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By Morty Lefkoe Imagine that you had been doing something a certain way for a long time and you believed that you were doing it the right way. Now imagine that I come along and tell you not to do that way any more. I give you a lot of reasons and I promise a [...]
By Morty Lefkoe All of you who read my blog posts and who signed up on my website to eliminate a limiting belief are “weird,” according to best-selling author and popular blogger Seth Godin. Why would he apply that term to you? Seth uses the term “weird” to describe anyone who is not “normal,” in [...]
By Morty Lefkoe How many times have you attended a personal growth workshop, or listened to a self-help audio course, or viewed a set of DVDs designed to change your life? Given the type of people who usually read my blog, probably most of you. And how many times did you get a high when [...]
Valerie Young writes, “Sometimes signs arrive when you least expect them. On a recent dog walk along the Connecticut River, I spotted a large white sign tacked to a tree on the opposite shore. The sign contained a single word: Start. “This simple but powerful word got me thinking of all the different places someone [...]
A profile by the Institute of Noetic Sciences notes that Morty Lefkoe “made a series of discoveries that allowed him to help people make permanent changes in their emotions and behavior.” His program, The Lefkoe Method, is based on overcoming beliefs that impact our self-esteem, anxiety, confidence, fear of public speaking and other challenges. Based [...]
Among his many wise and witty observations on being human, Mark Twain commented about some of our thinking: “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” Morty Lefkoe addresses the nature of self-limiting beliefs and how to overcome them in programs of [...]
Morty Lefkoe quotes Joe Vitale: “I realize that most intentions are limitations. Intentions come from your ego and can actually limit what is possible for you to receive… “For me, I want inspiration. When it comes, that becomes my new intention. But the intention comes from inspiration, not from limitation. The intention comes from the [...]
Emma Watson is a Brown University sophomore. She says, “This college experience is really important to me, and I won’t give it up for anything. “I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. “Being at Brown has totally taken [...]
Books can be valuable tools for self-understanding and change, but are they always worth the investment of time and money? One of the top selling self-help titles has been Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! by Anthony Robbins. In their Scientific American Mind article [...]
“I believe I can fly; I believe I can touch the sky; I think about it every night and day; Spread my wings and fly away; I believe I can soar…” Dick (Jim Carrey) from a scene in Fun with Dick and Jane. Feeling exuberantly self-assured after getting a promotion, he sings the R. Kelly [...]
By Carrie Oakley Online education has redefined our lives in more ways than one – it has made quality learning accessible to people irrespective of location, distance, cost and prior qualifications; it has brought education to us instead of making us go in search of this valuable asset; and it has made it much easier [...]
By guest author Morty Lefkoe Why do so many people believe that they have to put in a lot of time and effort—and then need a lot of reinforcement—in order to produce a lasting change in their life? People hold this belief because they have tried unsuccessfully to change a variety of things in their [...]
Entelechy is another term for the force that motivates and guides us toward self-fulfillment. Whatever we call it, it’s powerful. Eric Maisel, PhD writes in a sample from his Meaning Solution Program: Self-actualization is a lovely word that stands for our desire to make the most of our talents. Instead of using only a small [...]
As a child, we probably did not have to think much about motivating ourselves. If we were in school and had art activity time, we just went ahead and painted something. As adults, we are more concerned with goals and affirmations and other strategies to motivate us to feel energized to do what we want [...]
Why do I sometimes feel so at odds with myself about making changes in my life? Walking every day, working on my novel, keeping my home organized, dating. I want to…or do I? Dave Shearon has some insights into the psychology of change in his Positive Psychology News Daily article: Change is Hard, Except When [...]
“Back and forth, we must switch between intellect and intuition, between rational, objective knowledge and embodied paradox.” That quote is from the book Radical Nature: Rediscovering the Soul of Matter, by Christian De Quincey, PhD. – in my post Intuition: powers and perils in which I also quote from the article Intuition or Intellect, by [...]
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Site author: Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology, is a writer and researcher on the psychology of creative expression and personal growth, especially for high ability adults. He is publisher of the Talent Development Resources series of sites.
