Coaching To Happiness

How Impatience Could Kill Your Dreams… And Harry Potter

Rob McPhillips — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:26:56 +0000

Harry Potter is a hugely successful franchise. It’s creation made JK Rowling into the first billionaire author and runner up for Time Magazine’s 2007 Person of the Year. The final book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” was released on July 21, 2007, and sold 11 million copies on the first day of its release, [...]

How To Love Your Life

Rob McPhillips — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:33:05 +0000

Last week’s post argued that love was the path to happiness. I wrote the post, sent out the link… and then kicked myself. I’d left out a key part. The obvious next question is, how do you love? And the answer is that the path to love is paved with joy. For love is the [...]

Why Love Is The Path To Happiness

Rob McPhillips — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:42:10 +0000

Someone asked me the other day what the difference is between love and infatuation and with that at the back of my mind, as I watched a Steve Jobs speech (posted below), it made me think. What struck me was that the answer is really the difference between real lasting happiness and hedonic pleasure. [...]

Protected: What I Learned From My Marriage Break Up

Brian Heath — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:31:29 +0000

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Emotional Healing Through Learning To Love (OK, Like a Little) Pain And Discomfort

Rob McPhillips — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:33:53 +0000

When I first started this website, I wanted to share some of the quotes, stories and poems that I found most inspiring. My favourite among these was a poem that has since become fairly famous, The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer. I loved the cold, bluntness that speaks of the challenge to living authentically. Recently [...]

How To Make Better Decisions And Heal Your Emotional Achilles Heel

Rob McPhillips — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:31:20 +0000

What’s missing in your life? Or perhaps the more accurate question for you might be… What area in life causes you the most suffering? photo credit: las – initially In everyone’s life, there’s some area that they just can’t seem to get working. One person might have a great career, happy social life, but just can’t [...]

Is Romance A Barrier To A Happy Relationship?

Rob McPhillips — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:35:30 +0000

My wife has recently been hooked on the Twilight series. She’s read the books and seen the first couple of films and is pestering me to go see the third film. So last night I had to sit through Twilight to get up to date before going to the cinema. And as I have a [...]

Why Is Change So Hard For People?

Rob McPhillips — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:21:07 +0000

The nature of what it is to be human can be crudely boiled down to two opposite states. To want, or not to want, whatever our attention is focused on. Much of the time, we don’t want what we have. We don’t want the debt, the extra bulges we see in the mirror, or the [...]

Why Are Some People Selfish And Others Selfless?

Rob McPhillips — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:42:26 +0000

Our biggest problems and main source of stress is other people. Every day we see people acting thoughtlessly or without care for others. Parents who go on holiday, or to a bar, and leave their young kids alone. Drivers that endanger others. Workers that take all the credit for other people’s ideas. Financial Speculators that [...]

Pain or Misery?

Rob McPhillips — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:19:29 +0000

Pain or misery is the clashing of what life is with what you think life should be. Give up the need to have life be exactly how you think it should… and you need never feel frustration and anger again. None of us have a deep enough knowledge to have the first idea, what would [...]