Setting goals can help you become successful, but they can also prevent you from achieving your full potential. Goals can be a powerful driving force – as you’ve probably heard ad nauseam. What may be more surprising is that they can also be a significant limiting factor. Beware!

Have you ever wondered, how much you can alter an object before it loses its identity and becomes a new, different object? Can something change, yet remain the original? What about you as a person? Can you really always keep “being yourself”? Or at what point do you become “someone else” if you keep changing – independently of whether you progress or decline?

There is a strong relationship between the language you speak, the words you know, and your ability to think. There are theories claiming that if a word or concept does not exist in your language, you will not be able to grasp the concept entirely! Could this possibly be true? And if so, can we break this tie?

It’s that time of the year again: the calendar changes “significantly” (we get one full new digit after all!) and suddenly we feel the urge to make a dramatic change, to finally start moving, to face our most dreaded challenges. Yet this is inevitably the first step towards an almost unavoidable failure. Why you ask? Let’s take a closer look…

Whenever a relationship doesn’t work – whether you can’t stand one another, or simply don’t feel the reciprocal need for each other’s company – there is one key ingredient missing: appreciation. Sounds too simple? Let’s see…

Hierarchies have been part of our lives for ages and will not go away anytime soon. All of us have most likely experienced both sides of the spectrum several times in our lives: sometimes you are the one in charge, other times it is someone else. Sometimes you are the one giving orders or commanding, other times you are the one who must follow orders or who is taking commands. In either situation, the way you feel is not determined by the “what” – the task at hand –, but much more by the “how” – the way this given task is assigned. So, ask yourself, when it is your turn to take charge, do you command or do you empower?

The famous and brilliant philosopher Seneca claimed that “it is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult”. This is without a doubt a beautiful and very inspiring quote, but is it also true?