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Have you ever kept around a behavior that you knew was no longer serving you for WAY too long? Have you ever acted unkindly or inconsiderately toward someone else and later regretted not being in control of your emotions? Why do we so often act in ways that conflict with what we really...

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Why do we so often tell ourselves that we want something in our lives but then act in ways that take us further away from that desired outcome? Why do habits persist long after we know that they are not serving us?

If we want to reach a state of full alignment in our lives where...

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What are you spending your time on? What fills your calendar? Where is your focus going?

Do you feel like you are in a constant state of reaction where your agenda is set more by what appears to be the most pressing than on what is actually most important to you?

This is a condition that...

Imagine trying to win a game when you don't even know what the goal is. That's unfortunately how most people live their lives and how many organizations do business.

If you haven't gotten clear on what your personal mission is in life, then you will never get the satisfying feeling that you are...

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We all walk around with beliefs that don't serve us. In moment of weakness or pain we create mental associations that truly have no grounding in reality but appear as real as anything we could experience.

When you get in a fight with a loved one, your mind will form a model of meaning...

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Think of the county in which you live. Think of all the streets, the landmarks, as many details as you can. Now imagine a map of that county. Imagine how it looks, every detail you can.

Do they match? Well, yes and no.

The map is an imperfect representation of the territory. Some things...

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Ever played a game and you felt annoyed and limited by the rules? Now imagine trying to win a game when you don't even know what the rules are!

This is how most people live their lives. They play the game of life according to broken, arbitrary, and nonsensical rules that they've...

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Humans like to think of themselves as essentially rational beings – absorbing all of the relevant information and arriving at the assuredly best conclusion based on the evidence.

If only it were that simple.

Decades of research in psychology shows us that the truth is a bit more...

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Fear is the most debilitating emotion that humans can experience. Unfortunately, it is also the emotion that our mind is most likely to cling to.

We climbed to the top of the evolutionary ladder because of the brain's immense ability to channel fear into fleeing from potential danger.

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Most people give far more weight to their current conditions of life than they do the power behind their decisions in life.

If you always define your life experience through a sense of responsibility, then you will always have the capacity to act, and that is all you...

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How often do you put off the things that you care about? What have you been putting off that you need to do right now? Why do we have such difficulty making progress in our lives?

You remember that age-old law of the universe: "an object in motion tends to stay in motion. An object...