When asked why self-compassion is better than self-esteem, Dr. Mark Leary, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University explained: “For many years, American society has seemed to have an obsession with self-esteem. We’ve had the idea that if we could just make people feel good about themselves, that it’s going to solve psychological problems, …

Let go and live in the now. Let go of regrets. Let go of minor annoyances before they become major conflicts. Click here for a blog from Tiny Buddha on How to Sustain Happiness with great tips on how to detach ourselves from things we tend to cling to.

“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” -John Maxwell Most people go through life believing that bad things just happen to them. They are hapless victims in the randomness of life. A person may blame their miserable behavior on the fact that someone flipped them the …

“When you want something, all the Universe conspires to achieve it.” – Paulo Coehlo That is the central theme behind the much touted book The Alchemist. In it, the protagonist, believing a recurring dream, decides to go to Egypt to find a treasure. Along the way, he finds love, gets a little roughed up, learns …

You’ve heard it all before. Live in the moment! Stay in the present! Don’t worry about the future! But all of that is easier said than done when you’re preoccupied with paying the bills, taking care of a family member’s health, or undoing some indiscretion in the past that you can’t fix. But it’s not …

Feeling stuck? Have your creative juices stopped flowing? Sometimes we work so hard that our brains just shut down. When you don’t have anything to give anymore and you’re no longer in the flow, it’s time to reassess what you’re doing so you can get back on track. Get out and play Working yourself to …

Ever look at those perpetually happy people and wonder how they got to be that way? While some of us are born with sunnier dispositions, the rest of us have to work a little harder to feel balanced and content. But just because you weren’t born with that extra dose of serotonin doesn’t mean you …

Many of us have enviously read Eat, Pray, Love wishing we could just take off and see the world as Elizabeth Gilbert does in the novel. Not just for the escape her journey represented, but because of her ability to transcend her own mental chatter and find herself. Isolation and solitude can be scary, but …

By Kim Somers Egelsee I have had the beautiful opportunity and adventure of experiencing Niurka speak numerous times at events, seminars and workshops throughout California in the past several years. As a result of attending events like SUCCESS magazine’s symposium, workshops like Sales Mastery, and seminars such as Supreme Influence In Action, I have gained …

Sometimes we want so badly to “fight” against our situation. We want to wrestle against something that clearly isn’t going to go our way and never was going to. Like a job, a relationship, or a friendship that just isn’t working anymore, we refuse to accept what is, insisting on bending things to our will. …

When many people think of yoga, they think of lithe, lean celebrities like Madonna or Gwyneth Paltrow toting around their designer yoga mats and espousing the benefits of a macrobiotic diet. And while that’s all well and good, there’s so much more to yoga than just the physical. One of the original reasons that Hindus …

By Jeanie Marshall We are all manifesting all the time, whether we are in a state of balance or imbalance, and whether we aware of the process or not. I am a great advocate of taking time — and it takes surprisingly little time, but it needs to be regular — to attend to being …

Live in the now. Are you sick of hearing about it yet? Or are you on the same quest to master this art. On the same quest to bring serenity and peace into your life? On this journey, you’ll begin to see other people as mirrors. As they talk to you, you pick up on …

You hear about the importance of being in the now, being in the present, and being in the moment. Click here to read Part 1 of Living In The Now. It’s one of those things that is often easier said than done. Studies have shown that mindfulness meditation (meditation where you focus on the present …

By Kim Somers Egelsee Inspirational Speaker / www.kimlifecoach.com Throughout our lives, we achieve, succeed, learn, grow, play and much more. Much of this we do with the help, participation and involvement of other people. Sometimes we have a group of people that we spend regular time with. Other times it is our best friend, significant …

This series was inspired, believe it or not, by a dog show. The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan… ever heard of it? Not only does he rehabilitate dogs, but also trains people to live in the now. As I watched dogs reacting to their owner’s negative energy, usually energy of fear and anxiety due to …

I can remember a time back when I was a younger man. Looking into the mirror … I would say things like “Dang, you look good” and “Who wouldn’t want to go out with me”? Anyone thinking, or maybe even openly saying to themselves…. “This guy is arrogant” or “He sounds very conceded to me”. …

On the final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah talked not about all the celebrities she’s interviewed or all of the things she accomplished. No, she talked about purpose. Everyone has purpose. You have a purpose because you were born. She described a moment in which she was standing with her grandmother who told …

The Joys of Generosity Like you, I have heard that it’s better to give than receive, but that hasn’t always been an inherent component of my belief system. As a child I was downright stingy. My family made fun of what I now like to think of as frugality, but back then was simply termed …

Affirmations are a very easy way for you to help yourself. Whether you use them to build up on good feelings and get clear on what you want, or you use them when you’re feeling anxious to calm down, affirmations are always available for you. I started using affirmations to help me clarify the vision …