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When Following Your Intuition is Bad Advice

by Joel SchmidtAnxiety, Healthy Thinking, Mindfulness, Worry April 9, 2025April 9, 2025No Comments

When Following Your Intuition is Bad Advice: I recently saw a post on Instagram that said something like this: “Follow your gut. Trust your intuition. If something feels wrong, it is wrong.” Well-intended advice, I’m sure. I suppose there’s something to it—and there are definitely times when we might indeed “go with our gut.” More than a handful of times since starting a business, I’ve begun some sort of professional business relationship with someone where …

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Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset: Are you Limiting Yourself?

by Joel SchmidtHealthy Thinking December 2, 2019December 2, 2019No Comments

One of the things I’ve found to be so powerful as it relates to capacity for success and positive growth in people’s lives is this intangible idea of mindset…so much of what limits us (or allows us to be able to propel ourselves forward in life) has to do with our thinking alone. Whether not we can do the things we want to do in our lives has more to do with whether or not …

Recognizing and Challenging Distorted Thoughts

by Joel SchmidtHealthy Thinking December 21, 2018July 16, 2019No Comments

News Flash: Life is hard. All of the “positive thinking” in the world won’t change the fact that we’re bound to be faced with difficulties that make it hard to feel good at times. The reality is – that along with life – comes stress, hardship, loss, having to deal with our own limitations/weaknesses, injustice, and being forced to deal with less-than-pleasant people. It’s hard enough to navigate life without falling into the trap of …