by Merci Gracia | Jan 7, 2013 | Fear, Feelings, Focus, Success, Thoughts, Worry
Any success or failure you experience in life begins with your thinking. Fearing unhappy outcomes, bemoaning challenges and worrying about what’s wrong, lowers your energy and makes everything you do more difficult. Focusing on what you love about your...
by Merci Gracia | Jul 26, 2012 | Appreciation, Focus, Success
While approval from others feels good, basing how you feel on external affirmation is an unreliable approach to happiness. It postpones it until the future and puts the fate of your emotional condition in the hands of others. There’s a much more direct and...
by Merci Gracia | Jul 22, 2012 | Grateful, Happiness, Joy, Success
Sometimes the desire to achieve a future objective interferes with enjoying the process of getting there. You don’t need to give up your goals to get around that dilemma. You just need to learn the skill of finding something enjoyable in everything you do. When...
by Merci Gracia | Jul 2, 2012 | Empowering, Fear, interpretation, Perception, Success
You don’t spend time conjuring up calamitous what-if scenarios when your mind is peaceful. You don’t need to take action to feel good about yourself or avoid action because you fear failure. You know that new routes can never be found unless you’re...
by Merci Gracia | Jun 4, 2012 | Beliefs, Challenges, Fear, interpretation, Solutions, Success
You might feel like a failure if you don’t achieve the expected outcome in the desired time frame. But, an enormous portion of human creativity and innovation results from the unintended consequences of failures. They can also grow your personal understanding...
by Merci Gracia | May 26, 2012 | Authenticity, Conscious, Discernment, Happiness, Perception, Success
Don’t confuse fame, money or even a great career, with happiness. Those are just what society designates as markers of well-lived lives. But the truth is, these things won’t make you feel fulfilled. They might make you proud or satisfied for a brief moment...