By Harry Petsanis and Donna McCance “Life changes when… Your courage overcomes your fears. Your actions overcome your words. Your accountability overcomes your excuses. Your strength overcomes your pain. Your individuality overcomes your conformity." -Harry Petsanis CHANGE The reason our lives don’t change is because our mindset and perspective don’t change. Our focus is a problem, compounded by the fact that we have a hard time concentrating, and when we do, it’s often on t

By Harry Petsanis and Donna McCance Motivation Motivation is the reason someone has for their action or behavior. It involves the emotional, biological, cognitive, and social forces that drive human behavior. There are different types of motivation, depending on the reasons. Motivation is goal oriented. It’s why we do things. Motivation can be either extrinsic or intrinsic. Extrinsic motivation is behavior that is driven by external sources, such as rewards for our beha

By Harry Petsanis and Donna McCance One of our biggest failings as individuals in a society is we refuse to listen. We often use the time when someone else is talking to formulate what we want to say, instead of listening to what people are telling us. We also refuse to listen to the words that people are saying because we are listening through our own filter, which causes us to twist and contort what people are saying to align with how we’re thinking or what we want to hea

By Harry Petsanis and Donna McCance Mistakes are an incorrect or unintended result caused by flawed judgment, biases, not paying attention, miscalculating, ignorance, laziness, stress, taking “short cuts,” overconfidence, hurrying, carelessness, inaccurate expectations, poor reasoning, failing to recognize something, not thinking things through, not caring, and trying something unknown or new. Mistakes can be avoided when the focus is put on the process prior to the mistake h

By Harry Petsanis and Donna McCance Emotional Suppression When you suppress something, you are intentionally trying to prevent something from happening. Suppression is a conscious effort of deliberately pushing unwanted thoughts from your awareness. Unwanted thoughts can include emotions, desires, painful memories, and things that may cause you anxiety. Suppression is also an intentional effort of people trying to prevent others from developing, expressing, or acting out the