What kind of mark are you leaving behind you as you push ahead? If you’re acting like a typical macho manager, intent on short-term profits and quick returns for shareholders, you’ll likely be thrusting your way through your environment using a combination of high velocity, fierce determination and brute force. What kind of wake will that leave behind you?

When your attachment to anything, however benign in itself, becomes too powerful, it increases the chance that a corresponding fear will corrode your life and destroy your relationships from within. Understanding this can help you stay balanced and avoid destroying your chances of getting the very things you value most.

Peter Vajda offers thoughts on worry and how to deal with it. Do worry and fear control much of your thinking and activity? The way to eliminate worry and move past fear is not to resist it or try to think your way out of it. Worrying and being fearful is a choice. Releasing fear and worry is also a choice. If you can do the one, you can do the other.

There are many joys in the journey through life, but plenty of pitfalls too. Sometimes the most difficult blockages to overcome are the ones inside your own head. The way you think, and what you tell yourself about events and people, can stop you cold on the journey towards happiness.

Nina Simosko says no one should allow themselves to fall prey to comfortable misery. Not only does doing so make for many unhappy days in your own job and life, it serves no productive purpose for your company either. Change your thinking about what satisfies you. Don’t settle for what is mediocre, however comfortable it seems to be.

If you want to transform your life, the first step is to re-establish conscious choice in place of all those automatic, habitual decisions. This will give you back your ability to find fresh options to replace worn out habits; permanently increase your opportunities to learn; and free you from repeating past mistakes.

Peter Vajda tells you how to ‘tune in’ to greater creativity and understanding and create the condition needed to gain the insights you may have been seeking.

Peter Vajda reflects on how much does the ‘I’m right—you’re wrong’ dynamic plays out in people’s everyday interactions: and what good things might happen if you sometimes let go of that nagging need to be proved right all the time.

An inspiring piece from Helen Major about how to face up to—and ultimately overcome—the frightening failure of economic and political institutions that is currently threatening our future.

Peter Vajda reflects on those who have spent many years, dollars and energy on primping their outside, when what they’re looking for is on the inside. At mid-life, many people are no longer experiencing fun, peace or joy. They’re at the point where they are starting to feel a need to explore their legacy, many for the first time. What do you want out of life? What qualities do you want your life to represent most? Why not take a moment to consider where to go next?