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"Dr Ali has given us in The Tao of Dating the gift of the goddesses, reminding us that we women are the ones who hold the keys to our fulfilllment...that if we claim our feminine power of simply being who we are, we cannot but find the happiness we want in our relationships with men."
--Agapi Stassinopoulos, author of Gods And Goddesses in Love
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There have been a number a number of excellent books on happiness published in the past few years, and I have been consuming them avidly. Not only do I use their principles to help my students and hypnotherapy clients lead happier lives, but I also enjoy applying the principles to my own life. [...]
The other day I heard a friend say, “Y’know, so-and-so is really judgmental, don’t you think?” I couldn’t help but smile a little bit, since she was completely oblivious to the fact that, at that moment, she was engaging in the very same behavior she found reprehensible in another person — namely, being judgmental.
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Dave Barry, the author of such immortal classics as Dave Barry Does Japan, Big Trouble, Dave Barry’s Guide to Guys and Boogers Are My Beat, demonstrates novel and exciting uses for his new book I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood, rendering his interviewer pretty helpless with laughter in the process. [...]
Even though I’ve experienced and performed many such demonstrations myself, this one’s pretty dramatic in its impact and simplicity, so be sure to watch the first two minutes at the very least. Towards the end, he gives a practical mindfulness technique you can use at any time.
Meet my friend Bart. As a surgeon, every day at work he’s entrusted with the lives of others, and he handles the job well. He’s a genuinely gifted fellow. He’s also fit, healthy, and well-rounded.
In other words, Bart has made a lot of great decisions in his life, and continues to do [...]
If you were one of the attendees of the talk at RW in Santa Monica — welcome! Here are some of the resources I referred to in the talk:
stickK.com — website for self-accountability
Richard Davidson’s Google Tech Talk: Transform Your Mind, Change Your Brain
Resolutions Tracker Spreadsheet
If you have further questions, leave a comment [...]
Here’s an interview I did last week with Gretchen Rubin, fellow HuffingtonPost.com contributor and all-around star (Yale Law grad, clerkship with Sandra Day O’Connor, supermom, etc). I caught up with her at a reading she did at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, Southern California’s oldest and largest independent bookstore. My first time there — [...]
If Aristotle was correct in calling happiness the summum bonum of life — the chief good, the ultimate thing we all strive for in all our strivings — then The Happiness Project is a sure-fire recipe for having more of it.
A fun, funny and wise book written by Gretchen Rubin, a regular HuffingtonPost.com [...]
If I told you that by undergoing a training that takes less than 20min, you could boost your IQ by 30% on average, would you devote 20min to the exercise?
Think about it. If you’re starting at 120, this means you could go to 156. This is not a trivial improvement.
Well, I don’t know about [...]
