Your emotional life is like a beautiful room. The room may have windows looking out onto a lake, the woods or a majestic mountain. And the room has your favorite furniture. Perhaps a lovely reading chair, bookshelves and a fireplace. And people stop by to see you in your room. …
Over the years, I’ve known many people who were frustrated by life. Now, none of those people had objectively bad lives. They had nice careers. They lived in lovely homes and had pleasant friends and families. So, their circumstances weren’t the cause of their frustration. Rather, their frustration stemmed from…
Making big life choices is challenging. The problem is that we often make big life choices while under stress or a time constraint. And then we look back on our lives and think, “Why on earth did I make that choice?” The good news is that there are questions that…
It’s stressful when the people in our lives make profoundly bad decisions. After all, it’s hard to watch those closest to us suffer. The challenge is that often we mistakenly feel that we’re responsible for their bad decisions. Now, you may ask, “Well, aren’t I, on some level, responsible for…
During our younger years, we’re looking for excitement. We want to charge at life. And given that during our younger years we have some excess energy to burn, having a highly active lifestyle in our youth isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But as we get older, we realize that kind…