by Tom Searcy | Nov 1, 2023 | Happiness, Health, Kindness, Self Awareness, Self-awareness
It should be no surprise to anyone when I say we have an “ANGER” problem here is the United States. Yes, it is a world-wide phenomenon. There is significant conflict in every area of our society. Not only is there actual shooting conflict among countries,...
by Tom Searcy | Sep 1, 2023 | Happiness, Self Awareness, Self-awareness
I’ve talked at different times about what makes people genuinely happy, and in this article I will cover four major traits that perpetually happy people possess. Please listen to the end, because this material is important. Scan the nightly news and cable news...
by Tom Searcy | Aug 10, 2023 | Content, Creativity, Decision Making, Effective Leadership, Happiness, Success
In his book, The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt speaks to the research of John Bowlby and Harry Harlow indicating that maximizing a child’s thriving and development depends almost totally on two things: feeling completely safe in the environment, while having...
by Tom Searcy | Jul 28, 2023 | Emotional Intellegence, Empower, Kindness
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by Tom Searcy | Jul 11, 2023 | Emotional Intellegence, Financial Security, Freedom, Success
I have been trying to post an article about every week, but leading a five-week course titled, “Living a Life of Happiness and Peace of Mind” has been a major and very satisfying interruption. The class was excellent, participants were engaged and enthusiastic. In the...
by Tom Searcy | May 5, 2023 | Decision Making, Effective Leadership, Emotional Intellegence, Freedom, Happiness, Problem Solving, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Self-mastery, Success
A potential client contacted me, reluctantly. This man was an officer in a medium-sized business. His career had been marked by success, but at the time he felt anything but successful. He felt his career and personal life were collapsing around him. ...
by Tom Searcy | Apr 14, 2023 | Values
https://youtu.be/_jscm9r5MX0 Identifying and Prioritizing our values I have spoken and written about values before, more than once. Strongly held, positive values are at the very foundation for creating happy, healthy, satisfied people. Happy, healthy,...
by Tom Searcy | Apr 7, 2023 | Happiness, Health, Success
https://youtu.be/jYXSwJNm5BI In 1938 Harvard created a study to determine if it was possible to identify primary indicators of happiness, health, personal satisfaction, success, and long life. What an immense undertaking! The leadership expected this study to be...
by Tom Searcy | Apr 4, 2023 | Empower, Happiness
We’ve previously blogged about happiness and personal empowerment. Let’s dig into how we become truly happy and empowered people in 2023. We talked last time about the confusion that exists about what truly makes us happy. We said that “connecting”, with oneself...
by Tom Searcy | Mar 7, 2023 | Content, Happiness
Most of us have goals in life, even if many of those goals are unspoken. A successful career, good relationships, a healthy family, financial security. The one thing we can all agree on is “We all want to be happy”. In recent surveys only 14% of Americans respond that...
by Tom Searcy | Feb 7, 2023 | Emotional Intellegence, Happiness, Relationships, Self Awareness, Self-awareness
Hello friends, I’m Tom Searcy. I’ve thought long and hard about creating this blog. The experience I shared in the accompanying recording, the effective coaching I recommended for my friend with his son is something I couldn’t have done 25 years ago. In fact, I would...
by Tom Searcy | Dec 20, 2021 | Happiness, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Success
Can anyone deny the truth of this statement? Since the beginning of 2020, everything seems turned upside down. How we shop, how we work, how we worship, how we socialize, how we spend our money, how we view healthcare, how we view (trust) our government,...
by Tom Searcy | Dec 15, 2021 | Content, Happiness, Health, Kindness
What if you and your family, all your close friends, your colleagues at work, your congregation at church, everyone you socialized with were fully contented with life. To describe them more completely, what if they were always satisfied, appreciative, grateful,...
by Tom Searcy | Nov 15, 2021 | Effective Leadership, Freedom, Happiness, Kindness, Self Awareness, Self-awareness
After writing for over a decade about the importance that developing self-awareness has in every phase of our life…in business, personally, with our health, it is clear few grasp this truth. Some have no concept of what it means; some recognize its benefits yet don’t...
by Tom Searcy | Nov 5, 2021 | Freedom, Happiness, Health, Overcoming Fear, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Success
Today’s economic, political, and social uproar, along with the COVID scare have our country in a real panic. The resultant stress and frustration certainly won’t end tomorrow, and who knows what’s on the other side of this turmoil. The big question is, who will come...
by Tom Searcy | Oct 21, 2021 | Freedom, Happiness, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Stress
Over the last decade I’ve focused my blog articles on both the benefits of building high self-awareness and the reasons building high self-awareness is so important. I think the current malaise we see in the fracture of our institutions and our society in general...
by Tom Searcy | Sep 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
After almost two years of COVID created government bailouts, coupled with decades of lackluster economic growth and U.S. Government deficit spending, we find our country with a staggering national debt level of $28.5 trillion. Who can even fathom that number, and how...
by Tom Searcy | Sep 17, 2021 | Anxiety, Stress
It is an oft repeated theme…change is uncomfortable, and massive change is incredibly difficult for we humans. It causes all sorts of stress, anxiety and anger resulting in unpredictable behaviors throughout society. For the last two decades we’ve seen an unpleasant...
by Tom Searcy | Aug 23, 2021 | Self Awareness, Self-awareness
Years ago I read about experiments scientists conducted to understand how individual grains of sand, dropped one at a time, create both stable and unstable patterns. Precise modeling programs on computers now save the drudgery of dropping individual grains of...
by Tom Searcy | Aug 13, 2021 | Anxiety, Freedom, Happiness, Overcoming Fear, Stress
FEAR: Alarm or a strong unpleasant negative emotion caused by anticipation, perception, or awareness of a dangerous or detrimental experience. There is nothing new about our being reminded that FEAR itself is a far greater problem than all the potentially dangerous or...
by Tom Searcy | Aug 6, 2021 | Self Awareness, Self-awareness
Our coaching work focuses on supporting our clients in building self-awareness. Do you wonder why it is such a buzz-word in business today? I see dozens of articles every month speaking to the desperate need for greater self-awareness and the...
by Tom Searcy | Jul 16, 2021 | Emotional Intellegence, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Stress, Success, Uncategorized
Almost every business in the United States, large or small, has a serious problem. Most leaders don’t realize it, or don’t know have to fix it. The problem is that the U.S. economic engine is struggling. Our annual economic growth from the 1950’s...
by Tom Searcy | Jun 3, 2021 | Creativity, Emotional Intellegence, Happiness, Self Awareness, Self-awareness
And so we will. Health, Affluence and Happiness are within your grasp. That’s quite a mouthful, because good health, affluence and genuine happiness are very elusive right now. In this short article we will remind you how quickly and easily this can happen. OK, it...
by Tom Searcy | May 25, 2021 | Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Success
Now isn’t that a profound statement! What do I mean? I have been writing, speaking, and coaching around the subject of developing self-awareness for over a decade now. Although reports about the success of coaching show almost a ten-to-one return on...
by Tom Searcy | May 7, 2021 | Freedom, Self Awareness, Self-awareness
This little piece of magic is as counter-intuitive as anything I’ve ever come across. Some successful people will scoff at this, yet many utilize this concept faithfully. I ask that you simply be open to the message and stay curious. If you are intent on...
by Tom Searcy | May 6, 2021 | Decision Making, Effective Leadership, Freedom, Happiness, Health, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Success
I am committed to helping fully capable people achieve lasting, positive change in behavior allowing them to rise to peak success in their life. What holds you back? Here is a short list of common behavioral blocks to success: ImpatienceNot listening to...
by Tom Searcy | Apr 27, 2021 | Freedom, Happiness, Self Awareness, Self-awareness
Would you like to be that person of unique influence, not because of what you do but simply because of who you are? That person of authority, not due to position, but due to character? That person who so easily accomplishes what you intend, without pushing, coercing,...
by Tom Searcy | Mar 30, 2021 | Creativity, Emotional Intellegence, Freedom, Happiness, Kindness, Relationships, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Success
At the core of every want, every goal, every perceived need is our BELIEF that getting it will make us feel good. When we feel good, we say we are HAPPY! So, what makes us feel good? Getting a raise at work can make us feel good, as can getting a new car...
by Tom Searcy | Mar 2, 2021 | Decision Making, Freedom, Happiness, Health, Self Awareness, Self-awareness
For most businesses in the United States 2020 was a terrible year. COVID-19 closed many businesses permanently and many others will cope with a new business model they don’t recognize. What “full recovery” from the pandemic will look like is anyone’s guess. Last year...
by Tom Searcy | Jan 18, 2021 | Emotional Intellegence, Freedom, Happiness, Health, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Self-mastery, Uncategorized
The new year arrives and everything feels fresh, filled with opportunity and growth. The new year always feels to me like collectively we are awarded a “mulligan”, a chance to correct and “do over” those areas where we fell short in 2020. Unless this is...
by Tom Searcy | Dec 11, 2020 | Emotional Intellegence, Financial Security, Self-awareness, Uncategorized
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by Tom Searcy | Nov 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Recently I was driving to the store with my grandson, Charlie. We were just “shooting the breeze” when he asked me a great question. “Grandpa, if you can have one wish, what would it be?” I thought about that for a minute and answered, “I think I would want for...
by Tom Searcy | Oct 22, 2020 | Creativity, Emotional Intellegence, Happiness, Self Awareness, Self-awareness
Regardless of your status in life, whether you are deep into a demanding career, retired and serving as a volunteer for a worthwhile community organization, or simply caring for a loved one, your mindset will determine the success and satisfaction you receive from...
by Tom Searcy | Oct 21, 2020 | Emotional Intellegence, Happiness, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Uncategorized
While we talk about high self-awareness constantly, this subject doesn’t generally elicit great enthusiasm. Ask yourself the question, “Have I ever thought about how great it would be to be highly self-aware?” Yet, people desperately want to feel they have control...
by Tom Searcy | Oct 2, 2020 | Self Awareness, Self-awareness
I talk frequently about characteristics of both high self-awareness and the lack of it. Most of my articles not only speak to the critical need for high self-awareness, but also tips about developing those traits. In this article I’d like to touch on the Two...
by Tom Searcy | Sep 21, 2020 | Freedom, Happiness, Relationships, Self Awareness, Self-awareness
Last week I was pleased to be invited to present a program to the membership of Michiana SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management). By the way, you might be interested to know that SHRM National Headquarters has named Michiana SHRM as one of the top 100...
by Tom Searcy | Aug 25, 2020 | Happiness, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Stress, Success
There is plenty to be concerned about right now, in this time in our history. You know I write consistently of the benefits derived from growing your self-awareness. Now is the time to take this seriously. In the coming decades, those with high...
by Tom Searcy | Jun 16, 2020 | Creativity
Winston Churchill stated during WWII, “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted every alternative.” I’m not sure he had the right to judge the United States’ actions, since he had proved himself generally incompetent in...
by Tom Searcy | May 15, 2020 | Anxiety, Health, Overcoming Fear
We are certainly in fast-changing times. We humans don’t handle rapid change very well even when the change is generally positive. When change is exacerbated by some scary event or conflict, the Iraq War after 9/11, or a sickness spreading unabated across...
by Tom Searcy | May 12, 2020 | Effective Leadership, Financial Security, Freedom, Happiness, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Success
For generations, the most important dreams of Americans have been health, wealth and happiness. That covers a lot of territory. What else do Americans desperately want? Along with the three we have mentioned, freedom to pursue our desires, start and run our own...
by Jamila Blue | Apr 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Listening to reports from around the globe, I am shocked at the current situation. Millions of Americans are in deep financial trouble after missing only two paychecks. The “economic miracle” of the last few years boasted by government leaders is not all that. The...
by Tom Searcy | Apr 10, 2020 | Happiness, Health, Self Awareness, Self-awareness
As explained in our previous articles, COVID-19 is something to take seriously. Even when new cases level off and decline, there is evidence that a second wave could hit. We can’t exercise social distance and self-isolation for very long without experiencing dangerous...
by Tom Searcy | Apr 9, 2020 | Happiness, Health, Self Awareness
As explained in our previous article COVID-19 is a serious bug that focuses primarily on the elderly, especially those with weakened immune systems. Regardless of our age or health concerns, here are a couple of very simple steps you can take to help further improve...
by Tom Searcy | Apr 7, 2020 | Happiness, Overcoming Fear, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Uncategorized
COVID-19 has developed into a very scary bug that has dire consequences for a minority of those who have contracted. Some people in their 40’s have become pretty sick with it, and for those whose health is already compromised, especially the elderly, it has proven...
by Tom Searcy | Apr 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
As I look around, beyond the current upsetting events, it’s easy to see our nation is in a frustrating search for meaning. There are popular books published about this (“Man’s Search For Meaning” is just one example), so I hardly feel I’m stepping out into...
by Tom Searcy | Apr 2, 2020 | Overcoming Fear, Problem Solving, Self Awareness, Self-awareness
We are hearing that frequently because of this COVID-19 problem, and to an extent that statement reflects an unpleasant truth. Here are some of the likely longer-term challenges we will see: When the “all clear” is sounded, many will still be nervous about the virus...
by Tom Searcy | Apr 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
If you ever want to gain clarity about your basic nature, why you are effective at times, and why you aren’t at other times, begin paying close attention to your behaviors. Our behaviors are the outward expression of our inner emotional and mental landscape. Research...
by Tom Searcy | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Today we have a health crisis, COVID-19, and it requires our full attention for our safety and that of our family, friends and community. Yet, this crisis will be resolved relatively soon, probably within months, and our lives will return to normal. Ebola,...
by Tom Searcy | Mar 25, 2020 | Kindness
During this current time of challenge we are hearing from many sources how to take care of ourselves most effectively: Stay home as much as possible and avoid close contact with others as much as possible, wash our hands frequently and avoid touching our face, etc....
by Tom Searcy | Mar 20, 2020 | Happiness, Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Uncategorized
If you ever want to gain clarity about your basic nature, why you are effective at times, and why you aren’t at other times, begin paying close attention to your behaviors. Our behaviors are the outward expression of our inner emotional and mental landscape. Research...
by Tom Searcy | Mar 18, 2020 | Courtesy
There is nothing to cheer about from the COVID-19 crisis now striking world-wide, and increasing its march across the United States. We have many questions, and very few answers. Seldom have we experienced such wide-spread disruption in our lives. There is some...
by Tom Searcy | Feb 21, 2020 | Self Awareness, Self-awareness, Success
Until quite recently, defining self-awareness, a primary pillar of emotional intelligence, was much easier than gathering the resources to develop self-awareness. Being self-aware means a person in cognizant of his inner emotional landscape, including their beliefs,...
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