Blog on Wellness Pearls | Eillen T. O'Grady

The Rise and Fall of Urges: Surfing the Emotional Wake It is more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. —Virginia Wolf A recent...

Changing Behavior

Quiet Courage and Learning How to be Silent

11 Mar 2013

Eileen O'Grady

A Parable on How to Fix What May be All Wrong A friend of mine had a sudden revelation that he didn’t want to go...

Wellbeing

The Habit Loop

30 Jan 2013

Eileen O'Grady

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. —Chinese Proverb There is new research on the habit loop, which finds that when a habit emerges,...

Weight Loss, Wellbeing

The ANTI New Years Resolution

28 Dec 2012

Eileen O'Grady

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. —Albert Einstein Most New Years resolutions fail...

Goals

No Crying on the Yacht

12 Dec 2012

Eileen O'Grady

“No crying on the yacht” is what I overhead a mother tell her teenage daughter shopping in a clothing store. While a hilarious and abrupt...

Self Pity

Deploying Strenghts

11 Nov 2012

Eileen O'Grady

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious — Albert Einstein Our health care system is strongly oriented to “fixing” what is broken...

Using Strenghts

Consult your Teenage Self

02 Oct 2012

Eileen O'Grady

Consult Your Teenage Self to Find Your Power The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. —Carl Jung Having power is...

Wellbeing

Divide and Conquer: 2,504 Diet Books

28 Aug 2012

Eileen O'Grady

Divide and Conquer. A military metaphor: in order to rule [the self] don’t allow alliances of your enemies [unfulfilled or unspecified needs]. Truth isn’t always...

Weight Loss

Independence Day, Everyday

20 Jul 2012

Eileen O'Grady

Set up a life that does not need escaping from —Seth Godin Earlier this month we celebrated Independence Day, the idea of liberty and what it...

Wellbeing

Escape the Willpower Trap

26 Jun 2012

Eileen O'Grady

There is a dramatic difference between knowing and doing. We all have places that we may be stuck. There may be something in our lives...

Changing Behavior, Goals

Energy Goes Where the Energy Flows

06 Jun 2012

Eileen O'Grady

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. —Aristotle Since at least Aristotle’s time (384 BC), we humans...

Wellbeing

Drop the Boiling Pot

19 Feb 2012

Eileen O'Grady

There is an old story about campers who set a pot of water on their campfire and went into the forest to collect more wood. ...

Changing Behavior, Goals

Wellness Pearls

Wellness Pearls

Surf the Urges

Quiet Courage and Learning How to be Silent

The Habit Loop

The ANTI New Years Resolution

No Crying on the Yacht

Deploying Strenghts

Consult your Teenage Self

Divide and Conquer: 2,504 Diet Books

Independence Day, Everyday

Escape the Willpower Trap

Energy Goes Where the Energy Flows

Drop the Boiling Pot

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