If you’re sad or depressed, I’m very sorry that you’re not feeling as well as you could. And I wanted to share some ideas that might help you to reframe your situation—or at least your thoughts about it—to give you some relief. Let’s do a little diagnostic first. First, why are you sad or [...]

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Please take a look at my friend Morty Lefkoe’s blog post on creating your own happiness.  This principle is really critical to removing perceived roadblocks to amplifying your dreams and goals into reality.  Take a read.

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Dear Friends, Amplifying your dreams into reality is easy and fun!  Would you like to join me on a fun-filled journey this year that leaves your current reality behind and crafts the reality of your dreams? Are you ready to Amp It Up?! I’m writing to invite you to a call next Thursday, January 27th, [...]

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A few years ago I got this (paraphrased) question in an email from a woman who had received my email about driving a stock car down at the Miami-Homestead Speedway at 135 mph.  If I recall correctly, she objected to two things: 1), that I would take such risks when I was a mother, and [...]

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You probably have been counseled to “act as if” your dream or goal has already come true in order to improve its chances of becoming reality.  Does this work? Well, we know it worked for my friend Katie, whose story I told in my book.  She won the lottery. She’s a great teacher when it [...]

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Two years ago, Michael and I ran a half marathon for the first time (This picture is not us ).  As I trained for that, I ran farther distances than I’d ever run before.  I remember stepping off the treadmill after running 8 miles, and my brain registered a little “poof!” of surprise.  Even my [...]

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Care of Bethany Gonyea and Healing Springs. The crowd that participated was lovely and warm and so curious about the science of Amping It Up!  There were some very interesting questions offered…one was, “I’m not passionate about anything.  How do I discover my passion?” Stay tuned for the answer!

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At a recent speaking engagement for the Commonwealth Institute in Miami, I was asked, “What do you do if you have too many possibilities available to you?” This question took me a bit by surprise, because mostly I help people who are not seeing the possibilities that exist for them.  They get stuck thinking that [...]

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I was blown away by the choices these brave servicemen and women made to keep Spc. Channing Moss alive.  Sometimes you have to break with protocol.  Warning: the video is a bit graphic. Takeaway: what rules are you willing to break, what norms are you willing to step outside of, what ego-driven thoughts are you [...]

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Michael Merzenich, faculty member and researcher in University of California San Francisco’s department of otolaryngology (head and neck surgery), wrote with a colleague that through attention, “we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work, we choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are [...]

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