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Making difficult and sometimes painful decisions that almost always improve your life

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Making difficult and sometimes painful decisions that almost always improve your life
Making difficult and sometimes painful decisions that almost always improve your life
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Making difficult and sometimes painful decisions that almost always improve your life
September 1, 2019

The key to long-lasting happiness and fulfillment is about ten percent luck and ninety percent of what I talk about in today’s episode.

If you struggle in your relationships, your job, or life in general, you may be sabotaging your own path to success. Start making decisions based on what’s most important to you instead of from a fear of the consequences and you’ll end up with a vastly different reality.

Filed Under: Decisions, Desires, Healthy Thinking, Values Tagged With: How do I make better decisions?, I sabotage my own happiness, Why doesn't anything work out for me?

The big, scary steps that lead to positive change

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The big, scary steps that lead to positive change
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The big, scary steps that lead to positive change
August 11, 2019

How big a leap do you have to take to create real change in your life? Is every step a leap of faith that causes you to carry around fear and stress all the time?

Can you take baby steps to heal and grow into the person you want to be, creating the life you want?

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Filed Under: Decisions, Fears, Healing, Healthy Thinking

Stop believing what hurtful people say to you: Transforming negative self-talk to empowerment

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Stop believing what hurtful people say to you: Transforming negative self-talk to empowerment
Stop believing what hurtful people say to you: Transforming negative self-talk to empowerment
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Stop believing what hurtful people say to you: Transforming negative self-talk to empowerment
September 30, 2018

Hurtful people do a really good job of causing us to feel bad about ourselves.

Not only that, we end up repeating what they said or did to us in our mind over and over again. The emotional trauma can last for months or years.

In this episode I help transform the hurtful messages from others into empowering declarations that help us move on see them for who they really are.

Filed Under: Healthy Thinking, Identity, Insecurity, Judgment, Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, Toxic People, Toxic Thinking Tagged With: stop believing hurtful people, transforming negative self-talk into empowerment

Can You Make Peace with Your Cravings?

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I was chatting with a client recently and told her that over the weekend, I drank a soda. This may not be a shock to you, but it was for me because I haven’t had a soda in about twenty years.

I was at a horse farm with my girlfriend enjoying some time away from home, and this craving came over me. I really, really wanted a soda.

Every time I’ve tried to drink soda in the past (after I quit soft drinks), I got an instant headache. This was a blessing when I was getting off my soft drink addiction because it made the cravings a lot easier to reject.

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Filed Under: Addiction, anxiety, Behavior, Codependency, Control, Decisions, Desires, Emotional Eating, Healthy Thinking, Obsession, Regret, Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, Toxic Thinking Tagged With: beating myself up for giving in, I am addicted to sugar, Making peace with your cravings, what's missing in my life?

The phobia of commitments and making decisions

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The phobia of commitments and making decisions
The phobia of commitments and making decisions
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The phobia of commitments and making decisions
September 16, 2018

If you’re commitment-phobic or someone who has trouble making and committing to decisions, you’ve probably noticed your life coming to a standstill more often than you want.

The solution may be a simple change that’s a challenge to implement but could transform your life.

Listen to this episode to help you make decisions faster and easier.

Filed Under: Decisions, Fears, Healthy Thinking, Relationships, Worry Tagged With: commitment phobia, I have a fear of commitment, make decisions faster and easier

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