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Published!

December 15, 2021 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

After 17 years of writing a column syndicated in Northwest CA (and on this site), I will be in my first national magazine!

You can read the article by following this link.

If you’d like to sign up for the series, referenced in the article, it’s at https://shop.csl.org/product/hacking-your-habits/

Filed Under: Articles, Diet, Habits, Overcoming Perfectionsim, Weight Loss Tagged With: guest writer, limiting beliefs, motivational article, new thought, religious science, science of mind, thoughts and feelings

Avoiding Negative Drivers

August 31, 2015 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

Just to clarify, by “negative drivers,” I don’t mean people with road rage or people who tailgate.

“Drivers” are best thought of as models for inner patterns that influence our thinking, feeling and therefore the behavior we will do. Since they begin when we’re small children, one can say they are the voices of external authorities such as our parents. When we’re very young, we need our parents to direct us. However, as we age, we must take a look at what “drives” our behaviors and decide whether they’re still helping us or harming us. (For a great overview of drivers, follow this link.)

The five main drivers are:

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Filed Under: Happiness, Motivational Monday, Overcoming Perfectionsim, Psychology, Success Tagged With: human psychology, inner dialog, inner dialogue, inner doubts, inner voices, parenting, psychological impact

You’re Only One Step From Getting Back on Track

April 20, 2015 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

You’re always only one step from getting back on track.

As the expression goes, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”

So, when we slip up, we – with great intention – say, “I can start again tomorrow.” Yet, how often does that pattern repeat, leaving us over and over and over again, “starting tomorrow.”

That’s why it’s important to remember that you’re always only one step away from getting back on track.

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Filed Under: Diet, Excuses, goals, Happiness, Inspiration, Motivation, Motivational Monday, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming Perfectionsim, Think 1st Tagged With: getting more done, slip ups, staying on track, tracking

Four Ways to Improve Your Attitude to Be Happier, Healthier, and More Productive

April 15, 2015 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

As the story goes, a couple is concerned about the huge gap in attitudes between their two sons.

happy-&-angry-boys

One lad is a confirmed pessimist, his sibling the decisive optimist. Wanting to advance the cynical child’s outlook and guard the other from disappointment by teaching him that things don’t always go as expected, the parents come up with a scheme.

On Christmas morning, each youngster awakens to find his own sizeable, wrapped present. The dour child opens his and discovers in it the ultimate building set. As if on que, his demeanor sours and he whines, “There are too many pieces, I’m know I’ll lose a whole bunch of them and then I’ll be sad. Why would you do that to me?”

The upbeat sibling, on the other hand, unwraps his only to find a dirty, rusty horseshoe atop wads of paper. Undeterred by what appears to be a mean, lousy gift, he eagerly starts digging through the papers excitedly proclaiming, “Wow! There’s got to a pony in here somewhere!”

Attitude, our outlook on the events that make up our lives, will either elevate or ruin us because it determines our actions and therefore the manner in which others react to us.

I normally don’t write “how-to” columns but a coaching client recently asked how she could become more upbeat, so I thought, “What the heck, might as well share it more widely.” Making our planet a bit more cheery, one reader at a time, here are four of the more common reasons one’s attitude can take a trip to the dumpster.

Reason #1: All-or-nothing thinking

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Filed Under: Baby Boomers, Change, Failure, Newspaper Column, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming Perfectionsim, Power of Attitude, Self Talk, Weight Loss Tagged With: attitude, attitude change, bad attitude, better relationships, how to improve your attitude, personal attitude

Shrinking Time for More Success

February 23, 2015 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

Shrink your time frame and you’ll get better results.

Do you want a quick method to be feel more successful without changing a thing?

Of course you do; we all do.

Make your “window of success” smaller.

Let me explain.

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Filed Under: Change, Diet, Excuses, Failure, goals, Motivational Monday, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming Perfectionsim, Success Tagged With: habit change, making change, one day at a time, road to success, small steps, take time

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