Tag: Change Your Life

• Goals Not Resolutions

  I dislike New Year’s resolutions. How many times have you made a resolution that ended in a fiery disaster? It is not your fault. Resolutions are a form of “cultural procrastination,” according to Timothy Pychyl, a professor of psychology at Carleton University in Canada. Humans assume willpower is a character trait you’re either born with…

  Lori O’Gara

  January 16, 2023

  Dreams, Indie Author, Lifestyle, Purpose, Transpicuous Life Tips

  Adulting, Authenticity, Change Your Life, Choices, Courage, Determination, Dreams, Emotional Intelligence, Everyday Life, Happiness In Life, Life Goals, Life Lessons, Motivation, Priorities, Self Discipline, Self Improvement, Self-awareness, Time, Truth, Weight Loss

• Who Are You?

  How do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as a writer, artist, worker, manager, 9 to 5-er, housewife? How you perceive yourself has a great influence in your daily success. For the longest time I didn’t call myself an author or even a writer. I was just a wife and mom who liked to…

  Lori O’Gara

  November 4, 2018

  Lifestyle

  Change Your Life, Courage, Finding Yourself, Relationships, Self-awareness

• Changes are Mandatory

  The first day of my fiftieth year started out at the doctor’s office hearing test results. I heard what many of you have heard or will hear. Change your diet, get more exercise, cut down on the wine and rest. I was told in no uncertain terms that change is mandatory. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I…

  Lori O’Gara

  March 27, 2018

  Lifestyle

  Change Your Life, Diet, Getting Older, Getting Perspective, Health

• Skunk Fallacy?

  I miss understood when I heard someone say sunk cost fallacy. Skunk what? I was soon corrected. I found out that there are no cute black and white fuzzy critters involved at all. Sunk Cost Fallacy is is the tendency for humans to continue investing in something that clearly isn’t working in the hope that…

  Lori O’Gara

  February 16, 2018

  Lifestyle

  Change Your Life, Fallacy, Just Do It, Life Lessons, Self Respect