Stress and the pressures of life have a way of quickly taking a mental, physical, and spiritual toll. Whether you’re stressed about money, kids, work, or anything in between, the effects of stress have a tendency to spill into all aspects of your life. Depending on how well you handle your stress, it can negatively affect your personal relationships and professional life. [click to continue…]

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Positive PsychologyWe all want to find meaning and purpose in our lives. For many people, this means searching for spirituality. However, a daunting amount of spiritual teachings can leave you confused and overwhelmed if you are seeking spirituality in your life. [click to continue…]

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How to Tell if Your Therapist is Right for You

July 6, 2011

If you are seeing a therapist, you know that he or she is an important part of helping you through whatever issues or illness you may be experiencing. For this reason, it is crucial you have a therapist who is right for you.

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Pursuing Happiness or Chasing Your Tail?

June 22, 2011

Have you ever seen a dog chase its tail? He will spend hours running in circles yet never catch it. Often, we are the same way in our lives. Most people want to find happiness in their lives and pursue it in a variety of forms. However, at times it may feel like you’re just [...]

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Practicing Forgiveness Can Save Your Life

June 8, 2011

If you’re like most people, you’ve probably been hurt or felt wronged by someone and have had to make the choice to forgive them and move on. While this is not always easy, people who forgive are happier and healthier overall.

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The Process of Creativity – Creative Blocks, Part 2

May 17, 2011

It all sounds so simple, the idea of creativity, doesn’t it?  But actually, creativity and creative thinking can have considerable conceptual blocks.  There are things in the world that just want to stop us from being creative.  They come from outside and from within. The Cultural or Environmental Blocks Institutional Press: Where you work or [...]

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The Process of Creativity – 5 Theories, Part 1

May 10, 2011

There are five well-founded theories of the process of creativity and they go something like this. Before we get into the theories, we should start by recognizing that creativity is more than just imagination.  It’s more than fanciful ideas.  Creativity is a combination of both novelty and feasibility and originality and usefulness.  If you don’t [...]

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The Five Values of Entrepreneurial Existence

May 3, 2011

There are five well-founded theories of the process of creativity and they go something like this. Before we get into the theories, we should start by recognizing that creativity is more than just imagination.  It’s more than fanciful ideas.  Creativity is a combination of both novelty and feasibility and originality and usefulness.  If you don’t [...]

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How does the evolution of an entrepreneurial existence evolve?

April 26, 2011

From my experience, the way I see it, there are actually five different areas to focus on as an entrepreneur evolves. First, it’s the dare to dream. Then, it’s creating the crucible. Next, is realizing and materializing the dream. Then, it’s the stages and levels of that entrepreneurial existence. And then eventually, it’s the changing [...]

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How SDI Can Help You Understand

April 5, 2011

One of the ways the philosophy or study of Spiral Dynamics helps people from different levels of existence or zones of being, is that it helps you to see that people use different languages to express different selves. Someone who’s fairly traditionalist may use a language that is based in rules and absolute authority; this [...]

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