Michael Angier, founder and CIO (Chief Innovation Officer) of SuccessNet, notes the Law of Attraction (LOA) discussed in The Secret dvd “is aligning our thoughts, beliefs, feelings and actions to attract what we want. It’s not some hocus pocus that allows us to have everything we want without any effort on our part… It does [...]
[If you weren't a singer, what else would you be doing?]
Joss Stone: I’d probably be a midwife, a social worker, a cook, or a makeup artist. I’m still deciding. Music will never leave me. But I am also a human being who needs to not be just a singer. This life is so short. [...]
While psychology has mostly concentrated on mental health disorders and how to deal with them, the field of positive psychology is exploring what helps make us happy and fulfilled – feelings that support our personal development and achievement.
The photo is psychologist Jeanne Nakamura appreciating the joking scowling of her colleague Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi of Claremont Graduate [...]
In her article The Secret Behind The Secret, Susan Fuller reminds us that more than conscious thinking impacts our lives and success:
“As The Secret streaks across the planet with dizzying speed, this seems like a good time to revisit this thing called ‘The Law of Attraction’.
“Every book on achieving your goals and attracting what you [...]
In his article How We Become Who We Are Not [from his new book The Mandala of Being], Richard Moss, MD outlines the dynamics we may experience in learning to be someone who is not our authentic self.
“How do children come to believe that they are indispensable to their parents’ well-being,” he writes, “and that [...]
Actor Virginia Madsen talks about her experience in ski school [Yes, Virginia, by Karen Breslau, More Magazine]:
Her third day on skis [Breslau writes], she persuaded her instructor to take her to the top of a black-diamond run — the kind inevitably named Devil’s Gulch or Dead Man’s Curve. She wanted to test herself.
“I was hurling [...]
Wayne: “Ok – we’re in Madonna’s bedroom… Whoa!”
Wayne and Garth [bowing to her]: “We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!”
Madonna: “Ok shutup – you’re both worthy.”
– [Wayne's World, 1991]
Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in their Saturday Night Live sketches had a lot of fun with their “I’m not worthy” bits.
But in real life, our endless variations [...]
Jim Rohn, in his recent article Walking a New Road asks some challenging questions about how we are living toward our goals and dreams.
“Sometimes we get the idea that we’re doing about 10% and there’s about 90% more that we need in order to make the difference for our fortune but probably the opposite is [...]
One definition of failure is an event or action that does not happen the way we want, like Demi Moore trying to create a pot in Ghost (1990) and losing control of the spinning clay. Of course, she and Patrick Swayze had other pleasures to distract her from feeling too much like a failure.
Acting is [...]
Our self-concept, positive self-regard and simply confidence, are key influences on how fully we realize our talents. We do need to feel good about who we are to passionately pursue – or even have – worthwhile ambitions for our lives.
But a new study led by San Diego State University psychologist Jean Twenge [titled "Egos Inflating [...]
