Bipolar Excellence

Bipolar often snacks on the more intelligent among us. Troy Steven wrote "Breaking Bipolar" to outline his illness and how he controls it.

Bipolar author Lynn Rae was told by 2 psychiatrists that she'd never work full time again. Wrong!

Bipolar dream builders: know when to kill a stalled dream and how to make a good one pay.

Don't despair because you don't fit in. Find the right group first. Then fit in with those fine folks instead.

Bipolar prone people can be more successful across a wider swath of fields than others. If we can develop the required self awareness.

Bipolar prone people can often suffer from their need to apply complexity to the process of dream building.

The point of life is to find a way to use your skills, in a way that brings you joy, as you help those you care about most.

Understand what you're missing that might be driving bipolar and use that knowledge to drive success in your passion project.

Ignore your inner voice, the one seeking harmony within and without, and madness results.

Welcome to my world! LOL. It's great finding your purpose. But how to make it pay?

Always remember: you are the one who got you to now, here. All your power is hiding in how you respond!

Bipolar's got a bit too much control still. So start building your dream minimally. Be easy on yourself.

As a former bipolar person with some PTSD, bad life events can trigger things in me long dormant. But I turn these things into positives.

This is the most powerful yet most frustrating part of bipolar, outside of the illness itself. We are forced to MAKE the job in which we can then excel.

We bipolar types have to protect ourselves from ourselves when promoting a project or seeking partners.

You've learned all you can about self help. Class is over. Time to ACT! Your bipolar manic mind might struggle with the switch.

If you haven't yet found your true purpose, you're free to kid yourself into thinking "this is just the way things are."

If you already love what you do, you're close to winning it all! Now just pick one area to market your worth and max it out!

No man is an island. Even us lone wolves. Find out how to ask for help and from whom.

Having faith in yourself is key. But your bipolar past can shape what that means to others. Our past visions of grandeur colors things.

Do you hate your job or hate being an employee? I'll help you escape either way.

Bipolar or not, undertaking a new project launches the Hero's Journey, testing your fortitude and commitment. Just begin.

Discovering what people want is often akin to doing a treasure hunt blindfolded.

Not getting paid what I'm worth stems from not living life the way I want. Being bipolar prone just exaggerates these struggles.

If you quit on your passion project, then you're guaranteed to fail. The winners kept going. So keep going!

The deeper your self-awareness, the closer and faster you're going to get to pullin' off, whatever your grand vision is.

High functioning bipolar people can help many others due to what they've learned to survive and the perspectives gained from it all.

To live your dreams and find your purpose, get your thoughts and YOURSELF out of your head!

Okay. So good news. Your past mistakes are going to be the very reason, the meat and potatoes of how you help people.

Whatever you think and feel and believe, is what's creating your life. Life isn't happening to you. You're happening to life.

One of the best things one can do, is wonder "is this it?" (Hint: It isn't!) Nurture that wonder. It'll save your soul.

When you start changing your life, you'll find your bipolar improves. but other preferred parts of your life can get painfully altered too.

Bipolar people easily make connections between wildly dissimilar items, creating a cohesive whole.

Some gurus think their way is the only way, and it might suit you. But when they're inflexible like that, I wonder.

It's so fantastic being us, yet so hard. The future beckons as the present seemingly holds us back

Starting a dream when you're broke demands passion, ingenuity, and a willingness to serve.

Sometimes a little mania is needed to carry a project to completion.

Change is hard, particularly as a paradigm shift. We crave homeostasis.

OK. Hobbies into businesses? Generally, no. You could. But should you?

Trying to fit in is a death sentence for high functioning, bipolar people.

I shared my entire system with a dear friend whose world changed my life.

Karen was a very nice, kind hearted lady and very supportive of my mission.

Dr. Larry battled addictions and won. We met through our publisher.

My 2nd trip to WKNY. I was wired. More manic than I realized at the time.

My 1st radio interview! Very exciting and scary! Post bipolar about 2 years.

"Regular" is boring, nightmarish, pointless. We need weird, odd, intense.