Most change efforts fail at this exact point. You gain awareness, feel motivated for 2-3 weeks, try to “do better,” hit resistance, revert to old patterns, blame yourself for lack of discipline, and conclude that real change must not be possible for you.
Research shows that 40% of your daily actions aren’t conscious decisions—they’re habits. You don’t decide your morning routine. You don’t decide how you respond to stress. You don’t decide your evening wind-down pattern.
Why Motivation Hacks Fail (And What Actually Works) Stop trying to hack your way to success. If you’re relying on motivation to drive lasting change, you’re building your dreams on quicksand. Here’s why: Motivation is an emotion. Identity is a system. Systems win every time. The Motivation Trap Emotions are temporary, fluctuating, and unreliable. You […]
How To Be Self Aware How to become self aware. To be self aware is to fully comprehend our thoughts, feelings and actions. And, perhaps more importantly, how our thoughts, feelings and actions affect self and others. It is the ability to look at our life as others see us. Self awareness becomes the ability […]
How To Develop Self Awareness How do we discover our true self? We start with self awareness. This begins by knowing who we are, what we want, understanding our worldview and living consistently with reality. It is easy to get sidetracked with the belief that we should become someone based on an observation of another. […]
What Is The Purpose Of Life? Your Life? Yes, I think purpose is the right question. Past the need for food and shelter, the two most important needs for all of us is the desire for community and the pursuit of meaning. W. Edwards Deming helped me realize that all of humanity has a need […]
What Is Life About? Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Clarity of action begins when a person knows who they really are, and comprehends what they really want. Conscious awareness, choice and trust in oneself is what separates the successful from the average. We aren’t fully alive until we begin to make choices that […]
How Much Does A life Coach Cost? To answer this question I’d like for you to read this post through the lens of the following two idioms: 1. A thing is worth what someone will pay for it 2. You get what you pay for I worked for Papa John’s International as a Vice President late in […]
Making a careful review of one’s past is the first step in the development of a Life Plan. The next step is to assess your current reality. The final step is to create a vision and strategy to achieve your dreams, which will be published in the next few weeks. Part Two: Assess Your Reality […]