When others give us feedback, and we’re not all right with ourselves, we won’t be able to hear criticism without rationalizing,...

We think ourselves into feeling good or bad. And we can retrain ourselves to think differently about any situation. Many of us believe...

Feelings of disappointment are real. When we dislike someone’s behavior, we believe he or she should act differently. We look for...

Taming our game means admitting that we’ve chosen to do whatever we’re doing, because we wanted the effect it’s producing. It means...

We’re always moving toward a future that we’re causing. Our meaning and direction develop out of our why. When we’re clear about that,...

Many of us have been taught that adults are supposed to be responsible, mature and serious, which basically means to be worried most of...

For most of us, there’s a self-talk debate going on inside our heads between the part of us that thinks, “I can save the world!” and the...

Life will be as wonderful or as terrible as we believe it is and our daily lives are the result of what we tell ourselves about our...

Admitting that we’ve chosen to do whatever we’re doing, because we wanted the effect it’s producing, means giving up any pretense that...

Our emotions are goal-oriented activities that we do on purpose to achieve something we want. And feeling sad or happy is not the result...

When we think thoughts that cause us to feel afraid and distressed, we’re planning our future. And when we think thoughts that cause us...

The popularized concept of karma is that it’s cosmic payback for doing something wrong. But really, it’s only setting causes in motion...

We can’t stop doing what we don’t know we’re doing and we can’t find release from what we’re not willing to admit, but we can change...

We're training people all the time. The people who treat us well, as well as the ones who treat us badly, are doing it because we've...