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What do you do when you know you're off-track and you want to make a switch?  A listener asks, "How can I have confidence that I won't fail when I make a change I know needs to be made?

This listener is feeling unmotivated and says, "It's not the work. It's me. I feel like an artist who wants to do great work but has completely lost the drive.  How can I get it back?" When you lose your passion and motivation, here is the way you can regain your drive.   

A listener asks "How can I feel good in this physical form when life seems like such a hassle and I know that part of me is beyond all this?" 

There is a space between stimulus and response.  This space is the place of our freedom.  This episode explores the ideas of personal freedom, choice and the power we each have to choose our response to the circumstances of our lives.

In this interview with young adult fiction novelist, Stacy Claflin, we discuss her inspiration, process and upcoming projects.

In this episode of the show, author Denise Barreto and I discuss the 5 steps to doing your life's work, outlined in her book, From Here to There: 5 Steps to Doing Your Life's Work Every Day. Denise provides powerful personal anecdotes and wonderful insights to help you do your life's work wherever you are in your career and life!

This is Part One of an interview with Denise Barreto, author of From Here to There: 5 Steps to Doing Your Life's Work Every Day. In this episode, I ask Denise about how she defines one's "life's work," what that means to her personally, and how she started doing her life's work--and helping others to do the same. (Part Two features a step-by-step discussion on each phase of the process for doing your life's work, outlined in the book)

In this episode, I continue the previous discussion on affirmation and discuss keys of manifestation and attraction--including affirmations, emotional alignment and action. I give personal examples to help these philosophical ideas make practical sense.

In this episode, I use 'affirmation' and 'mantra' as an analogy for how we think and feel about ourselves and our world.  I define each term and challenge you to uncover the affirmations and mantras that shape your life and your destiny.

This episode I share the single most detrimental affirmation that has ever shaped my life.  I was not even aware that I held this belief at the time.   I follow it up with the single most powerful affirmation that changed my life.  At the end, I share a couple of powerful affirmations you can adopt in your own life.

In this week's episode, I share 3 steps that have helped me in my search for purpose and meaning.  I also tell what I learned about resistance on a sightseeing cruise on Lake Superior.

Setting boundaries is one of the most challenging obstacles many of us face. Whether it is setting boundaries with friend or family members--or even strangers--we often struggle with setting (and holding) firm boundaries. Setting boundaries is vital to nurturing and cultivating your dream. There are dream snatchers out there who will steal the vitality of your dream before it has an opportunity to take root.  This may not be intentional, but it can happen all too easily.  It is essential that you protect your dreams with boundaries until they are strong enough that no one can shake them.

The only way to produce confidence is to be courageous enough to face your fears and step into them.  Taking action, produces results and creates momentum.  Results + Momentum = Confidence.   Often we get sidetracked evaluating our options.  Make a decision, take action, then evaluate.  The time to evaluate is after you've begun to produce results.

You will face criticism. We all do. If you can learn to see it as a gift, you will experience great courage and personal power. Learning to deal with criticism in a healthy way is the keystone of self-actualization. "The highest quality that a human being can reach is to be independent of the good opinion of others." - Abraham Maslow Criticism offers you an opportunity--to clarify your dream and to become who you must be to do what you must do! Embrace it!

"The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty that you can deal with"  So says peak performance advisor, Tony Robbins. Life flows in a myriad of uncertainties.  The power comes from recognizing this fact and learning to bring certainty to the uncertainty.   If you can do this, then you will stand out in a world of those "losing their heads".  

In this episode, I discuss the idea of one's "calling".  I tell you why you should give up the search for it and how you can find it in the process. I share a simple equation for uncovering your personal power and encourage you to bring your true self to the forefront of your life. Finally, I share how to create a life of purpose and meaning, day by day.

Unmet expectations lead to disappointment and pain.  You can free yourself of the "Pain Prison" and here is how.

In this episode of the show I answer a listener's question "What if you don't know what tod o in life...how does one achieve balance or alignment?"  The truth is that there is no "magic pill,"  but I share some personal experiences as well as a powerful tool I have used to ditch the "work/life"  balance paradigm.

In this episode I talk about what "Epic Shit" Syndrome is and how to over come it.  I share why many of us as over-achievers set out on a quest for the "epic" in order to validate ourselves and our lives. I tell how to break this cycle through a simple realization.