Purposeful Growth

Creating a New You in 40 Days

Dawn McIntyre’s The New 10 is a book specifically targeted to women, but men and women alike can benefit from McIntyre’s concise summary of 40 ways to improve your self-image. That’s the essential theme of The New 10: 40 Days to Creating a Boldly Beautiful Life From the [...]

Build Your Personal Growth Plans Around Strengths

It’s clear from the recent research studies out of positive psychology that a fundamental component of purposeful growth should be our personal and unique strengths. This term gained popularity with Dr. Martin Seligman’s landmark book, Authentic Happiness, which introduced the concept of unique personal strengths and called them [...]

3 Common Causes of Relationship Conflict

If your relationships are characterized by conflict it could be that you’re triggering relationship problems with one or more of the following three common bad habits or bad manners. 1. Sure I’m listening, uh, what did you say again? If that’s your common response to something your partner has said, [...]

Happiness Expert Ed Diener

Everyone wants to be happier. Once we have food, shelter, and basic security, nearly everything we seek in life is driven by a search for greater happiness. We seek great relationships because positive human relationships make us happier. We seek spiritual understanding because the faith and the promise of [...]

Common Bad Habits Can Damage Relationships

How do I know when I’ve lapsed into one of my bad habits? If I’m paying attention, it’s very obvious because my wife will roll her eyes, take a deep breath, and either walk away or change the subject abruptly to avoid an argument. Or my son will [...]

When Losing is Winning

An oft-used quote drawn from the sporting world is “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” That may be true in professional sports, but it’s really bad advice when it comes to relationships—all relationships, at home, at work, and at play. Is every discussion with your spouse a contest? [...]

Help with Breaking Bad Habits

Learn proven processes to help you break bad habits such as smoking, poor diet, drinking too much, and lack of exercise. This is not a sales pitch!

Change Your Thinking Change Your Life

If your life is tough, a drag of daily burden with a boring, unfulfilling job and family not much more inspiring, take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself if you could be at least a part of the problem. It turns out, you could be [...]

Great Personal Growth Plan

No one ever said personal growth and development is easy, but it is important. The world’s greatest philosophers have always told us to take the journey within. An example is this one from German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: “One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; [...]

Intuitive Healer Dr. Judith Orloff

Her nightgown drenched in sweat, nine year-old Judith Orloff awakens her parents to tell them she dreamed her grandfather has died and he came to say goodbye—she is certain he has died. Assured by her parents that she’s simply had a nightmare, Judith returns to bed. A few [...]