The Power of Prime

Stress

Seven Reasons and Five Ways to Get Out of Your Bubble

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on December 4, 2024

We create psychological, emotional, social, and physical spaces to feel safe and protected.

We create psychological, emotional, social, and physical spaces to feel safe and protected.

Self-Help

8 Steps to Making Peace With Your Past Self

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on July 19, 2024

How do you make peace with your past self so you can live a life of meaning, satisfaction, and joy with the latest version of you?

How do you make peace with your past self so you can live a life of meaning, satisfaction, and joy with the latest version of you?

Self-Help

Five Ways to Live a Balanced Life

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on May 13, 2024

Life balance is within reach for most of us if we are determined, intentional, and patient. Here's how.

Life balance is within reach for most of us if we are determined, intentional, and patient. Here's how.

Unconscious

10 Bad Roads We All Take (and How to Take the Good Road)

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on April 16, 2024

“Fork in the road” is a metaphor that illustrates that people can choose how they think, their emotions, how they behave, and how they act on and react to their world.

“Fork in the road” is a metaphor that illustrates that people can choose how they think, their emotions, how they behave, and how they act on and react to their world.

Self-Help

3 Essential “Selves” That Positively Propel Your Life

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on April 2, 2024

Your ability to know your true self, identify your values, and feel deep emotions will help you arrive at the destination of being your true self and thriving.

Your ability to know your true self, identify your values, and feel deep emotions will help you arrive at the destination of being your true self and thriving.

Self-Help

5 Steps to a Meaningful, Satisfying, and Joyful Life

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on March 19, 2024

Who do you want to be, and what kind of life do you want to lead? What steps can we take to find meaning, satisfaction, and joy in our lives?”

Who do you want to be, and what kind of life do you want to lead? What steps can we take to find meaning, satisfaction, and joy in our lives?”

Relationships

8 Alignments for a Healthy Relationship

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on January 27, 2024

Partners need to be aligned for a nourishing relationship.

Partners need to be aligned for a nourishing relationship.

Self-Help

5 Steps to Not Be a Victim of Your Upbringing or Culture

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on January 8, 2024

We didn’t get to choose the conditions of our early lives. But we can make choices about the life we want to lead now.

We didn’t get to choose the conditions of our early lives. But we can make choices about the life we want to lead now.

Self-Help

3 Cs to Achieve Positive Life Change

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on December 18, 2023

Much of the way we think, the emotions we feel, the behaviors we engage in, and the way we interact with others are governed by unconscious forces. But change is possible.

Much of the way we think, the emotions we feel, the behaviors we engage in, and the way we interact with others are governed by unconscious forces. But change is possible.

Adverse Childhood Experiences

When Parents and Children’s Emotional Styles Align

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on November 7, 2023

Youngsters today don't reach the severity of a diagnosable psychiatric disorder, but they all seem to suffer from what I call "neuroses of the privileged."

Youngsters today don't reach the severity of a diagnosable psychiatric disorder, but they all seem to suffer from what I call "neuroses of the privileged."

Relationships

8 Perceptions That Nurture Your Relationships

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on October 4, 2023

It’s natural to feel bad when you get rejected, but the intensity of those feelings will depend on how much you personalize the rejection.

It’s natural to feel bad when you get rejected, but the intensity of those feelings will depend on how much you personalize the rejection.

Relationships

11 Perceptions That Sabotage Your Relationships

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on September 7, 2023

Self-destructive perceptions create a self-fulfilling prophecy that prevents you from nurturing healthy relationships and affirms the low regard you hold for yourself.

Self-destructive perceptions create a self-fulfilling prophecy that prevents you from nurturing healthy relationships and affirms the low regard you hold for yourself.

Self-Help

7 Signs of Positive Life Change

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on August 18, 2023

To help you take the sometimes-nebulous concept of positive life change and turn it into something more tangible, watch for these tell-tale clues.

To help you take the sometimes-nebulous concept of positive life change and turn it into something more tangible, watch for these tell-tale clues.

Self-Help

Seven Ways to Embrace Your Humanity

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on July 26, 2023

In rejecting our humanity, however unintended it might be, we are also denying all that makes being human so meaningful, inspiring, gratifying, and joyful.

In rejecting our humanity, however unintended it might be, we are also denying all that makes being human so meaningful, inspiring, gratifying, and joyful.

Self-Esteem

15 Ways to Stop Self-Comparison

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on July 10, 2023

We humans are comparison creatures. We are constantly measuring ourselves against other people. It affects how we view and evaluate ourselves, and how we interact with our world.

We humans are comparison creatures. We are constantly measuring ourselves against other people. It affects how we view and evaluate ourselves, and how we interact with our world.

Happiness

What Happiness Really Is (and How to Find It)

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on June 23, 2023

One reason why so many people are unable to find that feeling that we all seek is that they don’t truly understand what happiness really is and how to experience it.

One reason why so many people are unable to find that feeling that we all seek is that they don’t truly understand what happiness really is and how to experience it.

Motivation

The Power of Patience for Positive Life Change

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on June 7, 2023

Patience is essential to make meaningful life changes because, without patience, you won’t commit the time and energy necessary to allow those changes to emerge.

Patience is essential to make meaningful life changes because, without patience, you won’t commit the time and energy necessary to allow those changes to emerge.

Motivation

Accept, Don’t Resist, Your Negativity

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on May 22, 2023

Accepting, rather than resisting your negativity is the best thing to do whenever anything unhelpful enters your mind.

Accepting, rather than resisting your negativity is the best thing to do whenever anything unhelpful enters your mind.

Motivation

8 "P"s for Positive Life Change

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on May 16, 2023

What could be more meaningful, rewarding, and joyful than letting go of past limitations and becoming the best version of yourself?

What could be more meaningful, rewarding, and joyful than letting go of past limitations and becoming the best version of yourself?

Persuasion

What Reality Are You Living In?

Jim Taylor Ph.D. on April 7, 2023

Old reality, what we developed in childhood influences our current reality, that is, how we think, the emotions we experience, and how we interact with others.

Old reality, what we developed in childhood influences our current reality, that is, how we think, the emotions we experience, and how we interact with others.