How much do you listen to music, and is it more or less than you did when you were younger?  Many people listened to music in college to help them study and somewhere along the way stop listening because they become ‘too busy.’  Music can be soothing, whether it is classical or hard rock, it just depends on the mood you are in when you are listening.  Finding time to listen to music once again can help us realize how good it is for us. Read Post

“Science of Happiness” implies that there is a formula, and a scientific method at that, that you can follow to discover what makes you happy.  Everyone’s formula is different because there are so many different factors contributing to each individuals own happiness, along with different levels of happiness; happiness from family, from our career, and from getting a refund check.   Everyone looks for happiness in their lives and the formula has many different parts to it and each part may be there in different amounts. Read Post

Some people consider other people “really lucky,” such as the people that accomplished their goals and dreams, those people would say they worked really hard to get it and that luck had nothing to do with it.  Helping each other out, along with hard work, would make sure that everyone cares if everyone else gets a fair deal and the people that need help get that help- in turn everyone would have more of a chance to act like themselves.  If one person is helped along in their career, perhaps in the said person would be more inclined to help other people along.  If we helped each other, no one would need luck, as everyone would have someone else to turn to. Read Post

People often say, “What are you complaining about?”  Our complaints are about things not being the way we want them to be, and complaining can help us figure out who we are, what we want and what we need to do.  The things that we really, deep down, feel bad about tell us who we are and what we really value.  Our complaints should tell us that there is something that needs to be changed and that we should listen to ourselves and do something about it.  Notice what you complain about, find one thing that you can begin to change, start working on it immediately; these are ways that you can help the situation. Read Post

If you had to define your values in five sentences or less could you do it, and imagine that your life depends on this, could you define your values immediately and without thought?  Something important relies on you being able to identify your values and that is the life that you live each day.  If you take a moment to think about your life, answer the questions are you happy, are you content, fulfilled, and satisfied; are you doing the things that you are doing for the right reasons?  Are you taking the time to make sure your values are met, for example: you value friendship, are you taking the time to make sure your friend is okay, and if not maybe your life feels like something is missing and as soon as you talk to your friend everything is back on track.  To re-orient yourself to your values, evaluate the answers to these questions: what are your top five values, how are you living these values and what is one thing you can do today to re-orient and re-commit? Read Post

From the LA Times: Need Help Parenting? OK, Just Hire a Coach: Britney Spears has a County court commissioner’s order to get a parenting coach or she might lose custody of her children; this article throws a spotlight on the many different types of people who need coaching in things.  Most people aren’t court ordered to receive a coach, they are just availing themselves to the growing class of professional coaches that includes psychotherapists and self-styled entrepreneurs. Read Post

One of the most distinctive characteristics of stressed out, Type-A, personalities is that they don’t take a lot of time off and when they do take a vacation they usually spend that vacation working.  Ask yourself a couple of questions: what is the worst that could happen and what if it does happen?  When you define your fears of taking time off things are rarely as bad in real life as they were previously believed to be.  Read Post

We are constantly making choices, from which shoes or socks to wear or what to drink; these choices add up and become a part of who we are as a person and influences the choices we will make in the future.  Because we have choices we can make changes; choices give us the power to change our lives. Read Post

I’d like to thank the following bloggers for disseminating Priscilla Palmer’s Outstanding Personal Development List (of which I’m recognized): Read Post

Some people believe that maintaining a schedule is something of the past and they believe that it is vitalizing and indulging to have no set agenda.  Lifehack.org states that: not having a set schedule frees you up to work on whatever you feel is most important- for example; in the past 20 years Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn’t kept a set schedule and they attribute this to the fact that his schedule was clear of any obligations and he could spend the required amount of time focusing on his political career.   Some people can thrive without have a schedule and then there are others who certainly need to keep track of everything they need to get done.  Life is a process of trial and error and finding the best, most successful and efficient ways of dealing with things is trial and error as well; knowing your basic schedule leaves you free to make other commitments, or decline them, based on the other things you have going on. Read Post