Archives for April 2017

3 Little Reminders that Will Make You Feel Way Less Alone

04.30.2017 by Marc Chernoff // 50 Comments

3 Little Reminders that Will Make You Feel Way Less Alone

In the midst of bad days and hard times, it’s easy to look around and see a bunch of people who seem to be doing perfectly fine. But I assure you they’re not. We’re all struggling in our own unique way, every single day. And if we could just be brave enough to open up about it, and talk to each other more often, we’d realize that we are not alone in feeling lost and alone with our issues.

So many of us are fighting a similar battle right now. Try to remember this. No matter how embarrassed or pathetic you feel about your own situation, there are others out there experiencing the same emotions. When you hear yourself say, “I am all alone,” it’s just your troubled subconscious mind trying to sell you a lie.

There’s always someone who [Read more…]

52 Good Morning Meditations that Will Calm the Chaos in Your Life

04.23.2017 by Marc Chernoff // 32 Comments

52 Good Morning Meditations that Will Calm the Chaos in Your Life

It’s not what you say to everyone else that determines your life; it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the greatest power.

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. The mind is indeed your battleground. It’s the place where the greatest conflict resides. It’s where half of the chaos you thought was real, never did happen. But if you allow these thoughts to dwell in your mind, they will succeed in robbing you of peace, joy, and ultimately your sanity. You will think yourself into a nervous breakdown, into bouts of depression, and into defeat.

There’s no escaping the fact that you are what you think – that you can’t change anything if you can’t change your thinking.

But are you ready for some really good news?

You CAN change your thinking.

And mornings are one of the simplest times for making this change gradually transpire in your life.

Each morning is enormously important. It’s the foundation from which the day is built. How you choose to spend your morning can be used to predict the kind of day you’re going to have.

So when you first wake up, [Read more…]

5 Lies We Learned When We Were Younger (That We Still Live By Today)

04.02.2017 by Marc Chernoff // 43 Comments

5 Lies We Learned When We Were Younger

In 1914, the great inventor Thomas Edison experienced a devastating hardship. His entire laboratory burned down to the ground, and several years worth of his work was ruined.

Newspapers described the situation as “the worst thing to happen to Edison.”

But that was a lie!

Edison didn’t see it that way at all. The inventor instead chose to see his circumstances as an invigorating opportunity to rebuild and re-examine much of his current work. In fact, Edison reportedly said shortly after the fire, “Thank goodness all our mistakes were burned up. Now we can start again fresh.” And that’s exactly what he and his team did.

Think about how this relates to your life.

How many times have you heard it was the end, when it was really the beginning?

How many hopeless labels have been slapped over the top of your inner hope?

How many lies were you fed by people when you were younger, that have driven you to call it quits on those hard days when Edison would have called their bluff?

Today, I challenge you to challenge the lies you’ve been fed over the years, starting with five of the most common lies we’ve helped our course students unlearn over the past decade… [Read more…]