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“Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.” Valerie Bertinelli

In this episode, I speak with Dr Linda Wilson and Stress and Anxiety. It’s an awesome chat about how to overcome the accumulating effects that stress and anxiety have on our lives. It’s a conversation about breaking the conditioned state of being so we can move towards our ideal state. How do you want to feel? Why? Linda’s shares thoughts, practices and techniques to assist.  (more…)

The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have by Mark Nepo

“Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.” Mark Nepo

After experiencing cancer Mark awoke to the magic of life. He shares his awakening in this book – a spiritual story that found Mark living into all that already existed rather than being carried away the chaos of modern life. In sharing, Mark will not only inspire you but teach you how to live the life you want by merely being present and waking up to the beauty of life surrounds us all. (more…)

“Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.” Vernon Howard

A few times a week I go for a jog or a walk. On the last stretch of my trail, I venture along this small country road that falls between rice paddocks. Recently, in autumn when the rice has grown to its fullest, almost ready for harvest, I notice that part of some paddocks has fallen. (more…)

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Geoff Colvin is an award-winning thinker, author, broadcaster, and speaker on today’s most significant trends in business. As a longtime editor and columnist for FORTUNE, he has become one of America’s sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership, globalization, wealth creation, the infotech revolution, and related issues.

In this episode we discuss two of Geoff’s popular books including his newest book, Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will. Amid rising anxiety over the advance of technology and its effects on human workers, we discuss the future of humans and how we can remain valuable. (more…)

“I like to challenge myself. I like to learn – so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.” David Schwimmer

Success isn’t a result of external measures pushed on us from societal expectations. Success is the result of breaking our limits and pushing ourselves beyond our current story and self-perception. Success is to strive for improvement and progress. (more…)

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In this episode, I chat with Ira Israel, the author of How to Survive Your Childhood Now that You’re an Adult. It’s an inspiring and an all-encompassing conversation about how to live a meaningful life. We talk about how in raising consciousness and awareness we can move into a life of authenticity. The key to overcoming anxiety and depression and moving towards a deeper sense of happiness. It really is an exiting discussion that will inspire thought and action.

Ira is a licensed marriage and family therapist and professional clinical counsellor, Ira graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and holds advanced degrees in psychology, philosophy, and religious studies. (more…)

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Oreskes, Naomi, Conway, Erik M. (2010) Hardcover by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

Doubt: a feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction.

The opposite to doubt is certainty, conviction, confidence, and trust.

In this book – Merchants of Doubt, the authors go bravely into territory that many have not dared. They attack vital leaders, scientist and people of influence that have in their time very successfully created doubt among the public. Even in spite of hard scientific evidence and basic common sense. This book places those “Merchants of Doubt” in the spotlight. (more…)

“Perspective is the way we see things when we look at them from a certain distance, and it allows us to appreciate their true value.” Rafael Pino

When you take a photo, and the image you see is blurry, it is necessary to adjust the focus. It is better to zoom out then to zoom in and once you do the image becomes clear again, and at that time you can begin to zoom back in for closer visuals.

In life, when things are not going as planned, when there is a pain or when the world feels as though it’s against you, crumbling down, we must practice and learn to adjust our perspectives. (more…)

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“A little tiny small move today could actually change our future for the positive tomorrow.”

Peter Shankman is a spectacular example of what happens when you merge the power of pure creativity with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a dose of adventure and make it work to your advantage. An author, entrepreneur and corporate keynote speaker, this “worldwide connector” is recognized worldwide for radically new ways of thinking about customer service, social media, PR, marketing, advertising, and ADHD.

Peter Shankman is a busy guy and he always seems to have more than 24 hours in a day. How does he do it? (more…)

“Let death be what takes us, not lack of imagination.” BJ Miller.

I listened to this TED talk by BJ Miller a while back and had recently watched it again. It has an essential message about death and the process of dying as it relates to living life more fully.

It’s not a topic we often discuss nor is it a subject that we contemplate regularly. In this interview, BJ said, “We cannot solve for death, yet, but we can design for it.” (more…)