Experts say there are 4 predictable stages in a dating relationship. The first is the meeting and attraction stage followed by the curiosity stage where you’re both learning about each other. In the curiosity stage, you’re still on your best behavior, are preoccupied with superficial things like … Continue readingBuild a Healthy Lasting Relationship
Did you know that we are hardwired to want to become our best? Yep, as long as you and I are alive, we will want to do some type of self-improvement, set goals or make resolutions. We will want to improve our health, our relationships, … Continue readingUse Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to Help You Understand Your Motivation
Here’s something you might know but keep way-way back there in a small drawer in your mind that you rarely open: When you spend too much time thinking about what you don’t have, you close yourself off and aren’t as open with people and end up … Continue readingWhy have a gratitude practice
For the gratitude challenge, choose a period of 3 days, a month, or a year; whichever you can commit to. Because failures can be a downer, unless you’re very certain you can do a longer period, it may be best to start with the 3-day … Continue readingThe Gratitude Challenge
If you’ve ever tried to give up something that isn’t good for you, you know what a struggle it can be. When the stakes are high, quitting habits like smoking and overeating can be extremely difficult. Turns out, we humans are masters at the … Continue readingThe simple way to break a habit
In her new book, The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage, life coach Mel Robbins tells us how she masters the art of self-motivation and successfully changed her own life. She tells us: 5 seconds are what we need to … Continue readingMel Robbins’ Secret to Self-Motivation
Using poetry and spoken-word, Prince Ea shares some dope concepts on his channel. Here he’s serving up a healthy way to approach depression: challenge your self-perception. He is using a method we refer to in coaching as “re-framing” to give anyone who suffers from depression a new way to see themselves–as … Continue readingDepression and challenging your self-perception
In this Talk, actor Thandie Newton tells the story of finding her “otherness” — first, as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and then as an actor playing with many different selves. She shares the internal journey that helped her come to terms … Continue readingThandie Newton’s Ted Talk on Embracing Otherness is Everything!
File this one under #realitycheck. Dove had women participate in a Real Beauty project and the results showed a significant gap between how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us. The project: FBI-trained forensic artist Gil Zamora sits down to sketch two portraits of women: … Continue reading“Real Beauty” sketches show you’re more beautiful than you think
Want proof that you can do the right thing AND do well? The Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli donates up to 20% of his profits through his foundation, is married to his hometown sweetheart, and is hugely successful. He gives new meaning to the term, fashion conscious. We … Continue readingDesigner Brunello Cucinelli’s Life Purpose
Everyone has the ability to build mental strength, but most people don’t know how. It’s a skill that takes time and sometimes, great effort. We spend a lot of time talking about physical strength and physical health, but much less time on mental strength and … Continue readingThe Secret to Becoming Mentally Strong
Watch what happened when one less-than-confident guy enlists the help of a Style and Confidence Coach for a week! A wardrobe makeover, a kick-ass photo shoot, and a series of real life challenges — including trolling the streets and talking to strangers — went down. Some takeaways for … Continue readingI Tried Not Giving A F*ck For A Week
If you’ve ever struggled to fit in, you can empathize with a younger Shay Mitchell who used to hide her heritage with blonde tresses and colored contact lenses to look less like herself. Statistics show more than one-third of young women (and more and … Continue readingShay Mitchell: Why I used to hide my Filipina heritage
Want some honesty? Well, Arden Rose has some for you, starting with this: “It is such a female problem to be constantly worried about how you look… and how much you weigh… and if you’re doing enough… if you’re doing enough compared to the girl next to you.” … Continue readingArden Rose’s Body Acceptance Journey
If you want to check out philosophy, where do you start? What are the good books to start with? These are questions that Em from School of Life gets asked a lot so she put together a list of four books that helped to make … Continue reading4 books to introduce you to philosophy
Bigger boobs, different color eyes… We, women, want what we don’t have. I read a statistic a couple years ago that said a whopping 92 percent of women were unhappy with their bodies.92%!!! Although the media, by pushing unattainable images of beauty, bear some … Continue readingWatch what happens when these women get their ideal body parts for the day
For me, Kendrick Lamar is the poet of our generation and someone I file under conscious rapper. His words can help us look at ourselves differently and positively. To see his growth as an artist and as a person since 2008 when I first saw him in … Continue readingHow to live… In the words of Kendrick
Our inner dialogue determines how comfortable we are speaking up and expressing ourselves. And as you might suspect, if we’re too much in our heads, that makes us less comfortable. You’ll notice that engaging people are at ease with new people. Their body language is open, they look … Continue reading6 mindsets to make you more engaging
Buzzfeed brought together five professional models from around the world to share their thoughts on beauty and to reveal what they look like without makeup. And you know what? I was a little surprised to learn that many of them have the same hangups about looks and beauty as most … Continue readingModels reveal common misconceptions about beauty
Celeste Headlee is the host of On Second Thought; a Georgia Public Broadcasting radio program in Atlanta. She has worked in public radio since 1999, as a reporter, host, and correspondent, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and … Continue reading10 ways to have more engaging conversations
As I clicked on this Talk I thought about the Jim Carrey movie, Yes Man. In it, Carrey plays Carl a loan officer who is stuck in a rut and attached to some pretty anti-social habits. He said No to everything. That was until Carl … Continue readingShonda Rhimes – My Year of Saying Yes to Everything
Do you feel stuck… like you’re not moving forward in life? People end up here for different reasons but stucksville is not a neighborhood you want to live in. The first place to look when you want out is your habits. Habits are all the … Continue reading10 Habits That Are Keeping You Stuck
Can you learn to be more charismatic? Behavioral Investigator Vanessa Van Edwards thinks so. Vanessa’s 5 secrets to charisma: 1. Embrace imperfections. 2. Don’t be a conversational Narcissist. 3. Gush, don’t Gossip. 4. Use your hand. 5. Gaze deeply (in a not-too-creepy way, of course) … Continue readingBody language and learning to connect with new people
On her Self Magazine cover shoot last year, Kerry Washington shot this video and got to talking about what drew her to Pilates (we all need a fitness hook!), about getting motivation from inspiration, being a self-made woman and what she has learned playing Olivia … Continue readingKerry Washington: My secret to being a self-made woman is asking for help
So, we all want to grow… change… and become the best versions of ourselves. But sometimes, don’t you think we can be influenced by people wanting to change us for their own reasons? We’ve all been there — maybe at a time when we were … Continue reading7 Things You Shouldn’t Change For Anyone
