Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,'… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Even if you can be the world's best at one thing, you'll be the world's worst at something else. Supermodels make pathetic… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I suggest Substituting Inedible Nurturance, or SIN. Don't replace overeating with virtuous work or exercise; instead, make a list of things you… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
When I tell a woman you really need to quit your soul-sucking job, she goes home, and she can tell her husband,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Everything I've ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this - I cannot believe people keep paying me to say… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees, thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re revolutionizing physics or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
