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6 Tips to Being Happy In The Present Moment

We all want to be happy.  But we have preconceived notions or beliefs about what needs to happen in our lives before we can be happy.  Maybe we need to get that dream job.  Or we need to have a...

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5 Easy Ways to Be Nicer to Yourself

It was every parent’s nightmare. Kristin Neff was on an airplane with her husband and her young son, Rowan, and all was well. Until Rowan suddenly threw a tantrum. And not just any tantrum. This was a...

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5 Super Simple Ways to Build Momentum

What is momentum? I’m going to use the same example that Darren Hardy illustrates in his book The Compound Effect (which you can read my review of here). Darren writes about a spinning platter. The...

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3 Tips to Making Efficient Use of Your Time

“I don’t have enough time.”  “I’m too busy.”  “There aren’t enough hours in the day.” On average, I hear at least one of these expressions twice a day.  And quite frankly, I’m a bit tired of it.  So I...

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How To Conquer Fluctuating Ambition in 5 Steps

Picture this. It's 10 PM and I'm excited about life. I decide to go to the gym tomorrow at 8 AM. The morning arrives, and I peel my body out of bed, and I don't go to the gym. What happened? It's...

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10 Ways to Start Living a Meaningful Life Right Now

Does Your Life Even Matter? Go to work. Come home. Eat Dinner. Go to sleep. Wake up. Rinse, recycle, repeat. Do you ever wonder... Does my life even matter?  There is magic and fear behind this...

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8 Steps to Breaking Your Procrastination Habit

We all procrastinate. For some of us, waiting until just before a deadline can be just the motivation we need to jolt us out of inaction. Others among us procrastinate as a way to put off a task we...

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Welcome The Community Blog! A Brand New Feature on PTB

I am so happy to introduce our newest feature - The PTB Community Blog to all of you! What is our Community Blog? Over the past 5 years we’ve been fortunate enough to have hundreds, literally, hundreds...

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How To Stay Optimistic During a Downward Spiral

“Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain” – Robert Gary Lee It happened suddenly. I remembered feeling hopeless, having walked 23 miles from my office to my home in the bitter London weather. I...

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3 Communication Tips for Improving Any Relationship

Good communication is imperative for the long-term success of any relationship. But what makes for effective communication? Consciousness is required for effective communication. The goal is being...

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3 Traps of Personal Development and How to Get Out of Them

Personal development has been the rage lately. It's so easy to grow as a person and find solutions to your problems. Not only that, dig deeper and go into the whole area of "Lifestyle design" and you...

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What Motivates You To Succeed? 2 Significant Factors For Success

I’m in a crossfit gym, absolutely drenched in sweat and gasping for air, with a trainer breathing down my neck yelling at me to push harder.  Others around me have already given up, with just a few...

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7 Ways Mindfulness Can Help You Lose Weight, Stress Less And Discover Your Joy

"Get out of your head and into your heart.  Think less, feel more."  Osho I used to joke that I didn’t even have time to notice the roses, let alone smell them!  I wasn’t alone.  We rush from activity...

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How To Cultivate The Habit of Fear

Fear is at the root of every personal development and peak performance methodology. It is the most primal of emotions and the wall that stands in the way of taking action. So why would anyone want to...

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Who Else Wants an Awesome Morning?

Having an awesome morning is though, I know. Suddenly we have to get all our systems ready for another high-energy day. Personally, I wasn't doing too well on this front until I made some real...

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Simple Practical Things You Can Do To Take Control Of Your Thoughts

How many of us actually really ‘get’ that our thoughts control our every action? We hear people say it all the time, we read quotes about it, we listen to the ‘experts’ preach about it but do we...

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How to Turn Worry into an Ally

Imagine what it must have been like when humans discovered that we could avert disaster by predicting possible future events… For example, being able to predict that we need food during winter lead to...

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7 Ways To Be More Optimistic

Want to Be More Optimistic? Here are Seven Ways to Do It Optimism is absolutely essential for winning, meeting and exceeding goals, and feeling accomplished and fulfilled. It helps us deal with...

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Spring Cleaning-The New Resolution

Being a human is quite peculiar almost solely due to the fact that we have our own brain waves, judgments, and perceptions. But sometimes I consider how strange it must be to exist as a mindless...

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4 Ways To Find People You Match Well With

When it comes to relationships, whether it's romantic relationships or friendships, good matches are very important. The better you match with a person in terms of values, goals, beliefs and...

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