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Changing your exercise and nutrition habits require you to overhaul your mindset.  It is our brain, behavior, mood, emotions, beliefs, and values that drive our behavior.  If you do not address your thoughts, feelings, and lack of motivation, you will continue to...

Social distancing, isolation, smaller celebrations, restricted travel, vaccines, crazy election drama:  there are so many things happening right now that this is way far beyond any sort of normal holiday season.  You might be by yourself this holiday, maybe you will...

What does it really take to succeed?  What is necessary to achieve your hearts desire?  Have you ever heard that you need to suffer to make things happen.  Well, people like David Goggins certainly think so.  Personally, I have been super inspired by watching his...

This is a very dense subject.  Cultivating emotional intelligence takes consistent work, just like everything!  I wish I had worked on my emotional intelligence earlier in my life.  I can not turn back the clock, but I can keep this in mind now.  This book, Emotional...

Do you feel anxious, depressed, high strung?  Are you tense and angry a lot?  Does your mind race with many ideas and thoughts that you feel like you cannot control?  Perhaps you are highly critical of yourself and others, highly analytical, and think a lot about...

Seven Habits of Highly Successful people by Steven Covey has been one of my favorite books in the personal development genre.  From learning to be organized, to prioritizing your time, listening to others, and really listening to your partner, this was an all...