Might as well face it… you’re addicted to love.

“Whoa, you like to think that you’re immune to the stuff, oh yeah. It’s closer to the truth to say you can’t get enough. You know you’re gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to love.” – Robert Palmer “I want you to want me.I need you to need me.I’d love you to love me.” […]

How to Prepare for the Upcoming Week in Just a Few Minutes

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Here’s a simple tool for you to use every Sunday afternoon or evening to help you prepare for the upcoming week. I call it “The Quad”. You can use a piece of paper or a Word Doc like this one or anything that works for you. The main concept here is that The Quad helps […]

The Pleasure – Pain Principle and the Real Reason Nothing Changes in Our Lives

  The pleasure – pain principle is simply that humans recoil from pain and run toward pleasure. That makes sense obviously. This principle is the primary reason we don’t work on our behaviors that we know we need in order to improve ourselves in all areas of life from weight loss, relationships, work, even our prayer life. […]

The Formula For Change in 2016 (or The “Who Moved My Cheese?” Formulation)

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Executive Summary:  The change you desire in life starts with you. Your destiny always has and always will be solely and completely your responsibility. You shouldn’t really be surprised by that!  Your life as assessed by you is the sum total of all your choices up to right now. The great news is that if […]

The Myth of the Harvard Goal Setting Study

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It just made too much sense not to be true! The oft-quoted Harvard Goal Setting Study stated that people who write down their goals are wildly more successful than those who do not. I’m a list guy myself from way back, so I have confirmed (to myself) the validity of this study in my own […]