Video: Our Behavior Is The Result Of Our Thoughts
Every thought has the power to push us to act a certain way. For example, if you believe you do not have what it takes to achieve your goals, you will not take the necessary action to make your goals a reality. If you believe that you do in…
Video: Sources of Self-Efficacy
Self-efficacy is the knowing that you are capable of achieving a specific goal. The term is also used to describe the confident knowing that you are capable of meeting all the challenges that come your way. The reason self-efficacy is an emphasis…
Video: Self-Empowerment through Conscious Awareness and Choice
It is important to identify your personal values and goals. Once you have spent quality time identifying what values and goals matter to you most, the next step is the following mindfulness practice: Throughout the day, form a habit of asking…
Video: Live Your Life by Your Values
Self-empowerment and self-efficacy are developed by living your life according to your personal values and goals.
A goal is something you desire to achieve. This can involve acquiring a material thing—a new car, for example—or it can…
Video: Self-Efficacy, Wellbeing, and Mastery—My Personal Experience
Self-efficacy is the belief that you can succeed in the life challenges presented to you. The greater your self-efficacy, the greater your chances of succeeding in everything you attempt to accomplish. What you believe about yourself makes a…
Video: In Your Own Hands: A Course in Self-Empowerment
Since January of 2015, I have been teaching a class in the Continuing Education Department at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California. Since January of 2016, I have been co-teaching the class with a colleague. The class makes it easier…
Video: Social Support Reduces the Odds of Developing Cancer
In a very famous epidemiology study, one of the most referenced of its kind because of its impressive sample size, UC Berkeley researchers Dr. Lisa Berkman and Dr. Leonard Syme studied seven thousand residents of Alameda County, California.…
Video: Social Support Reduces the Odds of Developing Cancer
In a substantial study of three thousand breast cancer patients, all of whom were nurses, completed in 2006, researchers found that women without close friends had a mortality rate of four times that of women with a close circle of friends.
In…
Q & A with Dr. B.
The purpose of this website, my book, and the Community Education course I teach at the College of Marin, is to teach people how to live a vibrant, meaningful life through the cultivation of self-empowerment and self-efficacy. In this weekly…