September can feel as full of promise as a new book bag filled with pristine notebooks and freshly sharpened number two pencils. What would you like to start now? Decide,…

Labor Day weekend can be the ideal time to relax, refresh, and rejuvenate. Learn how you can choose to reduce your stress and return from your weekend with renewed energy…

Does thinking “What if…” keep you awake at night? Fearful thoughts can be a cue to begin the habit of worrying. In this week’s podcast, learn how to interrupt the…

Great relationships are not found, they are created. Close friendships and successful marriages grow out of choices we make daily. Learn how to strengthen your most important relationships in this…

Do you ever tell yourself that you should or should not feel a certain way? Feelings are not facts, but they do serve a purpose. How you handle your feelings…

Any sentence that starts with the phrase, “If I had known…” is likely to lead you into dangerous mental territory. Could-duh, would-duh, and should-duh are words that make you feel…

Will you step out in faith, or will you let fear stop you? Go for your dreams with help from this week’s encore podcast. http://traffic.libsyn.com/decideddifference/Decided_Difference_podcast_124.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |…

Want to feel better immediately? Go on a news diet. You will feel better when you lose the weight of all that worry. Learn more in this week’s encore podcast….

Do you want to be happier? Try something new. Learning something new helps contribute to happiness in multiple ways. First, just doing something novel engages your brain and your attention,…

Beating yourself up for mistakes you made in the past takes emotional energy, energy that you could be putting toward learning something new, working to improve your situation, or simply…