Each of us have two separate and distinct minds. They do different things and sometimes they have a hard time interrelating and communicating with each other. The way I think of them is to imagine that you have an outer-mind and an inner-mind. The outer-mind is the conscious-mind that you think, analyze and rationalize with. The conscious mind is where we spend most of our time.

What I have been taught is that the conscious mind can be divided into four parts:  Analysis,...

The media spends billions trying to program us each day. You may think you are above the white noise of advertising, but we are not. With gas prices so high, why would you have an SUV? Are you really backroading that much these days? With so many SUVs on the road, why would you risk driving an energy efficient hybrid when it could get run over and hardly noticed by the Escalade?  This is all the influence of advertising and the media.

Something or someone influenced you...

In the movieI Think I Love My Wife,comedian and actor Chris Rock plays a sexually deprived husband and loving father who develops a crush on an old college friend that he bumps into (played by Kerry Washington). They start hanging out and his rekindled friendship with her awakens some romantic desires which create a disruption in both his marriage and his job.

When he becomes dizzy with lust and starts to lose his grip on his responsibilities at the prestigious...

Actions speak louder than words, so your belief system is more evident in what you do rather than what you say.

Ultimately, you want to start to identify negative belief systems that may be creating self-doubt which is holding you back and then formulate a strategy to transform them to more positive, productive beliefs. This is no easy task because the range of beliefs a person can have is huge and some beliefs are stronger than others. Also, change is easiest when it's...

It's usually difficult to remember the Big Picture.  Fascinated by events or people, we tend to focus narrowly only oncontent.  Example:How does God permit (or, how do you explain) all the fighting, killing, and suicide bombers on our planet?

Most of us go immediately into right and wrong.  We're right in our humanity and givingness: "They're wrong in their destructive thoughts and actions."  Right?  Not quite. There is a bigger picture,...

Gossips are surrounding us in our day-to-day doings, at work or in neighborhood, among friends or in fitness club. And we always get disappointed when find out that someone is gossiping about us. However approaching such kind of situations from statistical point of view could ease your grieve significantly.

First think about yourself. How many times a day you or your close friends say something about others? At least several times for sure. Now let’s presume that...

"Being an eight year old kid was an easy task. No job pressure, no financial crises. Family always there to bail out, playing with other kids was the only job. Those days were for Cricket and summer vacations the best part of a student life" - said my colleague looking at a small kid playing gully cricket with his friends. I nodded in affirmative and echoed a similar thinking. But some nostalgic thoughts knew it was otherwise.

As I rested on my bed that night post...

Not long ago in the Freudian nomenclature the term forgiveness would seem out of place, but in recent years psychology has been changing, and how we view forgiveness is an interesting example of that change. A number of psychologists now argue that healing of such wounds as child abuse for example is impossible as long as the victim is unwilling to forgive. 1(M. Scott Peck; psychologist) A case in point of a victim who was at one time unwilling to forgive, or unable to, is Simon...

As I sit here and write this, I can reflect on some great events in my life. The birth of my children, getting married, building a business that made me a millionaire and improved the lives of tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people and having a career that is rewarding in every way. At the same time, a very wealthy man who seems intent on my financial destruction has filed multiple lawsuits against me personally, which cost me that business, contributed to my wife divorcing me and...