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“I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding.” – Miranda Kerr “One of the more ridiculous myths about “true love” is the idea of the soulmate – that there is someone out there who is your perfect match. A good relationship is about navigating the numerous differences between you – over politics, food, money, how to raise children,” says author Kate Figes. Everyone wonders about their relationships, and some people often find themselves comparing their relationship with their significant other to the relationships of people around them. Common questions that run through people’s minds include whether or not their relationship is happy and healthy. Certainly, they can feel that way, but relationships can feel differently to people while they’re in them, versus after they’ve ended. While there’s no right way to have a relationship, there are some standard things that most happy relationships meet every da...

The mind loves to think and it always seems to want your full focus. In fact, the mind sometimes resembles a five year old child – it wants its way and it never wants to sit still. Sometimes, it’s even so reckless that it makes us think and even say things we normally wouldn’t if we were in a more relaxed and quiet space. If you allow your brain to continuously run a mile a minute without ever interjecting, it will only press on with the madness until you discover that your mind has slowly become a prison. Learning to take time to quiet your mind, instead of distracting it, can be one of the healthiest things you can do for yourself. It seems so simple, yet it’s life changing. 3 TECHNIQUES TO STOP OVERTHINKING IMMEDIATELY: 1.  CONNECT WITH NATURE. If you don’t live or work in nature, then you need this the most. Take time to get out in nature. This could mean going on your lunch break in a nearby park, or going on a vacation to get away. Anything you can do to strengthe...

A lot of people have the impression that getting smarter involves reading tons of books. This couldn't be further from the truth. One can easily increase their intelligence quotient by broadening their horizons with even the smallest of activities. How we approach certain situations can substantially improve our mental horsepower. Getting smarter doesn't involve a huge commitment of time and energy. A little bit of effort every day can take you a long way. We've compiled a list of 10 simple actions that will make you a smarter individual. Read the day's paper When you are up to date with the events happening all around the world, you can strike up meaningful conversations with almost anybody. Not only that, you'll also learn to form informed opinions on varied subjects like politics and science. Follow interesting people We have a world of information at our fingertips today thanks to social media. Following interesting people on Facebook and Twitter and ...

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” ~Mahatma Gandhi Cancer. I’ll never forget the moment the words fell from my doctor’s mouth. In one fell swoop, the “perfect” persona that I’d spent thirty-plus years carefully constructing received what would ultimately become a fatal blow. Following that fateful day of demarcation, my life would never again be the same. But let me back up a bit. By the time I’d arrived at my early thirties, I was cloaked in all the trappings of outward success: a lucrative career in the high-paced, high-stress world of high-end commercial real estate; a swanky West L.A. apartment filled with pretty things and a closet full of designer clothes; and a perfect size-two body that I’d finally learned how to punish and deprive myself into maintaining. At that time, I was what I would now refer to as an expert in applying “Band-Aids.” Desperate to avoid confronting anything uncomfortable—whether in the realm of my body, mind,...

If you realize the importance of internal relationships, and you know how much our emotional intelligence helps to put people at ease, create trust and respect, align people and further a can-do attitude, then I believe you will appreciate this blog post. If you are not especially familiar with emotional intelligence and the part it plays in highly effective leadership, I hope you will read this blog post carefully. Either way, I would certainly welcome your feedback and ideas Emotional Intelligence Leads to Personal Achievement, Happiness, and Professional Success It is widely accepted that soft skills such as active listening greatly affect how people feel and respond to their boss and senior management. If they feel valued, appreciated, and heard, they are engaged and motivated to achieve goals set out by leadership. Great leadership is, in fact, servant leadership: attending to team members with empathy and helping them succeed. Emotional intelligence deepens our empathy—a c...

“Love yourself first so you know what you deserve.” Lately I have been meeting people who have been pretty disappointed when it comes to the word “love.” I have heard the laundry list of woes on romance from being afraid to be alone out of fear of never meeting someone to compromising happiness and settling for second best in a relationship. Then there are the common questions of, “If not this person then who?” and “When will I meet someone I really love and loves me?” or “How can I love myself?” How can we find ourselves beyond a romantic relationship, and does a romantic relationship have to define our sense of self? I feel like it has become this ingrained belief that we need a relationship to define our path and identity and if we don’t have that relationship by a certain time frame in our lives then we have missed the window for that fairy tale ending. We may question if something is wrong with us and why don’t we have that special someone with kids like “everyone” else...