Jake's Blog

Negative Self Beliefs You would rather be right than happy. If you need a refresher on this, go back to week three and re-read the post I...

What Are You Grateful For? Imagine, if you can, that everything you weren’t grateful for today, was gone tomorrow. Imagine if you forgot ...

The Value Society Awards Us In an earlier post, I talked about the importance of not hating yourself. Today, I want to talk about the...

How Do We Define Priorities? Our priorities are what we identify as important and how we spend our time. Sometimes, we have a very clear ...

Why Do We Dislike Ourselves? Your dislike for yourself is likely directly proportionate to how much you feel you are the person you want ...

Happiness and Interpersonal Relationships Studies show the clearest indicator of your overall life satisfaction and happiness depends on t...

We Tend To Remember Bad, More Than Good Our brains are hardwired to remember bad things, rather than good things. It was much more important...

A lot of your unhappiness stems from the fact that, deep down, you know what you SHOULD do to fix your problems. You just don’t want to do...

Comparisons Are Reality Imagine there is a terrible natural disaster. Your house and possessions are destroyed but everyone in your stree...

Self Destructive Behaviors So last week we learned about our choices and how they are all determined by either seeking pleasure or avoidi...

The One Fundamental Truth There is a fundamental truth about the behavior of living things—one simple element that controls every choice w...