Archive for the 'Core Beliefs' Category

What Should I Do

What should I do?
When you ask this question to someone else,,, you are opening the door to giving away your personal power and creating a victim mindset.   This is a dangerous question to ask.  At the same time guidance can be helpful.
In the early stages of our personal development we ask many questions.  In the [...]

Faith and the Power to Change Your Life

Faith
Some people define faith as a belief in something for which they have no evidence for.  Others think of faith as a set of religious beliefs.  These are limited uses and understanding of faith.  Faith is a force.  Think of it as a life force energy that you direct, consciously or unconsciously.  It is a [...]

Understanding Success with Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t take the commonly accepted beliefs others have.  He looks deeper into understanding the Why’s and How’s of things at a deeper level.  Success isn’t just a matter of hard work, or talent, or both.   There are a lot of assumptions about success, and in his book Outliers, Gladwell works to dispel many [...]

Beliefs and Motivation

Should you take the band aid off slow or fast?
Dan Ariely shares an interesting story of whether you should take the band aid off slow, or fast.   If you do it slow, the pain is less intense, but over a longer period of time.  If you take the band aid off fast it is [...]

Happiness and the Myth of Success

We are inundated since childhood with the philosophy to create happiness through successful achievement of our goals.  Often this approach continues into adulthood.   If we are offered another strategy for happiness later it isn’t nurtured or supported by the world around us.  We have our model, and so our current paradigm discounts others.  That is [...]