Gratitude is the general acknowledgment of the good things in our lives and feeling thankful to have them. It usually involves recognizing the extent to which a very small number of things in our lives, often things that have no monetary value, contribute to our overall happiness and well-being. Gratitude and your health Dr. Robert…

In simple terms, we can think of morality as what we think is right and wrong or good or bad. Some people derive their morality from a religion or a philosophy while others develop their own morality based on their personal observations and experience in life. The word is often used interchangeably with morality, although,…

For many of us, the search for our true selves is a lifelong journey of self-discovery. We meet different people from different backgrounds and cultures, put ourselves in different situations and circumstances, and see life as one big trial and error experiment that is designed to teach us more about ourselves. Each experience brings us…

In the MPI journey, personal development is critical. Personal development is entirely congruent with self-discovery and self-discovery is entirely congruent with the purpose of life. In the MPI philosophy (as described in Chapter 1), personal development occurs through the repetitive cycle of learning followed by action. Every time we learn something new, we have made…

We all feel the need to achieve. We want to master a skill and show other people something that we think is a significant accomplishment. It’s our way of proving that we are useful. The more useful we appear to be in the eyes of other people the more we think people will want to…

Anthropologist, Helen Fisher, is a research professor and member of the Center for human evolutionary studies in the Department of anthropology at Rutgers University. Her research is focused on the evolution and future of human sex, love and marriage and gender differences in the brain and behavior. She says that her research have led her…

In 1985, when the General Social Survey polled Americans on the number of confidants they had in their lives, the most common response was three. In 2004, the same survey indicated that the most common response was zero. After completing research for this book I suggest that we pay as much attention to the state…

Many of the survival components of the MPI life wall can be obtained with money and, if you live in the developed world, it can be very difficult to obtain them without money. In the meantime, there are other things that money can buy that go beyond survival. Some of these are things that can…

Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist that studies the sleep cycles of the brain. He says (8.3) that, statistically, the average human spends 36% of their life asleep. Margaret Thatcher once famously said, “sleep is for wimps”. It’s as if sleep is an illness or an enemy.  The brain does not shut down while sleeping….