The Consequences of NOT Providing Your Children with Choices

Raising children with an iron fist does not prepare them for a world where emotional intelligence, decision making, and reasoning is more valuable than physical strength and order taking. The fact is that when you don’t teach children how to make choices for themselves they learn to prefer to be told what to do by […]

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Counterpoint: Being Successful Does not Reduce the Fear of Failure

There is a common fallacy that success can cure many emotional ills. One emotional ill in particular many think success will fix is the fear of failure. Unfortunately, this is just not true. In fact, if you already have a fear of failure success will not reduce this fear, it will do the opposite. Success […]

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Lacking Motivation: Use Your Fears To Define Your Goals

There is fear that signals something is critically dangerous and there is fear that signals something is critically important. The latter type of fear is what I like to describe as the positive side of fear. If you lack motivation to pursue your goals, then I suggest using this type of fear to redefine those […]

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