Your Perceptions Will Control Your Outcome and Life

When I was in middle school my girlfriend announced to me she was going to be trying out for the cheerleading squad. Our relationship consisted mainly of us riding our bikes to school together each day. Occasionally, I might call her after school. The cheerleading squad in our school cheered for the basketball team. I attended a public high school in middle school and the basketball team was the most important one in the school. The entire gym filled up with students, parents and teachers every Friday night. Everyone was very enthusiastic about it. [Read more]

Depression, Health, Boredom, Interesting People and Self Esteem

I remember my first encounters with the self improvement industry when I was younger. In many areas of the United States, people look at self improvement as something that is absolutely crazy. This is how the people around me viewed it when I was growing up. When I think about self improvement, however, I think about people doing things like:

• …trying to improve their mood and level of happiness,
• …trying to improve their health,
• …trying to become interested in new things,
• …trying to meet other interesting people,
• …trying to improve their self esteem.

This is for the most part what self improvement is all about–these five things mentioned above. [Read more]