability is a deep fear that the world is a dangerous [...]

CHOOSE DIFFERENTLY TODAY

“It is always your next move.”
– Napoleon Hill
The great benefit of heightened awareness is that we have more choice in how we live our lives. At any moment, we can purposefully choose a new experience for ourselves. We can choose to pay attention, breathe more deeply, laugh, rest, play, appreciate, do something different – the [...]

HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS?

“He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Too often, people focus only on results. But getting results without learning something or without having fun are incomplete. So is having fun without getting the results, or having fun without learning something new to help and empower you [...]

TAKE TIME TO BE STILL

“Work is not always required … there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”
– George MacDonald
When was the last time you did absolutely nothing?
Our world is so addicted to productivity that we feel guilty if we’re not doing something. But taking time daily to [...]

Tune into the inner critic

“A critic is a legless man who teaches running.”
– Channing Pollock
Are you aware of your inner critic? We all have this voice that tells us we are bad, stupid, clumsy, cowardly…. Although its intent is to help us succeed, the harsh self talk of our critic just serves to drain our energy and lower our [...]

YOU ARE WORTHY!

   
  
  ”A person’s worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having.”
– Alice Mary Hilton
As a human being, as spirit manifested in form, you are innately worthy. Your [...]