Why We Act Impulsively: 2-Step Process for Never Losing Your Cool

Very often in life, we say something we don't mean. We react in anger. We make an impulsive decision, an unconscious choice, and later regret it. With a bigger, broader perspective, we see the error in our ways and feel a sense of regret or shame about it.And we want to understand why we did this. We want to prevent it from happening again. So we have to understand the…

How to Go From Reacting to Reflecting

Q: Dear Todd, What Are Your Thoughts On Negativity?TODD ANSWERS: The thing about negative thoughts is that they are neither good nor bad, but clues to something going on below the surface.Like anything else that's undesirable, when negative thoughts arise, we can either get mad or sad about it. Or, we can be totally fine about it, accept it, investigate it joyfully, and be at peace with it. It's all…