Motivation to succeed. Motivation to implement. Motivation to create. These are the common search topics entrepreneurs seek out when feeling stuck and minimum drive to keep going on their entrepreneurial journey. I have discovered that it's not the lack of information or know-how that determines if someone will succeed or fail as an entrepreneur. It's the lack of motivation to start and persevere until the desired goal or outcome is reached. What if you are more driven to succeed by fear based motivation? Sometimes it may not be the actual goal itself that motivates someone to take action, but ..read more

As we look at the interactions between families and what makes a group dysfunctional, it is safe to say that ALL families have some dysfunction from time to time. However, when we look at ongoing dysfunction, especially that which is passed from generation to generation, these families have a higher rate of maladaptive behavior. This behavior breeds conflict, chaos, and confusion that tends to cause significant harm to family members, individuals, and relationships. Individuals growing up in a dysfunctional family and environments are commonly impeded by negative behavior like the lack of empa ..read more

Confidence is your competence or feeling of confidence the leads to the willingness to carry out a task in a specific area, like public speaking, talking to strangers at a bar, competing at a national spelling bee, or board surfing. Confidence is the act of doing. Self esteem is your level of admiration and overall approval of yourself, for instance, not liking the freckles on your face, the color or texture of your skin, feeling damaged because of past abuse, feeling unloved because of an absentee parent, or embarrassed for stuttering and mispronouncing words. The overall measurement of how m ..read more

One trait of highly successful women is conscientiousness. Conscientious is one of the five personality traits linked to success that reflects a person’s pattern of being well organized, hard working, goal oriented, reliable, responsible, self regulated, and keen to abide by the norms and rules. Successful women tend to be highly conscientious and willing to work hard for their relationships. Successful women have a strategy for success, including combining opportunity (reward, prize, or accolade) with hard work to obtain the reward. In relationships, successful women attempt to use this same ..read more

Self love sets the foundation and precondition on which you love others. You cannot give others what you do not hold within yourself. Self love is your birthright, and non-egotistical or selfish. When you learn to love yourself in a healthy way, the desperate hunt for affection and love from others falls to the wayside. To love yourself is to acknowledge your existence and know your worth. It is self acceptance of your experiences, failures, and story. It is caring for your mind, your body, and your spirit. In your adult years, you express the same protection, kindness, care, acceptance, and g ..read more

Self esteem is a natural state or feeling that comes from within. There have been many factors that contributed to the development and building of your self esteem. Many people believe that self esteem comes from external things that are acquired by the transactions of money, sex, or time. However, self esteem is your personal evaluation that gauges your overall approval, feelings, and beliefs you hold about who you are. In fact, your current level of self esteem is the accumulation of all of your experiences and interactions throughout your life. Self esteem stems from the amount of attention ..read more

Dating and selecting the right mate can be one of life's most challenging tasks. Usually, when we look for an ideal partner one of the character traits we assume they all have is the ability to be loyal. However, research shows that 15-20% of partners cheat in their marriage and 60% of singles cheat in their relationships. This is alarming news but this article isn’t about stats and why people cheat. Due to my own failed relationships and marriages, I wanted to take a deeper look at “why” we choose relationships with cheaters. Yes, that’s correct. If we have experienced a series of relationshi ..read more

Self-esteem is your emotional evaluation of how you feel about who you are, how much you like you and the approval of who you are. Your self-esteem is developed over time. Everyone in your life (parents, relatives, friends, coworkers, partners, teachers) and your life experiences (good or bad) have contributed to and affected your level of self-esteem. These same contributing factors that develop your self-esteem can also be the root cause of low self-esteem. Low self-esteem doesn’t just happen. It’s normally a mixture of too much of this combined with too little of that, that ends up giving u ..read more

After experiencing an abusive relationship you try to distance yourself immediately from the abusive situation and completely forget that any type of abuse or violence ever happened. Life after abuse can be difficult. Starting over and separating yourself from your past is not always easy or perhaps not a long-term solution for coping with the aftermath of abuse. Abuse affects your mind, body, and spirit. But there are ways you can start to heal and move forward with your life. Here are some proven secrets about accepting and acknowledging what happened and how they can help you heal. You ..read more

It’s funny how at the ending of a relationship or marriage you look back and see all the mistakes that were made. Mistakes that could’ve easily been prevented but resentment, fear, and insecurity blocked the good intention of making your relationship work and long lasting. I can honestly say for myself; I’ve swiped out several great relationships along my path struggling with these same issues. How about you? The fog even thickens as we converse with our inner circle of friends of the family stressing the fact of having normalized relationship baggage appears to be. You carry bags of hurt, ,pa ..read more