Your subconscious mind controls the outcome of your life. But, you can control and shape your subconscious mind to manifest your wants and desires. You can eliminate previous negative thoughts by replacing them with positive thoughts. You can eliminate negative perceptions and beliefs by replacing them with a positive perception …
How many times have you said that you choose the totally wrong romantic partners and then complain that you are unlucky in love? Consider how often you have stuck to a strict, calorie-controlled diet all week, only to pig out on that delicious pepperoni pizza at the weekend. Think about …
What’s on your to-do list today, and how much of that revolves around other people? The chances are, that your day is filled with obligations such as work and family commitments, with little free time to focus on anything else. Whether you do the 9 to 5 work-commute routine, work …
When was the last time you poured your heart out and wrote a love letter to someone special? You know, the old-fashioned way of putting pen to paper and expressing your deepest feelings? With instant messaging, emails, and emojis, it’s easy to forget the romance of a handwritten letter. But …
Though you may believe that procrastination only has immediate ramifications—that marked-down grade on your late term paper, the fee added to your overdue credit card payment—it actually has long-term consequences that touch almost every area of your life. Procrastinators have poorer health, greater risk for mental health conditions, lower self-esteem, …
Self-esteem grows when you learn to stop listening to the negative inner voice that prevents you from believing in yourself. I talk to myself a lot. The conversation is usually a dialogue between the me that I love and the me that wants to bring me down. Over the years, …
The act of self-sabotage occurs when the logical, conscious part of you (the part that says eating healthy is important and saving money is smart) is at odds with the subconscious mind (the part that eats stress-eating chocolate and goes on online shopping binges). This is your anti-self — the …
When we procrastinate, we actually get stuck in a spiral, where one bout of procrastinating leads to another. One day of that turns into one week, which turns into one month, and before you know it, you’ve been procrastinating your life away for years. Understanding how that cycle works is …
Whether your procrastination comes from a mental health condition or just exists all on its own, it is caused by a combination of psychological factors, including how your brain works and how you think, feel, and behave, as well as how well you estimate time and whether you’re able to …
The first step in overcoming procrastination is deciding on a task to work on. This sounds simple but is surprisingly tricky. By definition, everything on your to-do list needs to get done, and there’s actually a lot of brain processing involved in deciding what to prioritize. Our brains do some …