Year: 2010

  • Do Happy: Get Luckier

    “Care and diligence bring luck.” ~Proverb When things aren’t going well for you it’s easy to blame it on bad luck.  To assume other people who are doing better had more help and advantages. Nothing could be less empowering.  This line of thinking just confirms that the world is unfair and you have limited control. […]

  • Do Happy: Compare Yourself to Other People Well

    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” ~Lao Tzu Conventional wisdom suggests if you want to be happy you shouldn’t compare yourself to other people. Conventional wisdom isn’t always realistic.  Try as you may to completely stop making comparisons, you’ll likely come back to the […]

  • Take Responsibility…Let Go

    I recently saw a post on a forum that I am a member of from a mother of a child in their late twenties who had addictions, many of them and who only came back to the mother when they wanted financial help to support them and used the emotional blackmail of the fact that […]

  • Will It Work….What’s Your Why?

    Are you one of those people who think of something and see all the possibilities that can be created from it? Do you follow up on it and start a project, or just wonder about it for a while, do nothing and then leave it aside for future thinking and gradually forget all about it? […]

  • How Our Language Can Make A Huge Difference…

    I remember recently reading a blog post by someone who is also an NLP practitioner. He had gone into a shop where there was a sign saying “DON’T FORGET TO BUY YOUR…….” above the product the shop owner wanted his customers to buy. The practitioner asked how the sales were going and wasn’t surprised to […]