The Truth About Your Physical Environment

How conscious are you of the connection between your state of mind and your physical environment? Most of your friends may consider a clean and quite environment simply as a nice and wonderful thing to have. A few would consider it essential. Here's why...

Is this car the standard in your mind of what your car should look like? Or does having one would simply be nice?
LP640 Roadster Photo Shoot by Jason Thorgalsen

In between your mind and your physical environment is your sensory system that collects stimuli through your five senses - sight, touch, smell, sound and taste. When something is out of line in your physical environment, that piece of information reaches your mind as fast as a blink and compare it with your standard.

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The Real Truth About Your Family

Whether your family is your source of inspiration or not, the role they play in your success and happiness is bigger than you think.

Free Daddy and His Little Shadow Girls at The Skate Park
by D. Sharon Pruitt

Tell me . . . are family and success mutually exclusive? Can you possibly misplace your family in your hierarchy of priorities?

Answers vary, of course. What is true in your case?

The Secret to a Great Career

If you're happy doing something without pay, simply because you like doing it, how much happier would you get if you're getting paid to do what you want?

You think salary makes you happy? Click on the image above and think again.
Photo Credit: 'Juhan's 2008 Career Graph' by Juhan Sunin

Does what you spend most of your waking hours on complement with what you dream about most of your non-sleeping hours? Misalignment in your career or business is like a volcano waiting to erupt. It's just a matter of time.

Here Are Two Quick Ways to Move Forward

Stuck? Can't move forward? There's a kingpin in your life right now that you need to move and the rest follow.

Tell yourself, "What have I been thinking? This clown can't hurt me! I'm calling this person now."
Photo Credit: 'The Cook and the Clown' by Yersinia

Among the many options available, there's one that unclogs everything, if not at least a few major things and gets you moving once again. It's called the kingpin. Be a master in finding the kingpin and you master the art of keeping things in motion.

There are two good areas to start looking: your fears and your tolerations.

Emotional Vampires are Real Vampires, Beware!

Vampires, as we know, them may by mythical, but BEWARE . . . emotional vampires are real! They are as vicious and as deadly as the "manananggals" of the Philippines or the vampires of the West.

Manananggal in Philippine Folklore, the closest there is to Vampires in the West. Mananggals suck blood of babies in mothers' wombs.
Photo Credit: Wikipedia

What's the first picture that appears in your mind with the word "vampire"? Most likely you're seeing fangs, pale faced humans with blood dripping from their mouths. Yes, western vampires are indeed blood suckers.