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10 Wake-Up Calls People Receive Too Late in Life

05.23.2023 by Angel Chernoff // 46 Comments

There is a big difference between empty fatigue and gratifying exhaustion. Life is too short not to focus more on what matters most.

Before you know it you’ll be asking, “How did it get so late so soon?” So take time to figure yourself out. Take time to realize what you want and need. Take time to take calculated risks. Take time to love, laugh, cry, learn, and forgive. Life is so much shorter than it often seems.

In our line of work we speak with people on a weekly basis who have been forced to ‘wake up’ to life’s fleeting nature. Consider these two excerpts from people’s stories that we recently received in our email [Read more…]

18 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was 18-Years-Old

05.19.2023 by Marc Chernoff // 17 Comments

This morning I was reading a book outside my favorite beachside coffee shop when an 18-year-old kid sat down next to me and said, “That’s a great read, ain’t it?” So we started chatting.

He told me he was getting ready to graduate from high school next week and then immediately starting his college career in the fall. “But I have no clue what I want to do with my life,” he said. “Right now I’m just going with the flow.”

And then, with eager eyes, he began asking me one question after the next:

“What exactly do you do for a living?”
“When and how did you decide what you wanted to do?”
“Why did you do this? Why didn’t you do that?”
“Is there anything you wish you had done differently?”
etc, etc, etc…

I answered [Read more…]

27 Simple Things to Start Doing for Your Happiness this Summer

05.16.2023 by Angel Chernoff // 23 Comments

It only takes one person to make you happy and change your life this summer: YOU.

I am endlessly fascinated by the link between the way we choose to live our lives and the happiness we enjoy on a daily basis. There are choices you make every day, some of which seem completely unrelated to your happiness, that dramatically impact the way you feel both mentally and physically.

Over the years, through our coaching practice, live events, and coursework, Marc and I have literally spoken with hundreds of people who are struggling to find happiness in their lives. And what we’ve found is [Read more…]

20 Things My 90-Year-Old Grandma Told Me to Stop Worrying About

05.12.2023 by Marc Chernoff // 23 Comments

Some people wait all day for 5pm, all week for Friday, all year for the holidays, all their lives for happiness. Don’t be one of them. Don’t wait until your life is almost over to realize how good it has been. The secret to happiness and peace on the average day is letting this moment be what it is, instead of what you think it should be, and then making the very best of it.

Go ahead and sing out loud in the car with the windows down, and dance in your [Read more…]

9 Rules for Turning Life’s Endings into New Beginnings

05.09.2023 by Angel Chernoff // 27 Comments

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

When you can no longer think of a reason to continue, you must think of a reason to start over. There’s a big difference between giving up and starting over in the right direction. And there are three little words that can release you from your past and guide you forward to a positive new beginning. These words are: “From now on…”

So, from now [Read more…]