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How Do You Know?
"How do you know?" This is a question I hear a lot. It's a good question, a valid question, and a reasonable question. It is also a limiting question. It …
The Courage to Start
Momentum is a powerful force. Once the ball is rolling, it's easier to keep it rolling. The challenge is the starting. Once the ball is rolling, it's easier …
Featured on PositivelyPositive.com
In Our Response Lies Our Growth and Our Freedom I knew he was coming. He had called me earlier in the week and asked me if I could host him and his wife for …
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Entrepreneurs: Fixing This One Thing Can Change Everything When starting a business knowing your worth and having the right mindset is crucial to …
Don’t Become a Success!
The reason why we want to be a success is for other people to respect us. Does it really make a difference whether we are a "success?" What matters is that we …
Don’t Miss Your Life By Living Anothers
Living your life requires accepting who you are as well as accepting who you're not. When we're too scared to define ourselves, the life we are meant to live …
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Be Impressive, Don’t Impress
I love this quote: Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive. Ryan Holiday I would add that the more we are focused on impressing …
You Can’t Buy Love
So often, we do so much to gain the love or admiration of another. We hope our dress, use of language, humor or another facade will buy us their affection. We …
Article Featured on The Good Men Project
Change How You React and It Will Change Your Life If you’re like most people, when you get accused of something you immediately become defensive. Our …
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Article Featured on Psychcentral.com
The Happiness You Want for Your Child May Not Be Real Happiness At the slightest hint of unhappiness from a child, parents move to fix it — it’s a mental act, …
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5 Principles of Success Anyone Can Apply to Their Lives There is no trick to success—no catchphrase, no perfect job to apply for, and not even a blog post …
My Interview On The Gratitude Podcast
http://www.georgianbenta.com/2017/05/15/038-rabbis-perspective-humility-makes-us-powerful-grateful-aryeh-weinstein/ …
Drama Free Relationships
"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Viktor …
Why People Thrive On Drama and How You Can Avoid Its Pitfalls
“Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.” Stephen Moyer Here's a recent blog I wrote which was posted …
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One Moment We Mustn’t Lose
Tick tock says the clock. Moment by moment does time go by. We wish we could stop the clock, hold up time and lengthen each moment. We can't. There is …
Sing Your Song
I was raised in a home with a culture of music. We always had music playing. We would sing together at our Shabbat table. To sing wasn't uncomfortable, it was …
Stuck in Your Own Delusions
Here's a profound idea written by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman in his book, Be Within, Stay Above. It's the last sentence that speaks volumes to me. No one can predict …
Make It Relevant
It's easy to say they don't get it, they're disengaged or they don't appreciate. It's more responsible to ask, "What can I do to help them get it, to …
Free To Be Me
Your financial state can surely limit your options. Your environment can surely limit your opportunities. Your environment can surely limit your …
Seeing Past the Drama
Most of us bring unnecessary drama into our lives. Drama helps us feel alive, responsible and reactive. What the drama truly serves as is a …
When Your World Goes Upside Down!
When people say their world is upside down it's usually not a good sign. Typically, some uninvited force effected their life and they feel that things aren't …
Worry Less, Do More
Worry is one way to deal with reality. It's also the more unhealthy way. Doing something about it is far more productive. We can train ourselves to ask, "What …
When You Trust Me…
When you trust me, you see who I can be. When you trust me, you show me who I can be. When you trust me, you know I can. When you trust me, I know I …
Sensitivity
Sensitivity is our ability to sense things. Sensitivity makes us vulnerable. The more we are aware of what's going on around us and within us, the more …
Your Money or Your Quality of Life?
Your life is now, not later. Money is meant to serve your life. Your life isn't meant to serve your money. When you're driven by a deeper purpose, your …
There’s Plenty For You Too! (A Story)
A follower of the great mystic, Rabbi Meir of Premishlan, once complained to him about a man who moved into town and started a business that competed with his. …
Do You Stand For or Against?
It's always easier to be against. It's always harder to be for. To stand against something means you have no position, you're simply against theirs. To …
Your Future Is Now
The only moment you can conquer is the moment that exists now. This minute. This second. We cannot do yesterday today. We cannot do tomorrow …
Diversity or Discrimination?
Diversity has a nice ring to it. It's popular. I"ll join a group that stands for it. Discrimination has a negative connotation. It's not popular. I'm scared …