Sometimes we have these big goals, and we work really, really hard towards reaching them. And after finally reaching that goal, we first feel very excited. 
Unfortunately, oftentimes that feeling is fleeting and that excitement goes away very quickly. Have you had this experience before? One of my friends was working really hard towards a […]
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So most of us in the Bay Area are now sheltered in place. And while many of us are luckily ok, our daily routine has most likely changed, taking us out of our comfort zone. We may be working from home, homeschooling kids, standing in longer lines at the supermarket or listening to frequent news
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The Key to Feeling Worthy Have you ever struggled with feeling worthy? In “Daring Greatly”, Brené Brown explores what people who believe they are worthy – she calls them the Wholehearted – have in common. She found that it’s not that their lives are easier or that they have survived fewer traumas and had fewer
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We all experience some physical and mental discomfort in our lifetime – it’s simply part of life. In the book “Buddha’s Brain”, meditation teacher Rick Hanson explains that in Buddha’s teachings this unavoidable discomfort is called the “first dart.” Of course first darts are unpleasant, but then we add our reactions to them. These are
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We all have days when it is harder to feel positive. We get held up by traffic, a project we are working on runs into obstacles, someone in our family gets sick – in other words, life happens. What if there was a proven way you could feel fewer negative emotions and more positive emotions?
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Dalai Lama: “What is the purpose of life? After much consideration, I believe that the purpose of life is to find happiness… The ultimate source of happiness is within us. Not money, not power, not status… Sadly, many of the things that undermine our joy and happiness we create ourselves. Often it comes from the
It’s a new year again, a time when many of us choose to reflect on last year and plan ahead for the coming year. How do you choose your resolutions for the year? I usually spend quite some time on this for myself as well as with my clients. But here is an abbreviated 10
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Happy New Year! How have the first few days of the year been for you so far? Many of us use this time to make New Year’s resolutions with losing weight, self improvement and better money management topping the list. As I have been reflecting on the past few years, I tried to identify what
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Do you feel like your expectations are regularly met at work and in your personal life? Or do you feel like people often seem to fall short, and things don’t turn out the way you would like? A number of years back, one of my co-workers excitedly came up to me while I was getting
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I’ve written about happiness in many of my previous posts: From cultivating positive thoughts to choosing activities that make you feel like you are in “the flow”, from how to set goals that make you happy to finding careers that are fulfilling. However, none of these strategies will work unless you allow yourself to be happy.
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