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Jumpstart – Feeling Happy

Video Audio Synopsis Imagine you feel sad. Where would you feel sadness in your body and what would that sensation be like? If I asked you to feel even more sad, could you? Of course you could. Now, imagine I asked you if you could feel happier than you already do, could you do that? […]

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JumpStart – Freshness

Video Audio Synopsis We begin to take things for granted over time because of a scientific phenomenon called “Hedonic Adaptation.” Hedonic – having to do with the senses Adaptation – become accustomed to So, our senses literally become accustomed to stuff over time On the positve side, this helps us adapt to negative circumstances but […]

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JumpStart – Liars

Video Audio Synopsis As children, many of us experienced the trauma of having people we admired and even adults who were our primary caregivers say mean and hurtful things to us. There’s a name for this: the trauma bond.   You become fused with the lies your parents told you and they become your self-image. That […]

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JumpStart – Your Bodyguard

Video Audio Synopsis Wouldn’t it be great to have someone with us all the time to protect us from threats and difficult situations? Well, we do have such a person but we block their ability to do the job. That person is us–ourselves, and rather than being our greatest supporters we often are not only […]

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JumpStart – Your Inner Popeye

Video Audio Synopsis The cartoon character Popeye would often say, “I am what I am and that’s all that I am.“ But who was he? “I am“ is the most powerful combination of words in the English language because it is how we define ourselves to the world. Many people miss use the power of […]

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JumpStart – The 18% Solution

Video Audio Synopsis I read a study wherein people were asked to squeeze someone else’s arm and that person was then asked to squeeze the first person’s arm back with the exact same amount of pressure.  The two were instructed to go back and forth each time equally squeezing the other person’s arm with the […]

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JumpStart – Faith

Video Audio Synopsis Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.” And during these uncertain times of pandemic, it’s easy to look back on the way things were and to look around with worry at the way things are. It’s during this time of isolation that we need to keep […]

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JumpStart – Words

Video Audio Synopsis Yesterday I was conducting a live webinar for the members of my Complaint Free Life group when someone asked if there was anything they could do to reverse their complaints. I explained that there is a very common word – – one that we often use too often and in the wrong […]

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JumpStart – Neighbors

Video Audio Synopsis So, you’re stuck at home during the Covid 19 pandemic, right? Well, so is your neighbor and as we discussed in a previous JumpStart, Chaucer was right when he said, “Familiarity breeds contempt.” (If you want to know why familiarity breeds contempt, check out my JumpStart titled “Respect”) While some neighbors are […]

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JumpStart – Abracadabra

Video Audio Synopsis “Abracadabra!” shouts the magician and in a flash, everything changes! The word “abracadabra” has been said by magicians around the world throughout time but no one is 100% sure where the word comes from. We do know that abracadabra is either of Hebrew or Aramaic origin (the language in which the Hebrew […]

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