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Instead of eradicating your weaknesses, maximize your strengths. We all have different strengths and weaknesses. The tendency can be to focus on and eradicate our weaknesses. However, research suggests that by identifying your unique strengths and applying them more...

You’re not lost. Have you had the experiencing of feeling lost? You’re not sure of your next step or where your life is headed? Everything seems to be happening around you but you don’t know where you fit into it all? It’s uncomfortable. But perhaps you’re not as lost...

Has nothing good happened yet? Maybe you’re just growing like bamboo. My jiu jitsu teacher, Milton Regis, used to liken our martial development to how bamboo grows. He told us that in the first 5 years after planting bamboo seeds, you don’t see anything. Nothing...

Sometimes Plan A is not an option. Chris Feudtner is a pediatrician who focuses on improving the lives of children with complex chronic conditions and their families. He often has to have conversations with parents that he describes as the most difficult of their...

If you need to tell people that you’re meditating for them to know you’re meditating, keep meditating. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, says that for the first years of meditating, don’t tell anyone you’re meditating. Every time you...

One of the most painful things for me to hear about is how brutally people beat themselves up with their own minds. And it’s so common. Abrasive thoughts can have tremendous power over us if we have not trained ourselves to experience them differently. Next time you...