Achieving Your Authentic Potential
Your Perception, Your Reality
Internal World vs. External World When you focus on your authentic potential you adopt the belief that your lens with which you view the world is the primary shaper of your reality. Your external world predicts 10% of your well-being and potential. Your internal world determines 90% of your well-being and potential. When you learn [...]
Your Potential vs. Average
Our current models of happiness and well-being are based on the study of averages. Consequently averages are considered to be the norm that you can expect to achieve. Traditional psychology research focuses on these norms or averages and determines what is possible based on what is average for most people. It then turns its attention [...]
Reaching Your Success Potential?
What is Success? The standard strategy for success includes working hard to achieve a particular goal. Once you attain this goal then you will feel successful. Once you are successful then you are happy. Work Hard Model: Work Hard = Achieve Goals = Success = Happiness This model does not account for how the brain [...]
Achieving Your Authentic Potential
Emotional Intelligence
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Pursuit of Happiness: Life’s Ultimate Aim When asked what most people want in life, they will tell you it is to be happy. Typically, if they answer with some other external factor such as financial freedom, material gain, love relationship or degree of success this is most often because they believe acquiring this will [...]
Happiness Set Point
Glass Half Full or Glass Half Empty? Mainstream thought has traditionally believed that happiness is hardwired. Consequently, throughout one’s life whether gaining a job or losing one, getting married or divorced, there are those who will view these circumstances more optimistically while others will take a more glass half empty view. This is known as [...]
Emotional Awareness
Master Your Emotions In a previous post titled, Emotional Presence we covered the first step to master your emotions; Presence. Emotional Awareness is your second step to master your emotions. Emotional awareness and emotional presence go hand in hand. The more present you are, the more aware you are of your moment-to-moment mental, emotional and [...]
