Challenges of Performing Artists
Ready to Overcome Your Fear of Change?
Why do some of us struggle so much with change? A particularly relevant question in the current coronavirus disease situation we’re all facing. What’s the reasoning behind this fear of change? Keep reading for a few powerful techniques you can use to overcome this illusory fear . . . Think back to the last time…
Read MoreHow to Align Your Vision for Personal Success with Your Values
What does your vision for personal success look like? The definition of personal success is different for everyone, right? So to define yours, imagine that you’re on your deathbed. You have lived to old age, and your exhausted body is succumbing, breath by breath, to the decisive blow. In your final interval of clarity, you…
Read MoreMotivation and outcome: The nature of your motivation is the key to success.
The nature of your motivation is the key to success. If you want to make sure you reach the goal you have in mind you have to know what that goal actually is. We often start something with a certain idea in mind but we never ask ourselves how that idea came to be and…
Read MoreSerena Williams’ Body Shamers Should Just Stop.
Hold the phones– the New York Times may have just body-shamed Serena Williams. An article published on July 10th on Times begins by quoting the tennis star (who just won her 6th Wimbledon title) not on her past wins or how she’s managed to achieved such incredible success over the years, but instead on how she hides her “mold-breaking muscular arms” while…
Read MoreWhat motivates your student athlete?
Healthy Sense of Self is happy to be a sponsor of Bellevue High School Athletics. When Northwest Athletics called us proposing that we sponsor Bellevue High School’s current sport schedule of Football and Basketball, it got us thinking. What is the role of athletics in the larger picture of a whole education of a person? Participation in individual and…
Read MoreDear Cory Monteith: So what was really going on for you?
It is always a shock to hear about death that initially has no easy explanation. I saw on the stream of a friend on Facebook that a much loved celebrity was found dead and the cause is as of this writing “undetermined.” My daughter and I have been watching “Glee” for years and I loved the…
Read MoreMethod Terminology: Feel-Good-About-Self
Allow me to introduce myself. I am the illustration of the term “Feel-good-about-Self.” I am one of the 40 new concepts that are launched in the upcoming book by Antoinetta Vogels: A healthy Sense Of Self – How to be true to yourself and make your world a better place! I represent a feeling that…
Read MoreIt Takes Two to Tango
Be there to dance – be with him Be there to dance – be with her About a few decades ago I was trying to make sense of dancing the tango. I went to dance lessons and learned the steps: walk to the cross – tango, stop. I have loved the music for my whole…
Read MoreThought of the Day, June 21th, 2012
Survival in a lion cub is an instinct that he blindly follows using all his power and flexibility to not end up as a prey to other predators in the food chain we are all part of. What makes us human beings believe that we can do with less? Imagine you would put all that jungle power behind…
Read MoreStage Fright is rooted in Fear of Annihilation
You have an upcoming performance. You are well prepared but anywhere from a day (or several days) to 5 minutes before the event begins your hands become clammy, you start to shake,
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