Inspirational Perspective

The comfort zone is not comfortable. It is just familiar. And familiar pain can become a prison so well designed that the person inside it stops noticing the bars. In part five of the Survival Mechanism series, Linal...

Relief feels like progress. It is not. In part four of the Survival Mechanism series, Linal Harris makes one of the most important distinctions in the entire series: the difference between feeling better and actually...

You can be protected or you can be powerful. You cannot be both at the same time. In part three of the Survival Mechanism series, Linal Harris names the seven protection patterns that most people mistake for their...

Fear is at the nucleus of everything. Not the loud, obvious kind. The quiet kind that fires in your body before your brain even catches up, the kind that feels completely real even when you are perfectly safe. In part...

That is the question at the center of this episode, and the answer is not what most people expect. It is not laziness. It is not hopelessness. It is not a lack of intelligence or willpower. It is the survival mechanism...

67% of Americans making over $100,000 a year are living paycheck to paycheck. Linal Harris was one of them. A Fortune 500 VP bringing in over a quarter million dollars in compensation, with unpaid bills, excessive...

In the opening episode of the Survival Mechanism series, Linal Harris does something rare for a public figure. He uses himself as the case study. Drawing from two of the four pillars of life, health and well-being and...

The same mouth that speaks fear can speak faith. The same vocal cords that plant anxiety can plant abundance. The question is what story is living underneath your words right now, and whether it is working for you or...

In part four of the series How to Think Clearly in the Age of Fear, Manipulation, and Economic Pressure, Linal Harris takes on compromising words, the soft, soothing, seductive phrases that do not sound dangerous at...

In part three of the series How to Think Clearly in the Age of Fear, Manipulation, and Economic Pressure, Linal Harris turns the lens inward and takes on convenient words, the phrases we use to protect ourselves, soften...

In part two of the series How to Think Clearly in the Age of Fear, Manipulation, and Economic Pressure, Linal Harris moves from careless words to crafted words, the kind used by media, headlines, and public narratives...

Words are the reason people are struggling. Words are the reason fear and anxiety have taken hold. And in 1946, the study of word origins was quietly removed from education systems worldwide. In this episode, Linal...

There is a kind of identity theft that never shows up on a credit report. It does not steal your money. It steals your confidence, your purpose, your peace, and your connection to who the creator made you to be. In this...

Most people don’t ruin their lives in one dramatic moment. They do it slowly, through a series of small, short-sighted, fear-based decisions that compound quietly until one day they look back and wonder how they got...

<p>In 2014, Linal Harris was on a tiny plane over Papua New Guinea, hitting some of the worst turbulence of his life. The fishermen who flew this route regularly were terrified. The other passengers were gripping their...