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Can you take it when the pressure is on?  How about when the pressure is financial? Let's talk about coping with money problems.

If you're interested in becoming successful in a material sense, you must be able to handle financial pressure. That means knowing how to give, receive, earn, spend, and save. Being broke is one kind of financial pressure, but if you think it ends when the money starts coming in, you are wrong. In fact, the more you earn, the more the pressure builds, and you need to be able to handle it.  

One book you may want… >>>

Today, let's look at a way to ask questions that will help you change your focus from problems to solutions.  

If you want to make your communications as effective as possible, and if you are interested in finding solutions to problems rather than becoming bogged down in them, this is suggestion that will help. If you ask the right questions, you can direct communications to get answers that are genuinely helpful.  

For example, if you ask someone "What's wrong?" you'll get an answer - often a long one - which will focus on the problem. But if you ask "What… >>>

What makes great leaders great? Is it attitude? Is it the number of people following them? Or could it be something else? What do you think a good leader does? Run the show? Tell others what to do? Lee Baca, Sheriff of Los Angeles County in California, has some interesting ideas about leadership.  

He believes that great leaders love problems. Great leaders will always run to the solution of a problem, not away from it. And with this attitude, this skill of not being afraid to face a challenge head-on, they bring along those they lead in the quest to… >>>

Can exercise make you smarter?  Maybe not, but it looks like it can help your brain work more efficiently. It's clear to almost everyone these days that what goes on in the mind has an effect on the body.  But did you know that it works the other way around, too? 

Research scientist William Greenough found that the brains of mice, that ran on treadmills and learned a balancing task, had far more blood vessels and denser nerve connections than the brains of mice that did not exercise. This suggests strongly that the mental demands of making the muscles work… >>>

Most of us know what a stereotype is.  It's an oversimplified, general opinion about what something or someone is like. You've heard of labor-saving devices. Well, stereotypes are thought-saving devices, because when you accept a stereotype, you don't have to think for yourself at all. Your idea comes to you frozen, prepackaged, ready to use. You just thaw it out and slip it into your brain like a microwave - nothing further is required. 

But do you realize how dangerous it is to have someone else do your thinking for you? The Nazis fed people stereotyped ideas of Jews and… >>>

Most of us know what it takes to stay healthy. Why, then, do we have so much trouble actually doing it? 

People are living longer than ever these days. However, with this added longevity often comes chronic illnesses that mean pain and diminished functioning for millions of elder citizens.  

The worst part is that many of these illnesses are preventable. Most of us know that if we do a few things now to improve our health habits - things like eating a low-fat, high-fiber diet, exercising, and eliminating dangerous habits like smoking - we will be much better off later… >>>

Just about everyone knows that good role models are important for a child's development, but have you ever thought about why this is true?

Now, if you are familiar with the work of The Pacific Institute, you know that it emphasizes visualization, because we have learned that our mental images, for the most part, are what determine our reality.  In other words, the way we see ourselves and the world is what decides how we will behave. How we behave determines, to a very great extent, what will happen to us. Role models serve as living, breathing mental images that… >>>

Have you ever gone shopping to buy just one or two things and come home with a couple of bags full?  Let's talk about the pros and cons of making impulsive decisions.

Do you ever act on your impulses, or make spontaneous decisions to do things?  Most of us know that acting on impulse can have negative consequences, like when you are in the grocery store or investing large amounts of money. But did you know it could also be very positive?

Let's dig a little deeper. You see, an impulse is nothing more than an urge to do something.… >>>

Everyone likes to give and receive gifts, and it doesn't have to be at a holiday time. Today, let's talk about how to look for a gift - for yourself.  

Did you know that you have a gift that no one else in the world possesses?  Maybe you have already discovered it. Your gift is your ability to live a life that expresses your unique personality and your individual talents through the work that you choose to do, the way you spend your free time and through your relationships.

Although it may seem hidden at first, when you search for… >>>

Why is it so hard for some people to change?  Let's talk about what happens when we try to behave differently.  

Did you know that whenever you act differently than you really believe yourself to be, you produce stress?  It doesn't matter whether the new behavior is worse or better than the old. If it's significantly different, it will generate stress. So how in the world do people change? Well, one way is to just grit your teeth and go ahead and throw yourself into the situation, act differently, and hang on until the new behavior is repeated often enough… >>>