How You See Your Cup Matters

Don’t dismiss an optimistic outlook as simplistic or naive. Seeing the cup as half full improves how you feel. A positive frame of mind energizes, while a negative one consumes vitality. When it comes to your attitude toward life, you have complete free will....

Choose Joy

Everyday you’re bombarded with messages of tragedy and doom. Listening to all this might make you think you have the inside scoop about what’s going on in life. But since you can’t really know what anything means in the grand scheme of things,...

Why the Real You is Perfect

When the world is predictable, it becomes boring! While social norms allow people to live in proximity with a degree of safety and cohesion, overemphasizing convention discourages creativity and uniqueness. It sometimes even encourages you to repress or disguise the...

The Secret to Making Positive Change

Do you know what you want and even have a list of changes you think are required to get you there? You probably want what you want because of how you think it will make you feel. Rather than taking the long route of making external changes, first notice how...