1534 What to Do When Things Go Wrong
Ever wonder what to do when things go wrong on the way to your dream? Sooner or later we all find ourselves in a situation where something we had really high hopes for fails. When that happens it’s easy to let ourselves get sucked into nasty negativity spirals where...
Expanding Your Comfort Zone
I came across a quote a while back that really “spoke” to me about the importance of expanding your comfort zone. I have no idea who actually said it, but the phrase was: “a comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there”. Like most people, I find it...
1533 Concentration Hacks for Getting Things Done
Today we are talking about concentration hacks to help you stay focused when your mind keeps wandering but you really need to get stuff done. [powerpress] We’ve all been in those frustrating situations where we’ve got deadlines and important stuff to do, but we just...
When the Unexpected Happens
What do you do when the unexpected happens after you've invested a lot of time, effort, or emotion into something and it just doesn't work out they way you hoped it would? Last week I was up to my ears preparing for a seminar that I was supposed to give on Saturday....
Is This Your Fight Song?
I had a conversation with someone the other day and he was telling me about this awesome song his daughter had been listening to. It was Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song”, and I agree – it’s a fantastic song. Not only is it catchy and eminently sing-able, it’s got a great...
1532 Easy Mindfulness Techniques
Today we’re talking about easy mindfulness techniques that you can implement in your everyday life for a calmer, less stressful existence. [powerpress] One of the best things that we can do to help us to maintain balance and achieve alignment with what we want in life...
You Do Not Need to Convince Others
The other day somebody asked me how she could help her sister understand all this LOA stuff. This person was tired of being challenged on her beliefs by her sister, and felt that this sister could benefit from truly understanding how the Universe works so that she...
What Makes Something Meaningful?
What makes something meaningful to you, and why is important to know the answer to that question? Some of the worst experiences I’ve ever had in my working life came in jobs where I could not find the meaning in what I was doing. I saw no greater purpose or benefit to...
1531 What it Takes to Turn Dreams into Reality
I spend a lot of time around here talking about dreams and how to make them happen. It’s what I do here – help people figure out what they want in life, and then show them how to get it. In order to understand what it takes to turn dreams into reality, however, it...
Committing Yourself to Your Dream
I recently learned an interesting lesson about the importance of committing yourself to your dream and what it really means to know that you’re going to make something happen or achieve a specific goal. My teacher for this particular lesson was a little kid, and she...
Stop Beating Yourself Up
Last week on the podcast, I talked about strategies for helping you get over the plateau when you start to despair that your dream is never going to happen. One of the strategies I mentioned was to stop comparing yourself to others, and the corollary to that is that...
1530 What to do When it Feels Like it Will Never Happen
Today we’re talking about what do when it feels like it will never happen. This one is specifically for my entrepreneur readers and listeners, but it’s also applicable to dream-builders of all types, because it’s something we all deal with at one point or another....
Can You Use LOA to Repair a Friendship?
Can you use LOA to repair a friendship? This question comes from a blog reader who emailed me to ask about fixing a tattered relationship with a friend: I'm fairly new to the LOA, but am wanting to manifest a restored friendship with a specific person. I'm feeling...
1529 How Do You Know What You Are Meant to Do with Your Life?
One of the most common questions I get in the emails people send me is: how do you know what you are meant to do with your life? People all over the world are wondering how to tell if they’re on the right path. They want to know what their life purpose is, and they...
How to Cope with People Problems
I’ve received emails from several different people over the past week telling me that the biggest thing they’re struggling with right now is people problems -- their relationships with other individuals in their lives. When I get clusters of people asking about the...
1528 How to Visualize Your Goals
Today we are talking about how to visualize your goals. Provided you use it properly and don’t fall into the counter-productive trap of using it too much, visualization is a powerful technique for helping you to manifest the things and experiences that you want in...
How to Change the Way You Look at Things
Last week, I wrote about how your opinion of the world around you actually creates your experience of the world. In essence, your attitude, beliefs, and expectations about the world shape the version of the world that you are living. Believe that the world is a...
1527 How to Make Exercising Easier
I got an email from someone the other day who said she was having a really hard time sticking to a fitness program and wanted to know how to make exercising easier, or at the very least, how to make a mindset shift so she didn’t hate it so much. [powerpress] She said...
What Do You Think of the World?
What do you think of the world these days? What’s your opinion about “most people”? When you think about the future of this planet, what do you see? What was the first thing that came to mind – your automatic reaction – when you first read those questions I just...
1526 How to Believe in Yourself
Have you ever wondered how to believe in yourself when it feels like everyone around you is against you? The core mantra here at Vibe Shifting is that “If you can dream it and believe it, you can always achieve it!”, and I believe that 100%. But how do you get that...
When Are You Too Old to Build Your Dreams?
Is it ever too late to achieve a big goal or make a dream come true? When are you too old to build your dreams? An awesome reader left a comment on last week’s setbacks post that touched on something I feel very strongly about. He felt that age does play a factor in...
1525 How to Beat the Mid-Year Slump
The end of June marks the mid-point of the year, and what often comes with it is the dreaded mid-year slump. It’s the time of year when we start berating ourselves for all the times we’ve procrastinated on stuff over the last few months, and when we start to feel sad...
How to Deal with Setbacks
Sometimes when you're building a big dream, you run into roadblocks; sometimes, no matter how hard you try, something you really wanted to happen just doesn't pan out for you, and you're left wondering how to deal with setbacks that leave you feeling so despondent...
1524 How to Skyrocket Your Success Rate
Today we’re talking about how to skyrocket your success rate, and I’m going to go over five simple strategies that you can use to increase your odds of successfully achieving your dreams and goals. [powerpress] There are so many of us who have these wonderful dreams...
How to Find the Silver Lining in Bad Situations
Sometimes life throws us curve balls, and sometimes those curve balls can be so devastating that we wonder how we’re ever going to get through it. When these kinds of thing happen, you wonder how to find the silver lining to the negative event when you can barely even...
Can I Use Law of Attraction to Grow Taller?
Today we are answering a question I received from an awesome reader who asks: can I use Law of Attraction to grow taller? Specifically, our lovely reader says: I am new to law of attraction, and I am having a little trouble understanding how to use it to my benefit. I...
1523 How to Stop Doubting Yourself
Today we’re talking about how to stop doubting yourself when you’re working towards your big dreams. Doubt is something that all of us deal with, usually on an ongoing basis. It’s something that we need to face over and over again because as we clear up old doubts,...
Shifting Your Mood with Mindfulness and Gratitude
One of the best ways to make a big, lasting shift in your mood and outlook on life is to make a lot of little shifts in the way you approach each day. Shifting your perspective on the events that unfold within your daily life is one of the biggest keys to creating an...
1522 How to Stop Being a Perfectionist
Today we are talking about how to stop being a perfectionist, and I’ve got five strategies to help you out with just that and get you over the whole perfectionist thing. [powerpress] Have you ever allowed your desire to do something perfectly, keep you from doing it...
Are You Visualizing Too Much?
One of the standard techniques that we use for manifesting the things and experiences that we want in life is visualization – the practice of imagining, in detail, those things and experiences as if they were already our reality. But are you visualizing too much?...
1521 How to Find Your Passion in Retirement
Today we’re talking about how to find your passion in retirement – how to figure out your direction or your purpose once you’ve made the decision to leave the traditional working world or once your children have left home. Usually, when I get questions from people who...
5 Focusing Tips to Help You Concentrate
What do you do when you’ve got important things that you really need to get done, but you just can’t seem to concentrate on them? Here are five focusing tips to help you fight off distractions and regain your productivity when your mind keeps wandering off! Tip #1:...
What it Looks Like to Conquer Your Fear
I’m obsessed with fear right now. Conquering your fear is the subject of my upcoming book, Extraordinary, and I’ve been living and breathing this stuff for almost a year now. Researching. Writing. Weaving the material together in a way that will not only help people...
1520 How Can People Be Horrible at What They Love?
Today we’re talking about what it means when people are really horrible at what they love, and what to do if you’re in that situation yourself. And we’re answering a question I received via Facebook, from an awesome reader who asks: Do you ever watch any of those...
I Don’t Know What to Do With My Life!
“How are you supposed to figure out what you want to do with your life? How am I supposed to pick classes when I have no idea what I want to be? I am so f*** stressed. I have no idea how to figure this out. I don't know what to do with my life and I have to decide by...
Easier Said than Done
Have you ever seen something written somewhere, or had someone give you a piece of advice that you know would be helpful, but your instant response was: easier said than done! It’s something that I used to catch myself doing fairly often in the past, until I realized...
1519 How to Let Go of Attachment
Today we are talking about how to let go of attachment when you’re trying to manifest something in life. But before we do, I just want to share some really big news – I got published on HuffPost earlier this week, which was super-exciting and something that I had on...
How to be More Mindful
One of the things that I mention frequently as a something that can help us to maintain balance and achieve alignment with what we want in life is the practice of mindfulness. But have you ever wondered how to be more mindful in your own life? Mindfulness can help...
Dreams Come True: How I Got Published on HuffPost
I talk about dreams a lot on this site, because I believe that dreams are in our hearts for a reason. I believe that they are a direct connection to the greater power out there – the Source from which we all came, and to which we always return. We forget who we truly...
1518 How to Create a Personal Advisory Board
In today’s podcast episode we’re talking about a simple, four-step process for creating a personal advisory board of handpicked experts to help you along in your dream-building endeavours, because when you start working on your dreams, you’re going to run into snags....
How to Get Dressed to Manifest!
I've got a fantastic guest post for you today from the very amazing Kathy Pfeiffer of Beauty Valued. Kathy is a color and style analyst who helps her clients get dressed to manifest by using their best colors and styles to access their personal power. When we feel...
Why You Should Focus on Fun
In a recent podcast episode I talked about how to get into alignment with what you want to manifest in your life, and one of the keys to achieving that alignment was to just get happy – enjoy life! Laugh, play, relax a little, and just generally let yourself feel...