His name is Ryan. He came to me for counseling and he had trouble explaining what exactly he needed help with. As I worked with him on improving his life, it became apparent to me that he was jumping from one big life endeavor to the next, never spending more than about three months on any single endeavor....
There are a lot of get rich quick scams out there. There are probably enough to keep you studying for the rest of your life. I’ve got the solution. Instead of get rich quick in six months, how bout get rich quick in five minutes! Yeah. That way you don’t have to work at all. You can just...
You wish don’t you? If there really was a “motivation pill,” you wouldn’t be reading this. You wouldn’t be intrigued by the idea of improving your ability to motivate yourself if all you had to do was pop a vitamin of some sort. But here you are reading this article, so I’ll reward you with...
It’s a simple technique I discovered through trial and error during a year-long stint of counseling college students at Baylor University. At LifeModification.com we focus a lot on achieving goals and getting unusually high-level results, and that should include the social aspect of your life. Relationships make life fun and meaningful. This article is about...
“When you run naked in the snow, it automatically means you are running barefoot.” She kept emphasizing this point as if I disagreed with her. “Everyone is talking about the benefits of barefoot running for the development of better endurance.” I kept wondering what this had to do with being naked. Similarly, you may be...
I do what I want. If I want to dance like a fool, I do it. That’s not supposed to sound cool. You would understand if you saw me dancing. What is cool is why I dance like a fool. It’s an awesome story, but it’s too long, so I’ll sum up my formula: I...
In Back To the Future 2, people were flying cars in the year 2013. I feel jipped! That’s two years away and it seems the automakers are getting closer to bankruptcy than they are rolling out the first line of flying cars. One thing they did get right was video conferencing with split screen view....
Some people have been talking about the idea of “peak oil.” The concept is basically that society may reach a point within the next decade where our global oil consumption continues to rise while the oil we can extract from the earth begins to flow more slowly, eventually tapering down to almost nothing. The fear...
Some of us were born with a desire to go beyond ordinary. You may think of it as some sort of instinct buried within your DNA, or you may think of it as some sort of pull from destiny. If you have that drive to become special or do something special, the idea of being...
Do you know the answer? What is the number one thing that parents want for their children? Is it wealth, fame, power, great relationships, good luck, or what? More than anything else, one answer dwarfs all the rest of the answers combined. It’s happiness. We want our children to be happy above all else. What...
Don’t tell me you didn’t feel it. After the movie, Inception, you may have experienced the most fantastic element of the movie, a real life experience of inception. As you watch the top spinning, wondering if it’s about to fall, the screen goes blank and you see the word, “inception.” After your mind followed the...
Why is it that we procrastinate on simple tasks like cleaning up the house or paying a few bills? In most cases, procrastination is at its worst when a task will require a longer period of effort before the payoff of a feeling of completion is reached. If you could sit down and pay a...