Financial Stress Wrecking Your Mental Health? – 3 Keys for Coping

Do you often find yourself faced with financial stress? I mean the kind of stress that affects your mental health and disrupts your life. You may experience frequent upset stomachs, sleepless nights, and a barrage of self-depraving thoughts. If you’re nodding along, then rest assured you’re not alone. Many people, just like you, are plagued…

Anxiety and the Digital Era: Can Technology Actually Reduce Stress?

We hear a lot about how technology causes anxiety in these digital days. But there’s evidence that technology can also help reduce stress. One in five Americans is troubled with anxiety, and the problem is worse for women. Almost twice as many women as men suffer from anxiety. The causes and characteristics of anxiety are…

Overcome Anxiety: Stop Looking at Life Through Anxiety’s Glasses & See Clearly Again

We all know the idiom “looking through rose-colored glasses.” It means you’re looking at someone or something in an idealistic – or unduly favorable – way. It means you’ve lost your objectivity. Your vision has become distorted. Visual distortion can also happen when you look at your life through anxiety’s glasses. Instead of rose-colored, these…

What’s the Difference Between Doing What You Like & Liking What You Do?

It’s not unusual for people in large cities to juggle multiple jobs. They brave the demands; the pressure; the hectic, mind-numbing drudgery; the abuse and disrespect; and the excruciatingly long work days… for what? In pursuit of their holy grail – their dream career. Their true calling. Their passion. When you’re doing what you like,…

Why Stepping Past That Uncomfortable Feeling is the Key to a Better Life

Discomfort. It’s that feeling we get when we step outside of our comfort zone. When we move beyond the constraint of activities and opportunities that we feel comfortable with. The thing is, most of us don’t like that uncomfortable feeling. In fact, avoiding it is part of human nature – a weakness that urges us…

Excessive Worrying is Worthless – Take These Steps to Control It

You’ve got things to do. This moment, right now, needs you to get up and get in it. Get with it. Go for it. But you aren’t. Why? Perhaps it’s because you can’t seem to move forward without questioning the moment, mercilessly rehashing the past, or second-guessing whether you’re ready for what lies ahead. You’re worried….

Pessimists: The Key to Optimism and a Better Life is Your Self-Talk. Why?

Optimism. An effervescent cheerful spirit. Always looking for the good in everything. Seeing the glass half full, instead of half empty. Sounds really good – on the surface. Right? Opponents of positive thinking have argued that it’s simply another way of hiding from reality. They contend that it’s just a soft and fluffy concept that…

Dramatic People: Are Their Lives Really a Never-ending List of Crises?

So there’s this test you can take. About your need for drama. It’s all very scientific and published. Totally evidence-based and meant to assess that thing dramatic people have inside them. You know, that inner tendency to make chaos a routine occurrence in their daily lives. Psychologist Scott Frankowski really wanted to know what that…

Too Much or Too Little? How Parents Contribute to Narcissism in Their Children

You’re trying your best to raise your child to become a balanced adult, right? But how do you go about doing this the right way? It frightens you to see all too many self-important, conceited, and arrogant people in this world. How can you avoid raising children that become so self-centered? The opinions that you…

Predicting Happiness: It’s Not as Easy as You’d Think

You probably think you know what’s good for you. You probably think that predicting happiness means you actually know what will make you happy. So, what comes to mind? Cash-stacking lottery daydreams? True love fantasies? World travelling escape from the 9-to-5 grind? Yes, yes that all sounds good…great in fact. But will those things really…