Some think fear comes from our lizard brain, but my lizard was intrepid, determined, and bold. I say fear comes from our second grade brain. Here’s what to do about it.
What’s worse than lizard brain, and how to keep it from holding you back
Tag: fear
New Ebook: How to be Happy (No Fairy Dust or Moonbeams Required)
Do you wish you could enjoy life more? Do you feel like something is missing, like there has to be more to life? At the same time, do you feel guilty for being dissatisfied when you could have it much worse? You need to know this stuff!
Seven ridiculous fears I had last month and how I kicked all their asses
Our chances of going hungry, being eaten by tigers, or falling off a cliff are vanishingly small. So are we happy? No, we get busy fearing smaller things instead. Even when the things we fear are excruciatingly tiny and ridiculous, the fear can still stop us if we let it.
Wait, don’t jump out of the plane after all! (an alternate view on fear)
Everybody’s talking about confronting your fear head-on and jumping out of planes. What to make of someone advising the opposite?
10 Tips for Getting Out of Your Own Way
You want to do something, but… you put it off, you think about all the things that could go wrong, maybe you talk yourself out of trying at all. If you would just get out of your own way, imagine what you could accomplish! Here are 10 tips to help.
How to know when to quit
Do you ever wish you could see into the future and know how things will turn out, so you can stop throwing energy at things that aren’t going to amount to anything?
Filled with dreams but stuck? Here’s a push.
There are a lot of different kinds of stuck, and a lot of different resources to help with them. Normally I don’t review stuff here, but this is just too awesome not to share.
How to rock 2011
After the holidays, returning to work and all the ordinary routines can feel a year’s life force is sucked away every morning you walk in the office door. That feeling sucks, but it can be channeled into a good opportunity to re-evaluate your life.
Life Guides: Ash Ambirge of The Middle Finger Project
The best way I’ve found to do that is to do work that is interesting and meaningful to me, work I love. I just need to figure out how to support myself while doing that. That’s why I’m so excited to feature someone who can offer guidance on this very thing: Ash Ambirge of The Middle Finger Project.
The way to happiness: who’s right?
There’s a lot of conflicting advice out there about how to be happy. What should you think in order to be happy?
Why it’s so hard to get started
If you try a lot of things, expecting some to fail, you maximize your chances of success and take the scariness out of starting.
How unhappiness works–and how to beat it
Pop quiz: only one question and it’s multiple choice. What would make me happy? a) winning the lottery b) my loved ones truly appreciating me c) a lifetime supply of chocolate d) my neocortex Happiness, and unhappiness, are actually pretty simple, but they’re not caused by circumstances like most people […]