Susan was such a champion of affirmations. “I can handle it,” “It’s all happening perfectly,” and so many others to help us conquer our fears. Another affirmation, which appears in Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, is “I know that I count and I act as if I do.”…
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A Useful Way to Pretend
Embodying the change that you want to make in your life is a much more proactive way to meet your New Year’s goals, as we talked about in this month’s newsletter article. Here is an example Susan used to explain exactly how it can work. In college, Megan developed a…
Creating Holiday Blessings With Patience
In Life is Huge!, Susan offers six tips for creating your own holiday blessings. But there is one tip not on the list that underlies each of those lessons—PATIENCE. Each of the six tips begins and ends with patience—with others and especially yourself. It’s easy to get on the blame…
Another Holiday Lesson
This month, we’re talking about Susan’s lessons for creating our own holiday blessings. The following is another Holiday lesson she wrote about in Life Is Huge!: Stop trying to change other people. You may want everyone in your life to follow your perfect “script,” for the holidays, not theirs. As…
Susan’s Guided Visualization
One of the best tools we can use to get in touch with our anger and fear is visualizing. In Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, Susan gave an example of a guided visualization she used on her audio The Art of Fearbusting. She recommended that you record yourself…
Anger Can Be a Learned Behavior
As we’re talking about how anger can be used to mask fear this month, we wanted to tell you about Jack and how he learned to face the fears behind his anger. Jack had always been quick to anger but in his mid-30s it began to become a real problem.…
We Cannot Control the Future
In Embracing Uncertainty, Susan wrote about three realities of “uncertainty.” The first is, The only certainty is that life is uncertain! The following is an excerpt that explains this first “Reality of Certainty”: On a very deep level of your being, you want guarantees. Isn’t that true? You want a…
Online Communities vs. Real-Life Communities
We are lucky to live in such an exciting world. With instant communication through our phones and computers, we can be in touch with like-minded souls the world over with just the tap of a keyboard. If you have an unusual hobby or like a very narrowly defined thing, chances…
The Language of Openness
Making friends online can be so much easier than in real life. We can choose how we want people to see us and we can showcase only the parts of ourselves that we like the most. But online connections are no replacement for real life interactions. Hiding behind our screens…
Hedonia v. Anhedonia
Western society has given hedonism a bad rap. When we read the word or hear it, we get the feeling there is a wrongness to it. We liken it to a wild party that’s gone on for days, or people who only live for their own pleasure. But really it’s…