Lolly Daskal

Our habits, whatever they may be, were greatly influenced, if not totally formed, during childhood.
We learned our behavior through imitation-imitation of our parents, our siblings, our peer group.
But we need not be stuck in habits that are unhealthy.
The choice to create new patterns of behavior is ours to make- every moment, every hour and every [...]

That which we fear grows in proportion  to our preoccupation with it. The more we fear a thing, the bigger it becomes which in turn increases our fear.
We can move forward and through anything. All situations can be met. All experiences can be survived. Avoidance is no longer our technique for survival.
As Eleanor Roosevelt said, [...]

Although we attempt to make it complex, the essence of life is simplicity.
Being a good parent to your children, having loving relationships with your partner, being of service to others- these are the fundamental requirements that nurture the human spirit.
Too often, however, we get lost in the hectic pace of modern life and lose touch [...]

According to an ancient tale, a Sufi village was attacked and captured by a group of warriors. The king of the victorious tribe called the Sufi Leaders and said that unless they could tell him what would make him “happy when he was sad, and sad when he was happy,” the entire village would be [...]

You do not have to have a life-threatening disease or a bad situation to ignite your passion to live.
Some of us are called to it, by numbness, fatigue, or just plain boredom.
Some of us have the sense that we are not using our fullest potential and the feeling frustrates us.
Even at our happiest moments, we [...]

Like a rear view mirror, feelings face backwards. They show what is behind us- not where we are now and not where we are going.
The way we feel now has been conditioned by lessons we learned in the past.
Our habitual feelings are reflections of where we have been and who we have been with.
To keep [...]

On February 26, 2010, Susan Mazza and I will be facilitating a powerful workshop called Cultivating Your Inner Circle For Success. In the past few weeks I have received an enormous amount of emails asking me what does it take to Cultivate Your Inner Circle For Success?
So today, I want to take the time to [...]

How often do you play the comparison game?
Sometimes you believe that if only you had the luck the other people had, then you would make it in life.
Are you not forgetting that luck really has nothing to do with the good things you have in our life and that fortune is the result of making [...]