“To make profound changes in your life you need either inspiration or desperation” Tony Robbins As humans, we often need a major event to shapes our lives for the better. It takes a heart-attack to start exercising or bypass-surgery to start eating healthier. But the good news is we don’t need to get to that …
“I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline” Duke Ellington One reason your goals may not get completed is because they don’t have a set time to be accomplished. You could spend months, even years, taking small steps towards your goals and never see them accomplished. It’s what I call the fear of …
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned” Richard Feynman My 6-year-old daughter is going through the “How?” phase in life. She is constantly asking how everything works. A recent question she asked is how do airplanes fly? With the aid of technology, I was able to show …
“Quitters never win and winners never quit” Vince Lombardi This type of mentality acts as a double-edged sword; sometimes it works but other times pursuing something for the sake of persistence is just a waste of time, your most valuable resource. If something gets too hard, should you move on to the next thing? After …
“Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice” Epictetus Psychologists define stress as a form of psychological (mental) and/or physiological (physical) arousal that drives behavior. There are two different reactions to stressors: Eustress. The stress we experience when we are challenged. It is motivation to accomplish something …
“it takes a village…” Proverb As a child, you probably remember your parents telling you not to talk to strangers. This is an excellent rule to follow as a child but as an adult, you must constantly interact with people you don’t know in order to function. If you have been applying the information from …
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” Benjamin Franklin We have talked about the need for adults to make learning intentional since it is no longer expected or required of us as it is for children. As adults, we continue to learn in order to better ourselves and to grow personally, professionally, and in …
“The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite” George Leonard The last post discusses two different types of learning; one to stay afloat with changes (Maintenance Learning) and the other one to excel (Growth Learning). Once you understand the importance of continuous learning, it is vital to know …
“Learning never exhausts the mind” Leonardo da Vinci Though the first couple of years learning become a normal part of our life as we wake up and go to school, at a certain point it becomes optional. You graduate and don’t have to go to class anymore. This doesn’t mean you should stop learning, it …
“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently” – Tony Robbins In Psychology there is a term called Dual-Process. It’s the idea that our behavior and actions are …