The last 14 years of my life have been profoundly dedicated to personal development, insight practices, and developing my therapeutic craft. During that time I have confronted my past and engaged in some transformational healing, I have targeted and achieved some amazing goals, including the creation of Paradigm Method™ Life Coaching, and I have eagerly explored the depths of my own heart and mind through spiritual practices like meditation and mindfulness.

In all that I have practiced and discovered, these 5 principles and practices stand out as having manifested the greatest impact on my life so far. If you are ready to take your life, career, health, or relationships to the next level, then get your pen and notebook ready, because here comes the top five to a happy life.

*This article also celebrates my one year anniversary of this adventure into blogging, and I look forward to many years more!

I'm sure you've been there, those key moments in life where you are called to make a decision that may change the overall trajectory of your journey:  Go after that degree/don't go after that degree, get into better shape/sit on the couch, start that new business endeavor/stay with the old job, stay in the relationship/leave the relationship, have that needed surgery/dodge it like the plague, etc. 

The decision to make a change, whether it be inner or outer change, is rarely an easy event, as so many variables tend to be involved. Thus life decisions of this magnitude will require a great deal of clarity regarding what we want, why we want it, as well as a path or strategy to get us there. Yet before action can be consistently taken, a deep sense of readiness and openness to big change must first be established; if not, your vision might end up collecting dust in the goal graveyard. Please join me in exploring common obstacles to success (our "edges"), and how we can overcome them in order to finally manifest the life and relationships we long for.

So much of life is a cosmic balance between seemingly opposing forces, do you agree?: The light and the dark, positive and negative, the yin and the yang. Yet among these oppositional forces, life has shown us that it lives from an "all inclusive" approach. It allows for rainy days just as much as sunny days, perfect health just as much as stage 4 cancer, and certainly death just as much as birth. Curious enough, that's not how WE play the game. We have all sorts of preferences, prejudices, exclusions, and rejections of what we want and don't want from life. In fact, some of us (points towards himself) have spent a great deal of time at war with life, and at war with "self." Certain emotions, thoughts, and memories we are more than happy to embrace, and others we build thick walls against. Problem: Everything we sweep under the rug, everything we cast into the shadows, and everything we run from, tends to run us. Ready for a change? Please join me in discovering our "shadow parts" and how digging into the darkness may just propel us further into the light.