For many, achieving a restful night’s sleep is an elusive concept – sometimes it happens without much effort, and other times it is a an exhausting struggle between mind and body. Luckily, there are solutions – like changing the food and drinks you consume before retiring for the night. Here are a few that may be keeping you awake: Alcohol: It may seem like an easy way to make you feel relaxed and sleepy, but drinking alcohol actually prevents you [...]
We all have our own share of bad habits, or behavioral patterns we wish we could put an end to. While a lifetime of conditioning helps ingrain them into our everyday lives, it’s possible to make a conscious decision in this moment to choose an action with a more positive outcome. Often times bad habits are included in the story of who we are as if they are facts and not minor details that can be changed to better suit [...]
If you are feeling the stress of these tough economic times, it pays to remember the parable of The Mexican Fisherman … and to slow down and take the time to answer the 25 questions that follow the parable. Please “pay it forward” by passing the link to this page on to everyone you know who could benefit from this parable of The Mexican Fisherman and these questions. As the founder of IntenseExperiences.com and the free IntenseExperiences.com newsletter, I receive [...]
Studies have shown that practicing compassion has the ability to make people sublimely happy. In fact, the man with the highest measured level of happiness was actually meditating on the subject of compassion while scientists studied his brain. But compassion doesn’t have any place in business, does it? According to Google engineer Chade-Meng Tan, not only does compassion have a place in business, it actually has the ability to bring companies together – and, in turn, make them more profitable. [...]
If you find yourself trying to figure out how a relationship would work before the first date gets off the ground, then you may be unconsciously setting yourself up for failure. Most people find that their expectations aren’t met after seeing someone for a short while – thus creating a cycle of disappointing relationship after disappointing relationship. Questions like these start surfacing: “Will she get along with my family?” “Is he financially stable?” “Does he have a good relationship with [...]
Though it may sometimes seem like getting out from under a mountain of debt or other financial messes is impossible, it’s honestly not. By following the following six steps, you will be in the process of clearing it up: 1. Face it. It’s always easier to bury your head in the sand and continue blindly paying the minimum each month on your credit cards or otherwise ignoring your debt and hoping it goes away. Well, it won’t, so sit down [...]
Most people spend the vast majority of their lives operating from the power of their conscious mind. Unfortunately this is like to walking down a busy street with one eye closed – you only see half of what is actually there. It makes sense that we are perpetual conscious mind listeners because this is what society tells us to be. In truth, however, we have two other areas of our mind that are far more apt to see the big [...]
