Stop being tricked into ignoring your inner wisdom. — The inner voice can be a mystery. It’s soft, small, quiet, and hard to pin down. You want to follow it, but it seems so hard. This Is Why Your Inner Voice Can Be so Hard to Follow The number one way you get tricked into ignoring your inner wisdom is because it’s words are so simple. You expect the God within…

Plus 10 tips to painlessly reduce the sugar in your diet. — Decades ago, artificial sweeteners were touted as an answer to weight gain and diabetes. The food chemists assured us that they were inert chemicals that simply passed through the body while satisfying the human craving for sweet things. Lab created chemical compounds that don’t exist in nature added to foods, what could go wrong? It turns out these sugar substitutes aren’t simply passing unnoticed through your…

6 common sense actions to minimize anxiety — Anxiety is the most common mental health diagnosis in the US, and according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, nearly 20% of Americans have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety can feel so debilitating that it’s easy to want a solution to make it all go away. Anything to take the…

Because if nothing’s changed, we might as well be losing ourselves in fiction and Netflix, right? — A good friend of mine asked me today, “have all these self-help books and courses actually made you a better person?” We each agreed to sit down and make a list of what’s changed for the better (or worse) after years of contemplation. …

Learn how to expand your connection to the Divine — An ancient path for the “spiritual but not religious” is growing in popularity today. I was first introduced to the philosophy last year, and right away it felt like a good fit. For most my life, I’ve explored my relationship to God, but usually not through traditional religions. …

How to not become a self absorbed jerk. — The final goal of self improvement has nothing to do with the self. Keep reading, or watch the video here. Self improvement begins as an inner focused journey. That makes sense. Something inside is hurting, or life just isn’t working, and you begin a path of self help to try to put the pieces together or make things feel better. The goal of…

Could expanding your definition of leadership help you see the leadership qualities that are already inside you? — Whether you relish it or are terrified by it, we’re all called upon to be leaders at times, and often it’s when you don’t see it coming. Some people look like natural leaders and seem to have the confidence and communication skills to make it look easy. …