If you want to live a better life, if you want to step into these habits of highly successful people, you’ve got to stop wiggling out on your own integrity. Your goals can be positive obsessions that drive you towards development, or they can be hungry ghosts—an endless desire to feed yourself with status or something outside of yourself. Success is about how you feel in your own human skin, and it will require the courage for you to totally trust yourself, to make who you truly are on the inside into how you actually live, on the outside. In this podcast episode, learn the habits of highly successful people that *really* matter.

Skipping a daily practice is like saying, “I have the option to do something to improve my happiness and well-being, but hey, I won’t take it.” When you feed yourself emotionally, the healthier and stronger you are. We live in a world where people suffer emotionally in greater numbers than ever before, and it is no crime to create ways to build your emotional resilience. That’s what a daily practice does for your life—it builds that emotional resilience. In today’s podcast episode, learn how to build a powerful daily practice.

Without a doubt, it’s not helpful to try to bypass negative feelings--but it’s also not helpful to write off possibilities when changing a negative mindset. Changing a negative mindset isn’t possible if you aren’t willing to own the fact that you feel stuck. At first, changing a negative mindset feels like a ton of work. With time, seeing what more is possible can become a habit.

Embrace the inner critic? What? Yes--and here’s why: If you practice abusive behaviors, you become the abuser--and this is true whether you abuse others, or yourself. There’s something so much bigger awaiting you when you decide not to hate your critic or wish it would go away. To embrace the critic doesn’t mean letting it get away with poor behavior--there are other options--and that’s exactly what today’s podcast episode on how to embrace the inner critic taps into.